Evan Esar Quotes
The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening.
Evan Esar
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I watched the first moon landing at a bar in Paducah, Kentucky, a fact worth mentioning only because I still remember how suddenly silence descended on this raucous place when Neil Armstrong started coming down that ladder.
Pamela Sargent
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In my mind's eye, Shakespeare is a huge, hot sea-beast, with fire in his veins and ice on his claws and inscrutable eyes, who looks like an inchoate hump under the encrustations of live barnacle-commentaries, limpets and trailing weeds.
A. S. Byatt
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If a man has lost a leg or an eye, he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self - himself - he cannot know it, because he is no longer there to know it.
Oliver Sacks
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If you decide you want to be treated good, and you treat someone else good, or you want to learn something, it's information. It's getting the right, good information.
Ornette Coleman
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To be creative means to connect. It's to abolish the gap between the body, the mind and the soul, between science and art, between fiction and nonfiction.
Nawal El Saadawi
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The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.
D. H. Lawrence
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I really just sat down to write. I mean, I did what most writers do when something happens that's overwhelming, fascinating, moving, all of that.
Patti Davis
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Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.
Kelsey Grammer
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Where Americans might coo over a child's most inane remark to boost his confidence, middle-class French parents teach their kids to be concise and amusing, to keep everyone listening.
Pamela Druckerman
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I think oysters are overrated, and I don't love the texture.
Kevin Dillon
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Know what is in your heart. But definitely go to school and learn as much as you can, and if wrestling is still what you want, find a good wrestling school and kind of learn as much information about it as you can. If I did it, this tiny thing, anyone can do it.
AJ Lee
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The only thing worse than being on the wrong side of an argument is to be on the right side with no one listening.
Evan Esar
