Evan Esar Quotes

It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law.

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• I'm not afraid to call a wine that tastes like Skittles or green peppers mixed with orange marmalade. I'll say, 'It tastes like chicken.' I mean, that's not what people think of when they think of wine, but that's what it tastes like to me and it hits home.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • People
  • Home
  • Green

• I have always enjoyed the company of women and have formed deep and long-lasting friendships with many of them.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Long
  • Women
  • Deep

• When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Me

• Jazz is progressive, and it's alive.

  

  Kat Edmonson
  • Alive
  • Jazz
  • Progressive

• I never thought of myself as a songwriter. I was just an artist writing songs, and they just happened to get placed.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Writing
  • Myself
  • Thought

• Acting to me is real life - I don't act.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Life
  • Real
  • Me

• People know me for up – tempo songs because of my hits.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • People
  • Know
  • Songs

• For some days, people thought that India was shaking. But there are always tremors when a great tree falls.

  

  Rajiv Gandhi
  • People
  • Great
  • Thought

• You can look at someone and get to know their music and say, 'This is someone who I want to work with.'

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • Work
  • Music
  • Want

• Hollywood, that whole industry, is a lot like a really small town. You bump into the same people all the time. I think Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon can be played with anyone and everyone in Hollywood.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Time
  • Small

• That's why we're doing this, to defend our traditions a little. I don't have anything against it (Halloween), but it's not our tradition.

  

  Fernando Flores
  • Why
  • Doing
  • Tradition

• Age could not wither nor custom stale her infinite monotony: in fact, neither Age nor Custom could do anything (as they said, their voices rising) with the American novelist Gertrude Johnson.

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • American
  • Age

• We talk about issues, but I'm not his adviser, I'm his wife... I find that it's really best not to give your spouse a lot of advice. I don't want a lot of advice from him.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Wife
  • Advice

• A garden, you know, is a very usual refuge of a disappointed politician. Accordingly, I have purchased a few acres about nine miles from town, have built a house, and am cultivating a garden.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • House
  • Garden

• I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.

  

  David Herbert Donald
  • Today
  • Presidential

• When I was at AOL, I was always on the web media side while much of the company was focused on the ISP business. We focused on big categories like celebrities and sports, and we created brands around that category like AOL Celebrities, AOL Movies and Fanhouse.

  

  Jim Bankoff
  • Business
  • Sports

• The people of the FBI sacrifice much for their country, and I am proud to lead this organization of dedicated agents, analysts, and professional staff.

  

  James Comey
  • People
  • Country
  • Proud

• I know what to do to go for it and just take the game in my hands.

  

  Angelique Kerber
  • Game

• My obsession with time informs my poetry so completely it is hard for me to summarize it. We want time to pass, for new things to happen to us, we want to hold on to certain moments, we don't want our lives to end.

  

  John Barton
  • Time
  • Moments
  • Poetry

• I am gone into the fields To take what this sweet hour yields; - Reflection, you may come to-morrow, Sit by the fireside with Sorrow. - You with the unpaid bill, Despair, - You, tiresome verse-reciter, Care, - I will pay you in the grave, - Death will listen to your stave.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • May
  • Death
  • Sweet

• The mind has an outlook which transcends the natural law by which it functions.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Mind
  • Law

• I've always had an interest in broadcast journalism and the law. So it's nice that I can combine the two.

  

  Kimberly Guilfoyle
  • Law
  • Nice

• I see good personal financial management as setting - and keeping - a budget.

  

  John Rampton
  • Good
  • Financial
  • Management

• It takes far more courage to violate a custom than a law.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Law
  • Courage
  • Violate