Evan Esar Quotes

Next time a man tells you talk is cheap, ask him if he knows how much a session of Congress costs.

Evan Esar

• Congress
• Costs
• Cheap
• Session

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• American stuntmen are smart - they think about safety. When they do a jump in a car, they calculate everything: the speed, the distance... But in Hong Kong, we don't know how to count. Everything we do is a guess. If you've got the guts, you do it. All of my stuntmen have gotten hurt.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • American
  • Car
  • Hurt

• The two things that hit you when you meet someone are, first, how they're visually put together and then, what they tell you with the tone of their voice - whether or not they're to be taken seriously.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Together
  • Taken
  • Voice

• I usually go make-up free when I'm not working. Because I work so much, during the free days that I have I like to let my skin breathe, but of course I'm girly so I like to put on some blush and some mascara.

  

  Bar Refaeli
  • Up
  • Work
  • Free

• So I was always passionate about it and felt that it was sort of the golden thread inside me in terms of what I was supposed to do in terms of work but I think I have relaxed a lot in terms of the actual experience and actually enjoy it more and enjoy the people more.

  

  Barbara Hershey
  • People
  • Work
  • Experience

• I'm not the best audience for that because I'm not a great science-fiction fan. I just never got off on space ships and space costumes, things like that.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Great
  • Science
  • Space

• People who have got to know Western educational methods always claim that the reading of the Classics was a useless waste of time and should be abolished. Such chatter is to be heard from hundreds of people and cannot be stopped. But it is a serious mistake.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • People
  • Time
  • Reading

• He who can not support himself, can not take his own decision.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Support
  • Decision
  • Take

• I think people get satisfaction from living for a cause that's greater than themselves. They want to leave an imprint. By writing books, I'm trying to do that in a modest way.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Writing
  • Trying

• One guy wins and one guy loses, but it's not entirely up to him. Our sport is so crazy that on any given Sunday, anybody can win. You can run the same race over and over five times, and you'll probably get five different winners. It's wild.

  

  Apolo Ohno
  • Up
  • Different
  • Guy

• Freedom is not caprice but room to enlarge.

  

  Cyrus Augustus Bartol
  • Freedom
  • Rooms
  • Caprice

• If you look at my career over the past twenty years, I've always been trying to look around corners for low-income communities of color.

  

  Van Jones
  • Trying
  • Career
  • Past

• This whole world is mind's world, the product of the mind.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
  • World
  • Mind
  • Product

• Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the Act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest. If we want the Arms Act to be repealed, if we want to learn the use of arms, here is a golden opportunity. If the middle classes render voluntary help to Government in the hour of its trial, distrust will disappear, and the ban on possessing arms will be withdrawn.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • History
  • Opportunity
  • Government

• There aren't many such enthusiasts born. The average person is not especially curious about the world. He is alive, and being somehow obliged to deal with this condition, feels the less effort it requires, the better. Whereas learning about the world is labor, and a great all-consuming one at that. Most people develop quite antithetical talents, in fact - to look without seeing, to listen without hearing, mainly to preserve onself within oneself.

  

  Ryszard Kapuscinski
  • World
  • Effort
  • Talent

• I strongly support tax relief for the middle class.

  

  Rick Larsen
  • Support
  • Relief
  • Strongly

• I always say my music is like dark blue or black, like a punch to your gut that feels really good.

  

  Banks
  • Good
  • Music
  • Black

• I was 16 and did a play at school. I was a rather good student... And then I did a play when I was 16 and completely lost all my concentration for academics.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Good
  • School
  • Lost

• Next time a man tells you talk is cheap, ask him if he knows how much a session of Congress costs.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Congress
  • Costs
  • Cheap