Evan Esar Quotes

More diets start in dress shops than in doctors' offices.

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• 'On the Road' is another one of those, a film in which the audience has a very clear idea of who they think your character is, so you know you are asking for it. But that's the challenge.

  

  Sam Riley
  • Character
  • Challenge
  • Road

• I do tend to be an analyzer. I'm an old English major from way back, so I do have fun tearing apart texts and trying to find the hidden secrets and the subtexts in there.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Trying
  • Fun
  • English

• There is no easy fix or youth unemployment. Partnership between the public and private sectors can make a big difference.

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • Easy
  • Youth
  • Economics

• I probably wouldn't be a good spokesman for an electric car, because I'll still get on a private jet, and one flight on a private jet undoes all my electric-car good deeds.

  

  George Clooney
  • Car
  • Deeds
  • Flight

• I think the draw quotient has always been high in world championship matches because the amount of effort people put into neutralizing each other's openings. It's just now with computers that it has reached a new level.

  

  Viswanathan Anand
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Man
  • Phoenix
  • Syphilis

• The path of progress is seldom smooth. New things are often found hard to do. Our fathers found them so. We find them so. But are we not made better for the effort and scarifice?

  

  William McKinley
  • Father
  • Effort
  • Progress

• I'm very lucky in that I still experience highs and lows. And I think those lows are important. But I am not totally paralyzed, and it keeps me from just complete state of paralysis - and emotionally and really kind of almost physically.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Lucky

• You can go into neighborhoods in the United States where people dress a certain way because they don't want to be out of touch, where boys wear pants down to their knees, which nobody has compelled them to do but they pick up the cultural norms, or where girls are improperly dressed by my eyes, but that's what they see in the media.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • United States
  • Dress
  • Neighborhoods

• Political correctness may make for smooth edges, but it does little for the imagination and nothing for the arts. Writers work best when they are exploring at the outer limits of what is traditional, acceptable, or conventional.

  

  Amanda Foreman
  • Writers
  • Limits
  • Acceptable

• What has worked for me is therapy in conjunction with nutritionist who specializes in eating disorders that I see every two weeks.

  

  Carre Otis
  • Worked
  • Therapy
  • Nutritionist

• I am never happy with what I do, so I try not to watch stuff that is filmed with me in it because I am always like, 'Oh, I could have done that a little bit better,' or, 'I could have done that differently - that riff could have been a little better.'

  

  Josh Young
  • Stuff
  • Watch
  • Filmed

• Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies, and feminine democracies give way to tyranny.

  

  Aristotle
  • Tyranny
  • Feminine
  • Masculine

• A man or a woman who serves the country with all his or her heart stands on par with the tallest Congress-man.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Country
  • Congressman
  • Serves

• I've been offered big money to promote machines. And high-protein diets, when that was really popular. There was always some new powder or diet plan that somebody wanted to put my name on.

  

  Richard Simmons
  • Money
  • Name
  • Promote

• People should go about their daily lives, to work, to live, to travel, to shop, to do the things people did in the same way as they did them before 11 September.

  

  Tony Blair
  • People
  • War
  • September

• In the Christian world, as you remember, Christianity is in the 21st century, Islam is in the 15th century. I don't mean to say that Islam is backward; I mean to say that there are certain experiences that it hasn't gone through. Christianity had the great religious wars of the 17th century. Islam, fortunately for the Muslims, did not have that. Christianity worked out a system of toleration. Islam was always more tolerant of Christendom.

  

  Bernard Lewis
  • Remember
  • Experiences
  • Toleration

• More diets start in dress shops than in doctors' offices.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Shops
  • Diets
  • Offices