Evan Esar Quotes

Experience is a great teacher, and sometimes a pretty teacher is a great experience.

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• Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Time
  • Children
  • Help

• If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.

  

  Zakk Wylde Black Label Society
  • Night
  • Wall
  • Write

• McCarthy emerged in the person of Senator Russ Feingold of Wisconsin.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Person
  • Senator
  • Wisconsin

• I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• It sounds depressing, but I think when you truly love someone, you'll never stop loving them.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Think
  • For Him
  • Loving

• I don't like the bullying, do-one-over style of comedy. It's so cheap.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • Comedy
  • Style
  • Bullying

• I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • Time
  • Work
  • Mind

• If you talk about Cabernet and Merlot-based value between $10 and $25, I will tell you that Bordeaux is the best value in the world.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • World
  • Best
  • Value

• I've actually had a copilot come out of the cockpit on a trip from L.A. to New York and ask me about Charles Manson.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Me
  • New
  • New York

• I never lose touch. If you let me tell it, I'll tell you I never got my just due and my respect for being one of the greats in hip-hop, and because of that, the fire never burned out. There's more and more of a need for me to succeed or take the legacy a step further, and that's what it is.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Respect
  • Fire
  • Legacy

• Study after study has demonstrated that people are better off financially, healthier, happier if they are married, and indeed, I repeat, if they are formally married as opposed to simply living together.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • People
  • Together
  • Study

• I think when you get past your second album, it all becomes something of a routine. So you have to struggle against that, find a way of making what you do sound fresh and new each time.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Time
  • Past
  • Struggle

• I want to live happily in a world I don't understand.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • World
  • Live

• To disappear into deep water or to disappear toward a far horizon, to become part of depth of infinity, such is the destiny of man that finds its image in the destiny of water.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Water
  • Deep
  • Destiny

• We cannot help but see the person in one way or other and place our constructions or interpretations on 'his' behaviour, as soon as we are in a relationship with him.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Help
  • Relationship

• I never sang for a Grammy, for money, for fame. That's my whole purpose for singing: for people, for the fans.

  

  Mavis Staples
  • People
  • Money
  • Purpose

• Knowledge is power.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• I was very dramatic - very, like, 'It's never going to happen. My life is over at 16 because I'm not already famous. I'm not going to get my record deal. I'm not going to be able to sing for a living.'

  

  Trisha Yearwood
  • Life
  • Famous

• My cheat days are bread, bread, bread, and cookies. I love bread!

  

  Jessie James Decker

• As life’s agents, it’s on our shoulders.

  

  Elon Musk
  • Life

• I wasn't losing my focus but I was getting tired of focusing. What I was focusing on was becoming too routine, too ritual, not something that was interesting, new and exciting.

  

  Picabo Street
  • Interesting
  • Focus
  • Tired

• But the experience that I had, which was basically just feeling loved and taken care of in a room full of thousands of people I didn't know, seemed to be a pretty strong sign that what I was doing was a good thing.

  

  Mariel Hemingway
  • People
  • Good
  • Experience

• Experience is a great teacher, and sometimes a pretty teacher is a great experience.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Experience
  • Great Teacher