Evan Esar Quotes

There would be no population explosion if people who are trying to keep the wolf from the door wouldn't let the stork fly in through the window.

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• Stand with anybody that stands right, stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Wrong
  • Stand
  • Him

• That word, fan, has always kind of bothered me.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Always
  • Word
  • Fan

• I don't care about how much other actors get.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Care
  • Other
  • How

• Success is so bad for everybody, period. Especially a certain kind of success, when people practically give up their identity. They forget who they are, how they are.

  

  Jack Dunphy
  • People
  • Up
  • Bad

• I want to get within myself and write. I really, really want to write.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Write

• I would not attack the faith of a heathen without being sure I had a better one to put in its place.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Faith
  • Better
  • Place

• If it's great stuff, the people who consume it are nourished. It's a positive force.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • People
  • Great
  • Positive

• I don't have friends, and it's hard for me to make new friends. Right now, the people that are in my life are the people that I work with.

  

  Questlove
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• One of the things that I love to do is travel around the world and look at archaeological sites. Because archaeology gives us an opportunity to study past civilizations, and see where they succeeded and where they failed. Use science to, you know, work backwards and say, 'Well, really, what were they thinking?'

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • World
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Can it be fancied that Deity ever vindictivelyMade in his image a mannikin merely to madden it?

  

  Edgar Allan Poe

• That should probably be written:  no !@#$%^&*:@!semicolon

  

  Larry Wall

• Heart on her lips, and soul within her eyes, Soft as her clime, and sunny as her skies.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Eyes

• During the course of many years of investigation into the plant life of the world, creating new forms, modifying old ones, adapting others to new conditions, and blending still others, I have constantly been impressed with the similarity between the organization and development of plant and human life.

  

  Luther Burbank
  • Life
  • World
  • Organization

• Quand les riches se font la guerre, ce sont les pauvres qui meurent.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre

• You know, last season I didn't do anything on the show, so I was frustrated. I mean, don't get me wrong: It's nice to get a paycheck. But if you don't really do anything it's not very satisfying.

  

  Lorraine Bracco
  • Nice

• I'd had to grow up pretty quickly, and going back to drama school gave me a chance to be with people my own age and do normal things, like going to a pub on a Friday night and just hanging out.

  

  Jessie Buckley
  • People
  • Up
  • School

• I didn't realize - you think you are doing a movie but then you realize it's a Columbia Pictures movie so it's probably going to have some publicity. Then you see a billboard and it's like, 'God! I'm on a billboard!' It doesn't hit all at once, it kind of unravels itself and it's still unraveling.

  

  Chris Evans
  • God
  • Movie

• When I was a child, I saw my father diving to the deepest point in the ocean with the U.S. Navy.

  

  Bertrand Piccard
  • Father
  • Ocean

• No matter what, I still was gonna make music, even if it was on a small scale. Even if it was just for me.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Music
  • Me
  • Make

• I believe we should appeal to people at the higher levels.

  

  Burt Lancaster
  • People
  • Believe

• I'm probably the only one in the world you can name that's worked with Billie Holiday, Louie Armstrong, Ella, Duke, Miles, Dizzy, Ray Charles, Aretha, Michael Jackson, rappers. 'Fly Me to the Moon' was played on the moon by Buzz Aldrin. Sinatra. Paul Simon. Tony Bennett. I'm the only one.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Moon
  • Fly

• [Government] is apprehended, not as a committee of citizens chosen to carry on the communal business of the whole population, but as a separate and autonomous corporation, mainly devoted to exploiting the population for the benefit of its own members.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Business
  • Government
  • Citizens

• There would be no population explosion if people who are trying to keep the wolf from the door wouldn't let the stork fly in through the window.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Fly
  • Population
  • Explosion