Evan Esar Quotes

The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter.

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• Our fresh technical resources have furthered the disintegration of solid masses of masonry into slender piers, with consequent far-reaching economies in bulk, space, weight, and haulage.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Space
  • Resources
  • Weight

• The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Time
  • Best

• Anti-religious sneers are a hallmark of perpetual adolescents.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Religious
  • Religion
  • Hallmark

• I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Time
  • Good
  • Writing

• When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Writing
  • Want
  • Stop

• Making the record was tons of fun, the most fun I've ever had.

  

  Iris DeMent
  • Fun
  • Most
  • Ever

• Any acting is a stretch of the imagination. That's your job. Acting is truth in imaginary circumstances. Acting with green screen or a motion capture stage, you're striving for absolute truth in absolutely imaginary circumstances.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Job
  • Truth
  • Imagination

• Fashion is killing women's body image of themselves.

  

  Zac Posen
  • Women
  • Fashion
  • Body

• Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

  

  Jack Prelutsky
  • Writing
  • Opportunity
  • Imagination

• People who know me know that there's a light-hearted side, humour... But you could easily say I am cheeky.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Light
  • Humour
  • Hearted

• A society that has more justice is a society that needs less charity.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • Society
  • Justice
  • Charity

• I started out as a singer and a musician, and I was taught that your job is just to get out of the way of Brahms or Arthur Miller or Shakespeare and convey the brilliance that they created.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Job
  • Way
  • Singer

• You may think using Google's great, but I still think it's terrible.

  

  Larry Page
  • Great
  • May
  • Think

• My readers are surprisingly mixed. I have conservative readers - for instance, women with headscarves - but also many liberal, leftist, feminist, nihilist, environmentalist, and secularist readers. Next to those are mystics, agnostics, Kurds, Turks, Alevis, Sunnis, gays, housewives, and businesswomen.

  

  Elif Safak
  • Women
  • Feminist

• I want to party in space because I make alien music.

  

  David Guetta
  • Music
  • Party
  • Space

• My parents were not musical, and they were not effervescent people; everything was very quiet. The music that I played was loud; it used to drive them up the wall. My father died, and that was a tragedy for everybody, but suddenly I didn't have anybody to stop me from doing what I wanted to do.

  

  Don McLean
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• The fact is that our kids aren't reading books - or frankly, much of anything lately. Schools are under funded, some schools even closing their libraries. Parents have to realize that it's their job, and not the school's job, to get kids into the habit of reading for fun.

  

  James Patterson
  • School
  • Job
  • Kids

• There's nothing particularly wrong with being more pessimistic than optimistic. Optimism is broad-based, non-detail-oriented thinking; pessimism is detail-oriented thinking.

  

  David Rakoff
  • Thinking
  • Optimistic

• The long-term policies that will be most effective all have to do with investment: investing in ourselves, investing in opportunities, creating good schools, and creating situations where people can acquire skills that enable them to be successful.

  

  David Autor
  • People
  • Good
  • Long

• My three Ps: passion, patience, perseverance. You have to do this if you've got to be a filmmaker.

  

  Robert Wise
  • Patience
  • Perseverance
  • Filmmaker

• Republicans have never been good at public relations.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Good
  • Never
  • Been

• The writing process isn't something I'm in love with. I'm an illustrator who writes.

  

  Chris Riddell
  • Writing

• By coincidence, this particular tiny show on earth that consists entirely of me talking about sports on NPR is also folding its tent flaps this May of 2017. Yes, this is my swansong, my farewell, my last hurrah. Adieu, adios, arrivederci, auf wiedersehen.

  

  Frank Deford
  • May
  • Earth
  • Sports

• The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Writing
  • Success
  • Secret