Evan Esar Quotes

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• We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Small
  • Problems
  • Down

• Histories are to educate so that we understand better for ourselves and for motivation.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Better
  • motivation

• We would here state that there are now three things necessary to be done in order to save China from revolution. The first is to maintain the reigning Dynasty; the second is to conserve the Holy Religion; and the third is to protect the Chinese race.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Done
  • Religion
  • Revolution

• I really want to have actors contribute their own ideas, with phrasings and ideas on all levels.

  

  Lasse Hallstrom
  • Want
  • Ideas
  • Own

• The pace of television is very different from film.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Different
  • Film
  • Television

• I like beautiful clothing. I love Bergdorfs.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Beautiful
  • Like
  • Clothing

• As long as people have been making little people, they've wanted to know how not to.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Long
  • Know

• See, that's the thing: I'm not one of those actors who thinks, 'God, I've got to improvise and make it my own.' No, my first job as an actor is to take what's written and make it work. And then, if they want me to improvise, I'll do that.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Work
  • God
  • Job

• For me it's the high-water mark of American culture - not so much contemporary jazz, which has become kind of academic, but the jazz from the '20s on through the '70s.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • American
  • High
  • Culture

• No matter where you are from, no matter what your background is, no matter what your socioeconomic status is, every person can achieve his or her dreams.

  

  Ileana Ros-Lehtinen
  • Dreams
  • Achieve
  • Her

• A lot of people on the internet have been saying that there's no way we can pull off a musical in three acts. We just take that as a challenge.

  

  Ian Williams Battles
  • People
  • Challenge
  • Internet

• I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.

  

  Rachel Joyce
  • People
  • Life
  • Writing

• How beautiful maleness is, if it finds its right expression.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Beautiful
  • Right
  • Expression

• People think computers will keep them from making mistakes. They're wrong. With computers you make mistakes faster.

  

  Adam Osborne
  • People
  • Mistakes
  • Computers

• I wanted to go to New York and be a stage actress, doing things like Chekhov. None of that happened, and then I went to L.A. and an agent said, 'I think you belong in commercials and TV.' So I did that and got some opportunities that I absolutely love.

  

  Rachael Harris
  • Think
  • Opportunities
  • Actress

• I spend a lot of time on my music.

  

  Adam Hicks
  • Time
  • Music
  • Spend

• For me, when I'm writing something really personal, I don't feel good about it. It's weird that people can connect to it and like something that came from a really crap place. You have to be quite brave to write about something that you honestly feel and think.

  

  Sampha
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

• Like other men, I have sought honours and preferment, and often have obtained them beyond my wishes or hopes. Yet never have I found in them that content which I had figured beforehand in my mind. A strong reason, if we well consider it, why we should disencumber ourselves of vain desires.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Men
  • Mind
  • Why

• The actresses I most admire are Cameron Diaz and Sofia Vergara. They're amazing comedic actresses and also gorgeous. That's the direction I'd like my career to go in.

  

  Bar Paly
  • Career
  • Amazing
  • Direction

• Civilization, we shall find, like Universalism and Christianity, is anti evolutionary in its effects; it works against the laws and conditions which regulated the earlier stages of man's ascent.

  

  Arthur Keith

• I need people to know that there is a group of people who are part of the leadership of the DNC, and I will make damn sure as a vice chair, and so will others, that we do everything humanly possible to have a level playing field.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • People
  • Leadership
  • DNC

• The catsuit would hug her frame like steam on glass.

  

  Beverly Jenkins
  • Glass
  • Frame
  • Steam

• Not only were the minds of artists formed by the university; in the same mold were formed those of the art historians, the critics, the curators, and the collectors by whom their work was evaluated. With the rise of Conceptual art, the classroom announced its final triumph over the studio.

  

  Harold Rosenberg
  • Work
  • Art

• Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Work
  • Play
  • Enjoy