Evan Esar Quotes

The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that never gets tired talking.

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• I went to a woman for advice about how to be in business, but I learned a great deal from men.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Great
  • Men
  • Business

• There's only two givens with choosing acting as a profession: one is you will always be unemployed, always, and it doesn't matter how much money you make, you're still always going to be unemployed; and that you have no power.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Money
  • Power
  • Acting

• I used to not like being called a 'woman architect': I'm an architect, not just a woman architect. Guys used to tap me on the head and say, 'You are okay for a girl.' But I see the incredible amount of need from other women for reassurance that it could be done, so I don't mind that at all.

  

  Zaha Hadid
  • Women
  • Mind
  • Done

• The people that are fans of animation are really the people that are keeping the art form of animation alive. If you like cartoons, support the cartoons.

  

  Kari Wahlgren
  • People
  • Art
  • Support

• The difference between art about death and actual death is that one's a celebration and the other's a dull fact.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Art
  • Death
  • Celebration

• I founded Wang Laboratories . . . to show that Chinese could excel at things other than running laundries and restaurants.

  

  An Wang
  • Running
  • Chinese
  • Laboratory

• Ballet dancers are a self-chosen elite. To survive and surmount years of disciplinary preparation and seasons of even more arduous performance requires rigid determination and almost mindless self-abnegation. One other factor is difficult to predetermine: without a certain admixture of hysteria - sometimes masking as self-obsession, sometimes even counterfeiting incipient madness - performers, at once acrobats, artists, and animals, make little public impression.

  

  Lincoln Kirstein
  • Determination
  • Preparation
  • Ballet

• It is the hard-boiled employer, not the soft-hearted species, that incites most of our strikes and does most ot endanger the harmonious progress of democracy.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • Democracy
  • Progress

• If there were a people consisting of gods, they would be governed democratically. So perfect a government is not suitable to men.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • People
  • Men
  • Perfect

• Purple as tulips in May, mauve into lush velvet, purple as the stain blackberries leave on the lips, on the hands, the purple of ripe grapes sunlit and warm as flesh....

  

  Marge Piercy
  • May
  • Purple
  • Velvet

• Jesus is all the world to me my life, my joy, my all. He is my strength from day to day Without Him, I would fall.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • Life
  • World
  • Fall

• The harder they work, the more fortunate they become.

  

  Wally Amos
  • Work
  • Fortunate
  • Harder

• God must have loved Afghans because he made them so beautiful.

  

  Alexander the Great
  • God
  • Loved
  • Afghans

• If unemployment could be brought down to say 2 percent at the cost of an assured steady rate of inflation of 10 percent per year, or even 20 percent, this would be a good bargain.

  

  William Vickrey
  • Cost
  • Rate
  • Inflation

• My friend, judge not me, Thou seest I judge not thee; Betwixt the stirrop and the ground, Mercy I askt, mercy I found.

  

  William Camden
  • Found
  • Judging
  • Judgment

• Shake me off, then, sir--push me away; for I'll not leave you of my own accord.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Leave
  • Accord
  • Shake

• Every thing in human character goes to wreck, under the reign of procrastination, while prompt action gives to all things a corresponding and proportional life and energy.

  

  William Alcott
  • Character
  • Action
  • Humans

• The tongue is the only muscle in the human body that never gets tired talking.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Tongue
  • Muscle
  • Human Body