Evan Esar Quotes

The first requisite for a good cup of coffee in the morning is to get your wife out of bed.

Evan Esar

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• We're spirited and spiritual... and fun follows us around.

  

  Naomi Judd
  • Fun
  • Spiritual
  • Around

• I don't really think about the runs too much. I mean, if we get, like, a five-run lead, then I'll start to pitch according to that.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Think
  • Start
  • Lead

• I faced quite a few challenging times, and in front of those, I was more positive than some people not facing those conditions. I'm actually of the belief now that it is that struggle that offers you that open-hearted hope.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • People
  • Hope
  • Positive

• Yidaki didgeridoo has been used in every part of Australian regional culture, all around the country. It's become a message stick for the survival of those people, for aboriginal people and aboriginal culture.

  

  Xavier Rudd
  • People
  • Country
  • Culture

• America always pivots between collective responsibility and the idea that the individual can pull himself up by his bootstraps.

  

  Randi Weingarten
  • Up
  • America
  • Responsibility

• Books are like imprisoned souls till someone takes them down from a shelf and frees them.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Like
  • Down
  • Someone

• Age, like distance lends a double charm.

  

  Oliver Herford
  • Age
  • Like
  • Distance

• Essentially, if you decide to sell a widget using BitPay, and you sell the widget for $100, in Bitcoin you get $100. And so it doesn't matter what the price does the next minute or the next hour.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • You
  • Matter
  • Decide

• I have learned that delivering the best possible palliative care to children is vital, providing children and their families with a place of support, care and enhancement at a time of great need is simply life-changing.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.

  

  Val Guest
  • Character
  • Said
  • Bond

• We have been fighting for solutions that will spur economic growth and create jobs for all Americans because we have been listening to what small business owners and employees have been telling us all along.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Business
  • Small
  • Fighting

• Chemotherapy isn't easy. I felt very fortunate I wouldn't have to go through that.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Easy
  • Very
  • Through

• I was just about 6 weeks old when we moved to Detroit.

  

  Eddie Floyd
  • Old
  • Just
  • Detroit

• It's very important to know when you're in a pissing match. And it's very important to get out of it as quickly as possible.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Important

• I want to shape the TV screen canvas

  

  Nam June Paik
  • Canvas

• He put his hand over mine, the one with the dead cigarette crumbled in it, and gave me a wonderful smile. 'Easy, child, easy. I’m only teasing you. Don’t think I disapprove for Christ’s sake. Live it up, I say. Don’t say no to life, Gorce, you’re only young once.' We were on last name terms, Keevil and I.

  

  Elaine Dundy
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• Men and women must be educated, in a great degree, by the opinions and manners of the society they live in.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • Great
  • Men
  • Live

• Is privacy about government security agents decrypting your e-mail and then kicking down the front door with their jackboots? Or is it about telemarketers interrupting your supper with cold calls? It depends. Mainly, of course, it depends on whether you live in a totalitarian or a free society.

  

  James Gleick
  • Live
  • Society
  • Free

• One of my favorite indicators of the near-term trend for the economy is auto sales, since folks tend to buy a car when they are feeling optimistic about their financial circumstances.

  

  Kevin Hassett
  • Feeling
  • Car
  • Financial

• In the early 1990s we witnessed the emergence of a revitalized contemporary Chinese art world that began as a reaction against the government-approved Social Realist style. Zhang Xiaogang, Huang Yong Ping, Ai WeiWei, Yue Minjun, and Wang Guangyi were among the first group of artists to establish a movement that became known as Cynical Realism.

  

  Arne Glimcher
  • World
  • Art
  • Style

• What happens to children and families today who sit around the television? They're watching made-up stories. It's not their experience and it's not truly shared. A human being must learn at a very young age how to connect to other human beings. Our technologies are driving us apart, only connecting us in terms of information, not in terms of emotions.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Up
  • Children
  • Experience

• All Pretences of foretelling by Astrology, are Deceits; for this manifest Reason, because the Wise and Learned, who can only judge whether there be any Truth in this Science, do all unanimously agree to laugh at and despise it; and none but the poor ignorant Vulgar give it any Credit.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Reason
  • Judge
  • Learned

• A husband and wife ought to continue so long united as they love each other. Any law which should bind them to cohabitation for one moment after the decay of their affection, would be a most intolerable tyranny, and the most unworthy of toleration.

  

  Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Long
  • Law
  • Wife

• The first requisite for a good cup of coffee in the morning is to get your wife out of bed.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Wife
  • Cup of Coffee
  • Requisite