Evan Esar Quotes

The only way to cure an egotist from bragging is by surgery--amputation at the neck.

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• Acting in film, you know, I hear all the time, people say 'You did so much better than I thought you would.' So there's an added element of surprise in film, different than in music.

  

  T.I.
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• My label in Toronto was 'Stand Pat' and I think that was a fair assessment. I tried to be patient, but if a trade came along - big or small - that I thought should be made, I would make it.

  

  Pat Gillick
  • Small
  • Thought
  • Stand

• No one thought the Mayweather-Pacquiao fight would happen, but I had patience.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Thought
  • Fight
  • Patience

• One of the things I've done on my shows is tell stories and do interviews.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Done
  • Things
  • Tell

• Title IX came along and changed a lot of things for the better, but nevertheless, it meant that money became more important.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Important
  • Money
  • Better

• I have a son, who is my heart. A wonderful young man, daring and loving and strong and kind.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Heart
  • Son
  • Young Man

• Moralists have no place in an art gallery.

  

  Han Suyin
  • Art
  • Place
  • Moralists

• One of the first production deals I signed, the guy wanted my name to be Minaj and I fought him tooth and nail. But he convinced me. I've always hated it.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Guy
  • Firsts
  • Deals

• Heartbreak taught me that you can rise from the ashes and get over .

  

  Beverly Johnson
  • Anything
  • Heartbreak

• We just cracked. We had this game. We're not supposed to lose that one. I would rather get blown out.

  

  Allen Iverson
  • Game
  • Supposed
  • Blown-out

• Honestly, I wasn't that girl in high school who people spread rumors about.

  

  Josie Loren
  • People
  • School
  • Girl

• I had it in my mind: to be confident, and to keep saying that until the confidence appeared. But I took it too far. Confidence did help make me champion, but, man, I took it to a whole different level. I was a megalomaniac. I was not humble and it eventually came back on me. So I want my kids to know, keep humbleness and kindness in their hearts. It will prevail.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Confidence
  • Champion
  • Hearts

• One thinking it is right to speak all things, whether the word is fit for speech or unutterable.

  

  Sophocles
  • Thinking
  • Speech
  • Unutterable

• It worked well because Don Murray didn't want to be on Knots anymore.

  

  William Devane
  • Want
  • Wells
  • Knots

• Think about it: Heart disease and diabetes, which account for more deaths in the U.S. and worldwide than everything else combined, are completely preventable by making comprehensive lifestyle changes. Without drugs or surgery.

  

  Dean Ornish
  • Disease
  • Lifestyle
  • Surgery

• Hopeless, filthy, degraded, superstitious with the craven superstition which made them the easy prey of their unscrupulous clergy and left them wholly sensual and stupid; as animals, without the animals' instinctive joy of life and fearlessness of the morrow ; with no ambitions for themselves or the children who turned to curse them for having brought them into such a world; with no time to dream or love, no time for the tenderness which makes life, life indeed — they toiled for a few cruel years because they feared to die, and died because they feared to live. Such were the people Turgot was sent to redeem.

  

  Evelyn Beatrice Hall
  • Children
  • Animals
  • Hopeless

• The only way to cure an egotist from bragging is by surgery--amputation at the neck.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Cure
  • Surgery
  • Amputations