Evan Esar Quotes

A creature that never cries over spilt milk: a cat.

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• I've never managed to keep a journal longer than two weeks.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Never
  • Two
  • Journal

• In the Jewish tradition, there is at the same time Jerusalem in the heavens and Jerusalem on the ground. Jerusalem is a living city, but also the heart, the soul of the Jewish people and the state of Israel.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • People
  • Time
  • Heart

• There are several very good websites which describe the details of preparedness planning for citizens.

  

  Irwin Redlener
  • Good
  • Planning
  • Details

• People are at their happiest if they are true to themselves. I think that applies to their chosen profession, friends and relationships. It goes for your health too. If you are true to yourself, it seems to me everything should work out pretty well.

  

  Bebe Neuwirth
  • People
  • Work
  • Friends

• The most difficult idea to reconcile in war is the notion that anything is going to be solved by killing a stranger, or in risking your life for a cause anchored in some distant political arena.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • War
  • Political

• I do a lot of ceramics.

  

  Jeff Bridges

• I don't get surprised very often to be honest. I'm the kind of person who you couldn't throw a surprise party for because I'd figure it out.

  

  Chris O'Donnell
  • Party

• I still have a sweet tooth, so I bake a lot, but I'd much rather have one of my sweet potato brownies than a processed chocolate bar.

  

  Ella Woodward
  • Sweet
  • Chocolate

• I grew up in the '70s and '80s, at a time that I'd argue was the absolute golden age of American popular culture. Because not only did we have all of the fantastic new stuff in print and on screens, but we had a constant supply of everything that came before, as well.

  

  Chris Roberson
  • Up
  • Time
  • American

• Where I would fault President Bush the most was that, in the wake of 9/11, he motivated our military, but he didn't call the nation into a state of war. And he didn't explain that this would take though a communal effort against common foe.

  

  Frank Miller
  • War
  • Effort
  • Military

• I think, in this country, we have a problem where we view the arts as charity, and therefore, it has no value. Things in America that have value are profitable, and unless you are profitable, we don't know where to put you.

  

  Jason Ralph
  • Country
  • America
  • Value

• I didn't watch TV or movies as a kid.

  

  Jason Ralph

• When we remember we are all mad, the mysteries disappear and life stands explained.

  

  Mark Twain
  • Life
  • Remember
  • Mad

• I resist lists. It must be all those 'Most Important' and 'Best of the Year' ones I compiled in my years as a beat critic. I often felt guilty about what I left out.

  

  Margo Jefferson
  • Important
  • Guilty

• There is a power of God for salvation. And it is the gospel of Jesus Christ.

  

  Paul Washer
  • God
  • Power
  • Jesus

• I've always been attracted to themes of isolation in my work - in my independent work and my DC work.

  

  Jeff Lemire
  • Work
  • Independent

• We can trace things back to the earlier stages of the Big Bang, but we still don't know what banged and why it banged. That's a challenge for 21st-century science.

  

  Martin Rees
  • Why
  • Science
  • Challenge

• In North Carolina nobody bothers us; we're all about concentrating on the work or our auditions that we're trying to get a flight out for. So all that crap is not something that I'm confronted with on a daily basis.

  

  Katie Holmes
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Daily

• My goal is two pages a day, five days a week. I never want to write, but I'm always glad that I have done it. After I write, I go to work at the bookstore.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Work
  • Done
  • Day

• In view of China's growing military strength and intentions, the best way to safeguard Asia's permanent peace and prosperity is to have all Asian countries join forces with other democratic countries in the world to form a global community of democracies.

  

  Jim Costa
  • World
  • Growing
  • Community

• Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Man
  • Creature
  • Refuses

• Every time an ashtray is missing from a hotel, they don't come looking for you. But let a diamond bracelet disappear in France and they shout John Robie, the Cat. You don't have to spend every day of your life proving your honesty, but I do.

  

  John Michael Hayes
  • Missing
  • Cat
  • Honesty

• His whole being radiates a pure, wild sweetness, flitting through night woods with little melodious cries, on some cryptic errand. There is also an aura of doom and sadness about this trusting little creature. He has been abandoned many times over the centuries, left to die in cold city alleys, in hot noon vacant lots, pottery shards, nettles, crumbled mud walls. Many times he has cried for help in vain.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Night
  • Wall
  • Helping

• A creature that never cries over spilt milk: a cat.

  

  Evan Esar
  • Cat
  • Creature
  • Cries