Ira Levin Quotes

That’s what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. That’s what they all were, all the Stepford wives: actresses in commercials, pleased with detergents and floor wax, with cleansers, shampoos, and deodorants. Pretty actresses, big in the bosom but small in the talent, playing housewives unconvincingly, too nicey-nice to be real.

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• It does make me sad that there's a lot of great songs out there, and they're not going to see the light of day because they're competing with these tailgate songs.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Great
  • Light
  • Day

• I have always noticed that a man who gives the most for the money, gets the most business.

  

  Vash Young
  • Money
  • Business
  • Man

• Sadly, for those who are busy sawing off their feet to escape the trap of cliches, every story is chock full of them and sometimes depends on an especially hoary one.

  

  Rafael Yglesias
  • Story
  • Feet
  • Busy

• The body is the one thing you have to say goodbye to. You can hold on to your memories. You can hold on to the spirit. That's part of the package that you love and the part that comforts you.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Love
  • Spirit
  • Memories

• You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.

  

  Abbie Hoffman
  • Freedom
  • Democracy
  • Measure

• The SS, as such, behaved no more criminally than any other social groups would behave when taking part in political events.

  

  Hans Frank
  • Political
  • More
  • Events

• Things can get only so bad. People want to eat, so at some point they resist further cuts to their consumption - it's not a bottomless pit.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • People
  • Bad
  • Want

• You can know what's in your life when you know what's in your heart.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Know

• It's unbelievable, there's a book out attacking Gore, when he's the most unfortunate loser in political history.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Book
  • History
  • Political

• PETA doesn't want stressed animals to be cruelly crowded into sheds, ankle-deep in their own crap, because they don't want any animals to die-ever-and basically think chickens should, in time, gain the right to vote. I don't want animals stressed or crowded or treated cruelly or inhumanely because that makes them probably less delicious.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • Time
  • Die
  • Deep

• I'm not brave at all.

  

  Matt Nagle
  • Brave

• For the moment and for some time great events have been denied me, forward action not come my way.

  

  John Burns
  • Time
  • Great
  • Action

• I have to be grateful to our society here in China, grateful to the economic reforms for letting me get rich, and grateful for the efforts of my staff. If there had been no reforms, I would have been a farmer.

  

  Chen Guangbiao
  • Society
  • Farmer

• I think I try to look at all my films and break them down because, at the end of the day, it's about creating characters that you like.

  

  James Wan

• I'm happy with the Arena Football League right now. I'm happy in Denver.

  

  John Elway
  • Happy
  • Football

• The reader becomes God, for all textual purposes. I see your eyes glazing over, so I'll hush.

  

  David Foster Wallace
  • God
  • Eyes

• Is there any good reason why we cannot extend our multi-cultural generosity to include another dimension? That of time. The past, too, is another country. Its ghosts may look strange and frightening and slightly misshapen in body and mind, but all the more reason then, to welcome them to our shores.

  

  Martin Amis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Country

• Don't worry, I will come through, and I'm also fine as far as my health goes. I feel well and watch myself.

  

  Franz Marc
  • Health
  • Worry

• People find it easy to justify their frustration in the struggle to manipulate others, but find it hard to justify the struggle for their own growth.

  

  Eugene J. Martin
  • Struggle
  • Frustration
  • Manipulate

• I've had three wives. I've had five weddings.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Three
  • Five
  • Wives

• Now suddenly you got members of your White House team who were 23, 24. They've met their wives here, or their husbands here.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Team
  • Here
  • Members

• A lot of us are secretly scared, for whatever reason, and so we get in our own way. But if you really want something, you have to ask for it.

  

  Paul Downs Colaizzo
  • Want
  • Scared
  • Ask

• That’s what she was, Joanna felt suddenly. That’s what they all were, all the Stepford wives: actresses in commercials, pleased with detergents and floor wax, with cleansers, shampoos, and deodorants. Pretty actresses, big in the bosom but small in the talent, playing housewives unconvincingly, too nicey-nice to be real.

  

  Ira Levin
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