Evan Quotes

Divorce is the price people play for playing with matches.

Worry makes people thin, except when they worry about being fat.

The disadvantage of becoming wise is that you realize how foolish you've been.

All men are born equal, but some of them outgrow it.

[Statistics] Fiction in its most uninteresting form.

The reason why men who mind their own business succeed is that they have so little competition.

Reactionary: One who wants the rules enforced so nobody can take his pile away from him the way he got it from others.

The only medicine that needs no prescription, has no unpleasant taste, and costs no money is laughter.

Adolescence begins when children stop asking questions-because they know all the answers.

The girl with a future avoids a man with a past.

Only one man has the right to boast, and that's the man who never does.

Hard work never hurt anyone who hired someone else to do it.

Some taxpayers close their eyes, some stop their ears, some shut their mouths, but all pay through the nose.

The best way to make a long story short is to stop listening.

If you want to be different nowadays, just act normal.

Diets show to what great lengths women will go so as not to go to great widths.

The cat: an animal that's so unpredictable, you can never tell in advance how it will ignore you the next time.

It takes hundreds of nuts to hold a car together, but it takes only one of them to scatter it all over the highway.

Ego: The only thing that can keep growing without nourishment.

Our problem wasn’t that it blew up and was impossible to scale, but there were some bad choices made. One of the biggest lessons time after time was to focus. Do fewer things.

Take a human desire, preferably one that has been around for a really long time Identify that desire and use modern technology to take out steps.

Academics act like they are important, but when something is academic it is meaningless. People say, 'It's academic, now let's get work done.

My favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas were the two chalk outlines out front.

Jews don't care about ancient rivalries. We worry about humidity in Miami.

I think everyone is born creative but it can be suppressed by fear.

The things that keep nagging at you are the ones worth exploring.

When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.

I used to have a sort of spiky haircut and it just feels better to have short hair again.

It is hard, though, 'cos record labels love to boss you around. I won't let them do that anymore.

Failure of your company is not failure in life. Failure in your relationships is.

I lie around and play guitar, that's something I do for sure. In fact that's all I do, I think.

The most complicated character I have ever played - she has many, many, many layers that even I'm not fully aware of.

Getting to share a project with Anthony Hopkins is incredible. It's like watching Da Vinci paint or something - you're reminded why you do what you do.

I guess I'm about ready to promote myself in a more human way. I don't feel quite so insecure.

If you get an audition and you're out of work, you just say, "I've gotta go on this."

I would love to do comedy. I think I'm funny and that comedy is my strong suit, at least in real life. I have yet to prove myself in the movies, but I'd love to get the opportunity to do that.

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

A compromise is a settlement by which each side gets what neither side wanted.

The quizzical expression of the monkey at the zoo comes from his wondering whether he is his brother's keeper, or his keeper's brother.

All my life people have made fun of me because I was so skinny. They kind of made me feel bad about it sometimes. I worried that maybe people will think I am really anorexic.

I've made my own music, and the way I've always described it is Peggy Lee with an electric guitar, or Billie Holiday with some PJ Harvey in there.

Change the world. Build a business. Have fun.

Patience may be a virtue, but quitting is an art.

Egotist: 1. A person who is his own best friend. 2. An I specialist. 3. A man whose opinions all change, except the one he has of himself.

Tony Rezko and Bill Ayers should lead the Democratic Party. They are the only Democrats with any convictions.

We all listened to a lot of recorded music, especially American jazz, modern jazz, and that's where our studies were and our inspiration came from.

In a certain sense, aspects of my solo playing were developed in order to test the theory about how long particular elements could be, as parts of so-called free improvisations.

I always feel like one of the guys and very unintimidated.

Those early steps are very important in understanding the evolution. But in themselves, maybe now you need the later records to understand the significance of the earlier records!

The secret of successful writing lies in striking the right keys on the typewriter.