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# Evan Sayet

Evan Douglas Sayet (October 29, 1960 –) is a comedian and conservative speaker.

## Quotes

* Donald Trump is America’s first wartime president in the Culture War. During wartime, things like “dignity” and “collegiality” simply aren’t the most essential qualities one looks for in their warriors.
** He Fights (July 13, 2017)
* . A lot of people aren’t really liberals, they’re conservatives. They’ve just never heard what a conservative believes from a conservative. All I ever knew was what liberals said conservatives believed. I knew that Democrats like peace and Republicans like war. Well, I like peace. I must be a Democrat. Democrats like air and water. I like air and water. I must be a Democrat.
** Evan Sayet on the Naïveté of the Left (December 10, 2017)

## External links

* Official website
# Evan Esar

Evan Esar (1899–1995) was an American humorist and author who wrote "Esar's Comic Dictionary" in 1943, "Humorous English" in 1961, and "20,000 Quips and Quotes" in 1968.

## Sourced

* An epigram is the marriage of wit, and wisdom; a wisecrack, their divorce.
** 20,000 Quips and Quotes (1968)
* An alert copyreader on a newspaper couldn’t believe it when he read a reporter’s account of the theft of 2025 pigs. That’s a lot of pigs, he thought, and called the farmer to check the copy. “Is it true that you lost 2025 pigs?” he asked. “Yeth,” lisped the farmer. “Thanks,” returned the copyreader, and corrected the story to read “two sows and 25 pigs.”
** Humorous English (1961), p213
* It is the uncensored sense of humor of a people which is the ultimate therapy for man in society.
** 20,000 Quips & Quotes, (1968), Introduction, xiii.
* Many a man who falls in love with a dimple make the mistake of marrying the whole girl.
** Esar's Comic Dictionary (1943)
* Play: Work that you enjoy doing for nothing.
** Esar's Comic Dictionary
* Statistician: A man who believes figures don't lie, but admits that under analysis some of them won't stand up either.
** Esar's Comic Dictionary
* The history of humorous writing discloses everchanging trends. Our fast-paced modern living is too impatient for the lengthy light verse and the leisurely essays of our forefathers.
** Humorous English, p266
* The personal comparative is marked by epigrammatic self-satire. It implies that everyone thinks himself better than anyone else, but only the egoist says so.
** Humorous English, p91
* When Marilyn Monroe, the American Venus, visited England, one London correspondent wrote that she looked like a million dollars. Fortunately, he did not write that she looked like a million pounds.
** Humorous English, p163
* Where there is insight in citation, or wisdom winged with wit, especially from the world of letters, I have quoted liberally. For a good epigram not only makes a point, but a point to ponder. This book provides many such quotations that I have unearthed from the tomes of many writers.
** 20,000 Quips & Quotes, Introduction, pviii
* Zoo: An excellent place to study the habits of human beings.
** Esar's Comic Dictionary
# Evan Thomas

Evan Thomas (born 25 April 1951 at Huntington, New York) is an American journalist and author. Since 1991 he has been the assistant managing editor at Newsweek.

## Sourced

* On Newsweek's coverage of the Duke rape case :
** “The narrative was properly about race, sex and class.... We went a beat too fast in assuming that a rape took place.... We just got the facts wrong. The narrative was right, but the facts were wrong.”
    — Quoted in Rachel Smolkin, "Justice Delayed," American Journalism Review, (August/September 2007)
* On President George W. Bush :
** “Well, our job is to bash the president, that's what we do almost —.”
    — Feb 6, 2007, in response to Gordon Peterson's question: "What do you think, Evan? Are the mainstream media bashing the president unfairly?"
* On Barack Obama :
** “There is a slightly creepy cult of personality about all of this. [...] He's a — I think, a deeply manipulative guy.”
    — Interview with Charlie Rose, November 5, 2008. (the day after Obama's election)
** “I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above — above the world, he's sort of God.”
    — Interview with Chris Matthews, June 5, 2009.
# Evagrius Scholasticus

Evagrius Scholasticus (Greek: Εὐάγριος Σχολαστικός) was a Syrian scholar and intellectual living in the 6th century AD, and an aide to the patriarch Gregory of Antioch. His surviving work, Ecclesiastical History (Ἐκκλησιαστικὴ Ἱστορία), comprises a six-volume collection concerning the Church's history from the First Council of Ephesus (431) to the emperor Maurice’s reign until Scholasticus' death.

## Quotes

* Justinian is said to have restored one hundred and fifty cities in Africa, some of which had been altogether, and others extensively ruined; and this he did with surpassing magnificence, in private and public works and embellishments, in fortifications, and other vast structures by which cities are adorned and the Deity propitiated: also in aqueducts for use and ornament, the supply of water having been in some cases conveyed to the cities for the first time, in others restored to its former state.
** Ecclesiastical History: A History of the Church from A.D. 431 to A.D. 594, p. 210.

## External links

Encyclopedic article on Evagrius Scholasticus on Wikipedia
# Evan Czaplicki

Evan Czaplicki created the Elm programming language in 2012.

## Quotes

* One thing I noticed on the NPM website is that they say "What can you make 700,000 building blocks?" And to me, it's like if you said "What can you make with 10,000 kitchens?"
** What is Success? - Elm Europe
# Chrysler Building

The Chrysler Building is an Art Deco skyscraper in New York City, United States.

## Sourced

* Art Deco Holmes in France found its American equivalent in the design of the New York skyscrapers of the 1920s. The Chrysler Building... was one of the most accomplished essays in the style.
** John Julius, The World Atlas of Architecture (1994)
* The design, originally drawn up for building contractor William H. Reynolds, was finally sold to Walter P. Chrysler, who wanted a provocative building which would not merely scrape the sky but positively pierce it. Its 77 floors briefly making it the highest building in the world—at least until the Empire State Building was completed—it became the star of the New York skyline, thanks above all to its crowning peak. In a deliberate strategy of myth generation, Van Alen planned a dramatic moment of revelation: the entire seven-storey pinnacle, complete with special-steel facing, was first assembled inside the building, and then hoisted into position through the roof opening and anchored on top in just one and a half hours. All of a sudden it was there — a sensational fait accompli.
** Peter Gossel and Gabriele Leuthauser, Architecture in the Twentieth Century (1996)
* One of the first uses of stainless steel over a large exposed building surface. The decorative treatment of the masonry walls below changes with every set-back and includes story-high basket-weave designs, radiator-cap gargoyles, and a band of abstract automobiles. The lobby is a modernistic composition of African marble and chrome steel.
** Elliot Willensky and Norval White, AIA Guide to New York (2000)
# Chrystos

Chrystos (born November 7, 1946, as Christina Smith) is an American activist and writer.

## Quotes
### "They're always telling me I'm too angry" (1995)

    From Fugitive Colors (1995) Full text online
* They're always telling me I'm too angry
    Especially when I mention land theft or rape or genocide
    They go to therapy to understand themselves
    pound anonymous pillows safely with a stranger
    in the closed room of improper behavior
    There is
    no pillow I’m angry with.
* I’m too tired to be angry enough
    Angry that I can’t go anyplace
    without seeing demeaning images and outright lies about Indian people
    I’m livid that we can’t even keep the few pitiful acres we have left
    if they happen to have uranium or copper or coal.
* I'm angry that I can't sleep that I hate myself
    that I can’t write as well as I want
    because I’m so damn angry I can’t breathe
    Furious that nobody else seems to be angry
    and they don’t want me to be either
    Enraged at this whole sodden rotting mess they keep calling
    civilization
    as it poisons the air and the water and kills everyone in it’s way.

## Quotes about Chrystos

* Gloria Anzaldúa, an old friend, and Chrystos, a new one, gave me courage to write honestly about violence.
** Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, "Acknowledgements" in The Issue Is Power (1992)
# Chrysler

Stellantis North America (formerly Chrysler) is one of the "Big Three" automobile manufacturers in the United States, headquartered in Auburn Hills, Michigan. It is the U.S. subsidiary of multinational automotive company Stellantis.

## Quotes

* Hop in my Chrysler, it's as big as a whale and it's about to set sail.
** The B-52's, "Love Shack", Cosmic Thing (1989), Reprise Records

## External links

* Encyclopedic article on Chrysler on Wikipedia
# Chrysippus

Chrysippus (c. 279 – c. 206 BCE) was a Greek philosopher, and head of the Stoic school in Athens, from about 230 BCE.

## Quotes

* Living virtuously is equal to living in accordance with one's experience of the actual course of nature
** As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, vii. 182.
* Wise people are in want of nothing, and yet need many things. On the other hand, nothing is needed by fools, for they do not understand how to use anything, but are in want of everything.
** As quoted in Moral Epistles by Seneca, iii. 10.
* He who is running a race ought to endeavor and strive to the utmost of his ability to come off victor; but it is utterly wrong for him to trip up his competitor, or to push him aside. So in life it is not unfair for one to seek for himself what may accrue to his benefit; but it is not right to take it from another.
** As quoted in De Officiis by Cicero, iii. 10.
* If I had followed the multitude, I should not have studied philosophy.
** As quoted by Diogenes Laërtius, vii. 182.
* If I knew that it was fated for me to be sick, I would even wish for it; for the foot also, if it had intelligence, would volunteer to get muddy.
** As quoted by Epictetus, Discourses, ii. 6. 10.
* The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul
** As quoted in De Natura Deorum by Cicero, i. 15.
* We should infer in the case of a beautiful dwelling-place that it was built for its owners and not for mice; we ought, therefore, in the same way to regard the universe as the dwelling-place of the gods.
** As quoted in De Natura Deorum by Cicero, iii. 10.
# George Francis FitzGerald

George Francis FitzGerald FRS FRSE (3 August 1851 – 22 February 1901) was an Irish academic and physicist who served as Erasmus Smith's Professor of Natural and Experimental Philosophy at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) from 1881 to 1901. He is known for his work in electromagnetic theory and for the Lorentz–FitzGerald contraction, which became an integral part of Albert Einstein's special theory of relativity. A crater on the far side of the Moon is named after him, as is a building at TCD.

## Quotes

* When two surfaces at different temperatures are in presence of one another with a gas between them, there exists a force tending to separate them. The assumption of this force explains a very great number of phenomena, including the motion of the arms of Mr. Crooke's radiometers and the so-called spheroidal state of liquids.
** March 1878 quoted in The Scientific Writings of the Late George Francis FitzGerald. (p. 18)
* If Universities do not study useless subjects, who will?
** (25 February 1892)"The Value of Useless Studies". Nature. (p. 392)
# George Gallup

George Gallup (November 18, 1901 – July 26, 1984) was an American statistician. He invented the Gallup poll, a successful statistical method of survey sampling for measuring public opinion.

## Quotes

* I could prove God statistically. Take the human body alone — the chances that all the functions of an individual would just happen is a statistical monstrosity.
** Quoted in Readers Digest (October 1943)
“If democracy is based on the will of the people, shouldn’t we find out what that will is?”-
# George Frederick Watts

George Frederic Watts, (sometimes spelled George Frederick Watts) (London 23 February 1817 – 1 July 1904) was a popular English Victorian painter and sculptor associated with the Symbolist movement.

## Unsourced

* I paint ideas, not things. My intention is less to paint works that are pleasing to the eye than to suggest great thoughts which will speak to the imagination and the heart and will arouse all that is noblest and best in man.

## External links

* Biography of Watts by W. Loftus Hare
* Watts' painting Hope
* BBC Restoration Appeal for the Watts Gallery
* The Watts Gallery, Compton
* Watts - 5 works in focus at Tate Online
# David R. Ellis

David Richard Ellis (September 8, 1952–January 7, 2013) was an American film director and stuntman.

## Quotes

* Directing films obviously there’s a ton more responsibility rather than just coming in and directing the action on the film because you’re responsible for every little nuance in the film from fingernail polish to jewelry to wardrobe to hair and you’re dealing with actors, you’re dealing with studio critics, and studios. You’re responsible for budget, more responsibility on all fronts, but it’s a great art form!
** Exclusive Interview with David R. Ellis (August 31, 2011)
# David Rakoff

David Benjamin Rakoff (November 27, 1964 – August 9, 2012) was a Canadian-born American writer based in New York City who was noted for his humorous and sometimes autobiographical non-fiction essays. Rakoff was an essayist, journalist, and actor, and a regular contributor to WBEZ's This American Life.

## Quotes
### Don´t Get Too Comfortable (2005)

* It would be peevish and ungracious after being taken to such a lovely supper in this Temple of Food, I know, but I am desperate to ask the question that begs to be posed: Just how fucking good can olive oil get?
* Maybe I sound like some Victorian who felt that forty years ought to be enough for any man, but one of the marks of a live well lived has to be reaching a state of finally getting it, of not needing more, and of being able to sign off with something approaching peace of mind.
# David Prowse

David Charles Prowse (1 July 1935– 28 November 2020) is an English bodybuilder, weightlifter, and character actor.

## Quotes

* I mean it's wonderful to see that something you have done in your career has attracted so much attention. It was basically giving it what I call a lifetime achievement, it's something people will never forget.
** Interview with David Prowse (April 9, 2008)
* I've looked right and left and right again and the only party I can safely vote for is UKIP.
** Comedian Frank Carson backs UKIP (May 15, 2009)

## External links

* Official website
# David Puttnam

David Puttnam (born February 25, 1941) is a British movie producer and director.

## Sourced

* If Coca-Cola accidentally created 100 million cans of faulty Coke, you know for sure the entire 100 million cans would be dropped in the Atlantic or Pacific Ocean, without a second thought and irrespective of what that did to the year's profits. What do we do with a crappy movie? We double its advertising budget and hope for a big opening weekend. What have we done for the audience as they walk out of the cinema? We've alienated them. We've sold audiences a piece of junk; we just took twelve dollars away from a couple and we think we've done ourselves no long-term damage.
** GQ magazine, April 1987
# David Shulkin

David Jonathon Shulkin (June 22, 1959–) is an American physician and former government official. In 2017, Shulkin became the ninth United States Secretary of Veterans Affairs and served under President Donald Trump. He was the Under Secretary of Veterans Affairs for Health from 2015 until 2017, appointed by President Barack Obama.

## Quotes

* It is my honor to serve as President-elect Trump’s Secretary of Veterans Affairs, President-elect Trump’s commitment to caring for our veterans is unquestionable, and he is eager to support the best practices for care and provide our Veterans Affairs’ teams with the resources they need to improve health outcomes. We are both eager to begin reforming the areas in our Veterans Affairs system that need critical attention, and do it in a swift, thoughtful and responsible way.
** President-Elect Donald J. Trump Nominates Dr. David J. Shulkin as Secretary of Veterans Affairs (January 11, 2017)

## Quotes about David Shulkin

* I have no doubt Dr. Shulkin will be able to lead the turnaround our Department of Veterans Affairs needs. His sole mandate will be to serve our veterans and restore the level of care we owe to our brave men and women in the military,” said President-elect Donald J. Trump. “Sadly our great veterans have not gotten the level of care they deserve, but Dr. Shulkin has the experience and the vision to ensure we will meet the healthcare needs of every veteran. Dr. Shulkin is an incredibly gifted doctor who is using his elite talents for medicine to care for our heroes, and Americans can have faith he will get the job done right.
** Donald Trump, President-Elect Donald J. Trump Nominates Dr. David J. Shulkin as Secretary of Veterans Affairs, (January 11, 2017)

## External links

* Official Site
# David Shuster

David Shuster (born July 22, 1967) is an American television anchor on Al Jazeera America, formerly of the MSNBC network and Fox News Channel and a former liberal pundit.

## Sourced
### On MSNBC

* There's just something a little bit unseemly to me that Chelsea's out there calling up celebrities, saying support my mom and, apparently she's also calling these super delegates.
** David Shuster: Chelsea Being "Pimped Out?", Feb 7, 2008 (YouTube): On Chelsea Clinton campaigning for her mother.
* Doesn't it seem like Chelsea's sort of being pimped out in some weird sort of way?
** David Shuster: Chelsea Being "Pimped Out?", Feb 7, 2008 (YouTube) : On Chelsea Clinton campaigning for her mother.
* For most Americans, Wednesday, April 15th will be Tax Day, but in our fourth story tonight: It's going to be teabagging day for the right-wing and they’re going nuts for it.
** Countdown With Keith Olbermann, 2009 -
* As opposed to the agenda from people like you to boost Sarah Palin, who is clearly unqualified.
** On Sarah Palin while interviewing documentarian John Ziegler. 2009 -
* "Good for him!"
** Commenting on the early release of Iraqi journalist who famously threw a shoe at President Bush. -
* I've said it before, I'll say it again, Sarah Palin will never recover from this … No matter what people say, no matter what these polls, she has no future."
** On Sarah Palin's political future. 2009 -

### On Twitter

    Tweets from Twitter.com/DavidShuster
* Prejean, who got cosmetic surgery before the pageant, just spoke of 'how women can make a difference in the world.' Absolutely revolting.
** 5:20 PM - 12 May 09
* Everybody involved in this story - from Prejean to Terrell to pageant officials to Trump, - everybody involved makes me want to vomit.
** 5:17 PM - 12 May 09
* Do you subscribe to the Weekly Standard? Does that magazine hate America?
** 11:12 PM - 2 Oct 09
* GOP has become a party of nihilists.
** 5:16 PM - 20 Aug 09
* Michael Steele is nuts.
** 11:23 PM - 26 Mar 09
* Sarah palin's latest makes her either a despicable liar or horribly uninformed.
** 3:14 AM - 8 Aug 09
* Extremely surprised and impressed by the 'naked cowboy's' mayoral run. That guy knows the issues... despite his outfit or lack thereof.
** 10:30 PM - 22 Jul 09
* If Palin lawyer thomas van flein thinks palin has been "defamed" he is delusional. Birds of a feather....
** 7:41 PM - 5 Jul 09
* That palin would now be a 'leader/role model' for any group of repubs shows how far gop has fallen.
** 7:04 PM - 5 Jul 09
* As for UFO's … I do believe there is a dimension that we don't understand. Not sure about little green martians, though.
* [F]inally saw the Megan Fox Maxim shoot. Meh. I'd have preferred Miley Cyrus.

## External links

* Hardblogger - MSNBC political blog
* David Shuster on Twitter Twitter
* David Shuster on IMDb
# David Smith (rower)

David Smith MBE (born 21 April 1978) is a British adaptive rower who won a gold medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics.

## Quotes

* [Going vegan] was originally for my health and sporting performance – however, it has grown from that to being based on ethical views, also. … I noticed right away that I had more focus and reduced recovery times and generally felt lighter from the inside. … I think as more athletes realise the benefits of this lifestyle and the positive impact it can have on your health, we will hopefully see more switches. … I like to think of it as crowding out the bad stuff. The more good plant-based foods you bring into your kitchen, the more your body will start to crave them.
** "Q&A With Plant-Fuelled Paralympian Dave Smith", interview with PETA (5 September 2014).
* Making it onto the GB Cycling squad and fighting through my second tumour so much faster than I did my first time round is one of my greatest achievements. I believe 100% that following a plant based lifestyle got me back on my bike 6 weeks to the day after having my tumour removed from my spinal cord in my neck. … I feel better now at 36 and after three major neck surgeries than I have ever felt in my life and I owe that to a vegan diet. It is also great to know that you’re not only giving your body the best nourishment but your also not hurting any animals and helping the planet.
** "David Smith, MBE, vegan paralympian", interview with GreatVeganAthletes.com (2015).
# David Sproxton

David Sproxton (6 January 1954–) is one of the co-founders of the Aardman Animations studio.

## Quotes

* I'm not one for the trappings of success. I drive a one-year-old Citroën Xantia and I hate shopping. I did have a share in a glider - that is as far as it goes.
** Feat of clay (31 December 2004)
* We use the word authenticity, it’s about being honest and uncynical. We strive to make the characters true; they believe the world they are living in, however ridiculous it is. We know how to make the films, but getting the story to land absolutely spot on – that’s the hardest bit.
** Baa-hind the scenes on the Shaun the Sheep movie: 'In a good week we can shoot two minutes' (22 January 2015)
# David Souter

David Hackett Souter (born September 17, 1939) is a retired Associate Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States. He served from October 1990 until his retirement in June 2009. He was appointed by President George H. W. Bush to fill the seat vacated by William J. Brennan, Jr..

## Quotes

* "Democracy works "only if the people have faith in those who govern, and that faith is bound to be shattered when high officials and their appointees engage in activities which arouse suspicions of malfeasance and corruption." United States v. Mississippi Valley Generating Co., 364 U. S. 520, 562 (1961).
** David Souter, Opinion of the Court, Nixon v. Shrink Missouri Government PAC, 528 U.S. 377 (2000).
* What I worry about is that when problems are not addressed, people will not know who is responsible. And when the problems get bad enough – as they might do, for example, another serious terrorist attack, as they might do with another financial meltdown – some one person will come forward and say, "Give me total power, and I will solve this problem." That is how the Roman republic fell….That is how democracy dies. And if something is not done to improve the level of civic knowledge, that is what you should worry about at night.
** With Margaret Warner at ‘Constitutionally Speaking’ in Concord, N.H. on Sept. 14, 2012: David Souter Gets Rock Star Welcome, Offers Constitution Day Warning | PBS NewsHour
* I think the case is so strong that I can tell you the day you see a camera come into our courtroom, it's going to roll over my dead body.
** On Cameras in Supreme Court, Souter Says, 'Over My Dead Body', The New York Times, March 30, 1996