Philip Levine Quotes

No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

Philip Levine

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• The future ain't what it used to be.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Future
  • Used

• You can give some kind of spark of life to a comic that a photograph doesn't really have. A photograph, even if it's connecting with you, it seems very dead on the page sometimes.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Life
  • Page
  • Spark

• Some people are embarrassed to say they came from East St. Louis, Ill., but now more people want to claim it. I grew up in a community center and I knew what it gave me. I always knew I wanted to give back and help people because people helped me.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • People
  • Up
  • Help

• Nothing is stranger to man than his own image.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Man
  • Nothing
  • Own

• People will tell you anything but what they do is always the truth.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Truth
  • You

• I joke that my niche in Hollywood has been naked foreigners.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Hollywood
  • Joke
  • Naked

• 'Bloo' is a compilation of a few songs I've written over the past year, inspired by the necessity of finding happiness in the people I choose to surround myself with.

  

  Kacy Hill
  • People
  • Past
  • Myself

• You not only have to know your own instrument, you must know the others and how to back them up at all times. That's jazz.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • Up
  • You
  • Know

• I'm Irish. I think about death all the time.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Time
  • Think
  • Death

• A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Man
  • Kind
  • Trust

• Middle age is when you're sitting at home on a Saturday night and the telephone rings and you hope it isn't for you.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Home
  • Hope
  • Age

• The only thing I have is instinct and intuition and just staying very, very connected to the moments and try to bring in what your gut is telling you.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Moments
  • Try
  • Intuition

• You think I'm going to ask these sweet 14 year olds to ask their parents to buy a $100 ticket then run around in latex and lip sync? No way.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Parents
  • Sweet
  • Year

• The shining star in the world is Shanghai. That's what CEOs from big companies say - 'if I want mathematical analytical work done, it's done in China.'

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Work
  • Done

• I'm pretty goofy. I laugh at my own jokes.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Pretty
  • Laugh
  • My Own

• So I won an Oscar. It's amazing. I've got that for the rest of my life for a performance I am proud of. It nearly killed me. I am really proud of the film. That's it, moving on.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Life
  • Amazing
  • Moving

• You can take anything, and if you explore it right, you can make it funny.

  

  Kaitlin Olson
  • You
  • Funny
  • Explore

• My dream tour would be like, me, Cole, Drake, Sean, Meek. I think that would be dope, something like that; big venues.

  

  Wale
  • Think
  • Dream
  • Dope

• Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Reading

• Fear not because your prayer is stammering, your words feeble, and your language poor. Jesus can understand you.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • Words
  • Fear
  • Jesus

• Profit is not the legitimate purpose of business. The legitimate purpose of business is to provide a product or service that people need and do it so well that it's profitable.

  

  James Rouse
  • People
  • Business
  • Purpose

• 'Brown Girl Dreaming' was a book I had a lot of doubts about - mainly, would this story be meaningful to anyone besides me? My editor, Nancy Paulsen, kept assuring me, but there were moments when I was in a really sad place with the story for so many reasons. It wasn't an easy book to write - emotionally, physically, or creatively.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Book
  • Girl
  • Moments

• When you start a novel, it is always like pushing a boulder uphill. Then, after a while, to mangle the metaphor, the boulder fills with helium and becomes a balloon that carries you the rest of the way to the top. You just have to hold your nerve and trust to narrative.

  

  Jim Crace
  • Rest
  • Trust

• No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

  

  Philip Levine