Evan Esar Quotes

A special skill, like speaking several languages, or keeping your mouth shut in one.

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• Thankfully, President Obama has stood firmly behind women's health care issues by supporting coverage for contraception and reaffirming commitment to organizations like Planned Parenthood.

  

  Felicity Huffman
  • Women
  • Health
  • Commitment

• The best way to change it is to do it. Right? And then after a while you become it, and it's easy.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • Change
  • Best
  • Easy

• It is not the first duty of the novelist to provide blueprints for insurrection, or uplifting tales of successful resistance for the benefit of the opposition. The naming of what is there is what is important.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • Important
  • Successful
  • First

• Since my residence at Tippecanoe, we have endeavored to level all distinctions, to destroy village chiefs, by whom all mischiefs are done. It is they who sell the land to the Americans.

  

  Tecumseh
  • Done
  • Land
  • Village

• Even though I hadn't read a word of it, I grew up hating 'Moby-Dick.'

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • Up
  • Word
  • Read

• I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.

  

  Ziyi Zhang
  • Great
  • Think
  • Chinese

• I study to learn, to be an educated person.

  

  Gary Sinise
  • Study
  • Learn
  • Educated

• There are quantities of human beings, but there are many more faces, for each person has several.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Person
  • Human
  • Human Beings

• Investors have finally woken up to the fact that there is something called the 'Russian Internet' into which you can invest.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • Up
  • You
  • Internet

• I have lots of clothes that I don't wear because I'm bad for impulse buying. They sit in my cupboard looking forlorn, but if I haven't worn something for a couple of months, I usually realise that it would be much better off in one of my friends' wardrobes.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Friends
  • Bad
  • Couple

• To read a paper book is another experience: you can do it on a ship, on the branch of a tree, on your bed, even if there is a blackout.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Experience
  • Book
  • Tree

• I was born in the Bronx, and then my father moved us to the country at an early age.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Country
  • Age
  • Father

• We crave instant success these days. If you are a really good sprinter and long jumper, you don't want to spend two or three years on a whole new set of events. You're used to doing well and it's difficult to give that up.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • Up
  • Good
  • Long

• I'll need every ounce that I have to drive it through. Film and TV require that energy. Sometimes fight scenes can be pretty intense. When I was shooting 'Heaven' it was truly guerrilla film-making.

  

  Karl Urban
  • Pretty
  • Energy
  • Heaven

• The 'People's Budget' rewards hard work and invests in our country. It ensures that everyone has an opportunity to get a good education, find a good job, live in a safe and secure home, put food on the table, have affordable health care, save for retirement, and maybe have a little left over.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• In my early days I was a sepia Hedy Lamarr. Now I'm black and a woman, singing my own way.

  

  Lena Horne
  • Black
  • Way
  • Woman

• When our daughter was born, a light went on for me - there was more to life than what I was doing. It felt like being famous for being a paint salesman. It wasn't the dream I was sold on. I'd had enough of it.

  

  Rick Astley
  • Life
  • Dream
  • Light

• I feel like if we're not running, we're basically disrespecting our bodies. When you're running, you're really using your body for what it's meant to do.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • You
  • Running
  • Feel

• I often attribute my screenwriting to journalism because they drill in the who, what, when, where and why - but we really need to land on that why. That's what I've been exploring in my writing for many years and trying to get better at.

  

  Mara Brock Akil
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Why

• It was only long after the ceremony that we learned why we got married in the first place.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • Long
  • Why
  • Marriage

• In man or woman, but far most in man, And most of all in man that ministers, And serves the altar, in my soul I loathe All affectation. 'Tis my perfect scorn: Object of my implacable disgust.

  

  William Cowper
  • Men
  • Soul
  • Perfect

• I have learned to interface - what I think would be the contemporary term - with various different lexicons, and people speak very different languages. I've learned to speak in a lot of tongues, and I can live with the bellicose language of some fervent, fire-breathing Christians, sure.

  

  Bono U2
  • Learned
  • Christians
  • Languages

• A special skill, like speaking several languages, or keeping your mouth shut in one.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Skill
  • Mouth
  • Languages