Evan Esar Quotes

A bore finds it easy to start talking, and even easier to get others to stop listening.

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• The world is too violent right now.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • World
  • Right
  • Now

• On the night of the winter solstice, when the dead get their annual reprieve, they go up to the 24-hour donut shop and wedding chapel to get hitched. Marriage is a good and proper pursuit for dead people. For a while, it relieves the dark, shuddering loneliness of the afterlife.

  

  Rachel Swirsky
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • People
  • Friends
  • History

• Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Good
  • Think
  • Me

• It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play.

  

  Bart Starr
  • Game
  • Me
  • Week

• God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Peace
  • Happiness

• My full name is E.G. Marshall. I am known by no other.

  

  E. G. Marshall
  • Name
  • Marshall

• You know, I've never done karaoke, ever. It makes me nervous - I think it's the lack of the guitar and just a microphone.

  

  Gary Clark Jr.
  • Done
  • Think
  • Me

• I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.

  

  Adam Brody
  • People
  • Work
  • Intelligent

• In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.

  

  Barry Watson
  • Why
  • Character
  • You

• Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Long
  • Free
  • Desire

• To lead a country, you must periodically hold a national consultation in which people representing different programmes can make a bid for power.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • People
  • Different
  • Country

• 'Are you all right, sir?' asked Hezekiah.'Just fighting over old battles in my mind,' said John. 'It’s the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a museum, but alas, I’m the only visitor, and even I am not terribly interested in the displays.'

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Fighting

• The opposite of love is fear, not hate.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Fear
  • Hate

• Since providence and necessity has cast them upon it, he should pray God to bless their counsels.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • God

• I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.

  

  Derek Bailey
  • Free

• Understand that friends come and go, but with a precious few you should hold on. The older you get, the more you need the people who knew you when you were young.

  

  Mary Schmich
  • People
  • Friends

• My whole journey and career has been really interesting, but the one element it never really had was any sense of great momentum.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Great
  • Career
  • Interesting

• If I had an ego as big as the Eiffel Tower, would I have won this many collective trophies? I know people like to talk about it. And O.K., I am not going to answer every story. But maybe I will let my collective trophies speak for themselves. I don't know many other footballers who have won as much. Do you?

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • People
  • Ego
  • Trophies

• The image that comes to mind when I think of 'Nip/Tuck,' is I literally picture a nail just getting driven through wood. You know what I mean? Just getting absolutely bashed through a two by four.

  

  John Hensley
  • Mind
  • Picture

• I wouldn't have said that Anthony Eden was equipped by nature to deal with the situation in the world today. I would have said that he was portentous, sincere, honest and rather stupid.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • World
  • Nature
  • Today

• Nothing had been attempted like that, to lift Dad's voice, literally, off of that track and put it on a brand-new one, and then line it up, match it up, get the phrasing right. I remember listening - everyone listening at the end, and we were just enthralled. It was really wonderful.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • Remember
  • Dad

• I was listening to a lot of math rock-y type bands do lots of complex stuff and I couldn't figure out how they were doing it. Then I realized that sometimes they were finger tapping, so I started messing around doing it.

  

  Marnie Stern
  • Rock
  • Listening
  • Math

• A bore finds it easy to start talking, and even easier to get others to stop listening.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Listening
  • Talking
  • Finds