Evan Esar Quotes

A girl never cares who casts the first stone at her -- as long as it's a diamond.

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• In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.

  

  Garrett Neff
  • College
  • Beginning
  • Summer

• We believe that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • World
  • Believe
  • Economy

• NASA should start thinking about this planet.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Thinking
  • Start
  • NASA

• Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • People
  • Country
  • Why

• If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.

  

  Ted Turner
  • Perfect
  • Humility
  • Only

• Actually, the language in Shakespeare is wonderfully musical. You need to hear the music to connect with the words.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Music
  • Words
  • Language

• Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.

  

  Dale Dauten
  • Time
  • Success
  • Failure

• I am a firm believer that a good plot makes for a fun enough read, but it's not what binds us. If we don't care about the characters, we won't care - not in a lasting way - about what's happening to them.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Care

• Harry Potter to me is a bore. His talent arrives as a gift; he's chosen. Who can identify with that? But Hermione - she's working harder than anyone, she's half outsider, right? Half Muggle. She shouldn't be there at all. It's so unfair that Harry's the star of the books, given how hard she worked to get her powers.

  

  Ira Glass
  • She
  • Me
  • Star

• With TV, the pace is so fast, the scripts are coming at you, the directors are firing things at you, it's breathtaking.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • You
  • Fast
  • Pace

• Do I love the road? Honestly? No - but it's how I earn my living. I also don't have the blues, like it's some kind of fever. The blues is my job. It's what I do.

  

  B. B. King
  • Love
  • Job
  • Road

• Everywhere the sky is blue. There are a multitude of cuisines and dishes. I think of them as the languages and dialects of food.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Food
  • Sky
  • Blue

• I have been accused of things that I have never done. I have been called a perpetrator of incidents while I was actually a peacemaker. I really don't know why. Yuvraj Singh isn't a party animal; he is just singled out. I don't know why.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Done
  • Why
  • Know

• Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Hurt

• The Pledge of Allegiance reflects the truth that faith in God has played a significant role in America since the days of the founding of our country.

  

  Randy Neugebauer
  • God
  • Country
  • Truth

• I must have good genes from my parents because I feel no slowdown of energy, enthusiasm or even memory.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Good
  • Parents
  • Energy

• I've never wanted to be famous. That has never been a part of any dream. I do remember being little and thinking I might want to be a singer. But not a famous singer - just, like, a singer.

  

  Cam
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Dream

• In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Never
  • Mistake
  • Politics

• I mean... directing is a holy, unpleasant experience, to be perfectly honest.

  

  Taylor Sheridan
  • Experience
  • Mean
  • Honest

• I, Joan Crawford, I believe in the dollar. Everything I earn, I spend.

  

  Joan Crawford
  • Believe

• To be honest, I'm a bit of a snob now; give me a Four Seasons anywhere in the world and I'm happy. Also, they've just opened a Ritz-Carlton in County Wicklow, Ireland, which is stunning and has great views.

  

  Joe Elliott Def Leppard
  • World
  • Great
  • Happy

• Women need each other. Be there for each other, and don't feel threatened.

  

  Christine Flores
  • Women

• It's frightening to think that you mark your children merely by being yourself. It seems unfair. You can't assume the responsibility for everything you do --or don't do.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Children
  • Responsibility
  • Assume

• A girl never cares who casts the first stone at her -- as long as it's a diamond.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Girl
  • Diamond
  • Cares