Evan Esar Quotes
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The world is too violent right now.
Jackie Chan -
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 -
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 -
Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
Gary Larson -
It takes me about a week and a half to really analyze a game - play by play.
Bart Starr -
God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.
C. S. Lewis
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My full name is E.G. Marshall. I am known by no other.
E. G. 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. -
I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
Adam Brody -
In most horror films, you don't really get to understand why this character is the way he is.
Barry Watson -
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 -
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
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'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 -
The opposite of love is fear, not hate.
Yoko Ono -
Since providence and necessity has cast them upon it, he should pray God to bless their counsels.
Oliver Cromwell -
I think the blues is fine for blues players, but free blues has never made much sense to me.
Derek Bailey -
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 -
I learned long ago on the battlefields of Vietnam that in a crisis, there is no substitute for clear-eyed leadership.
Jim Webb
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I think I've gotten more confident because the more you do it and the more shows you play, you just feel more confident. You feel more confident about everything.
Taylor Dye -
I'm not as hard on myself anymore. I'm comfortable exactly where I am, though it took me until I was 34 years old! I still have things I'm really insecure about, but I've changed by loving me - C-section scars, stretch marks, and all.
Jenny McCarthy -
Only fools are positive.
Moe Howard -
I want people to make sense of what I'm talking about.
Washed Out -
While Laurence was talking, a Tater Tot hit him in the head, but he just kept talking as if nothing had happened.
Charlie Jane Anders -
A bore finds it easy to start talking, and even easier to get others to stop listening.
Evan Esar