Joseph Epstein Quotes

One serious drawback about letters is that, in order to get them, one must send some out. When it comes to the mail, I feel it is better to receive than to give.

Joseph Epstein

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 9, 1937

Topics

BetterFeelSeriousLettersMail

America is a great country. It has a lot of work to do. The bottom line is it's easy to talk; it's easy to have the media pick up on something, and it's hard to have the patience to put something in place you can build on that will make sure each citizen has their equal rights.

Jim Brown

WorkPatienceGreatAmericaMedia

Everything in my life happens really fast.

Joel Embiid

LifeMy LifeFastEverythingHappens

I'm in charge of a lot of young women. They occasionally come to me for advice, and I have to wrangle them.

Jennifer Konner

WomenMeAdviceYoungChargeCome

I was singing when I was two years old, and my parents were very supportive, but they weren't musicians themselves.

John Oates

ParentsSingingMusiciansOldTwo

It takes me a long time to get with a landscape. It took me 20 years before I wrote anything about Ibiza, and I haven't written about Oregon yet, although I've been there 20 years - possibly I'm almost due.

Robert Sheckley

TimeMeLandscapeLongLong Time

If I can convince people that good people don't do attack ads, and that we want good people to represent us, then the attack ads work against themselves.

John Hickenlooper

WorkGoodPeopleGood PeopleI Can

You gotta know that you're better than anybody, 'cause to me, if you don't go in like that, you're gonna lose! They're gonna punk you out! On any stage, court, business venture, on the anchor desk - whatever. You've got to go in believing, 'I can do this better than anybody.'

Stuart Scott

BusinessMeBetterYouLoseI Can

People have always doubted whether I was good enough to play this game at this level. I thought I was, and I thought I could be. What other people thought was really always irrelevant to me.

Steve Nash

GoodPeopleMeGameThoughtEnough

I'm kind of domestic, untidily so.

Tom Paulin

KindDomestic

Pakistan hasn't been cast in the role of... interesting cultural place or, you know, land of great comedians.

Mohsin Hamid

GreatInterestingYouPlaceKnow

The stupidity of militarized fences between two worlds is a metaphor for all the things that divide us as human beings.

Luis Alberto Urrea

StupidityHumanTwoThingsUs

What most entrepreneurs don't understand is that it isn't the economy that bursts a bubble, but investor psychology.

Jay Samit

BubbleUnderstandEconomyPsychology

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