Oscar Levant Quotes

I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.

Oscar Levant

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• I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Time
  • Know
  • New

• A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Nature
  • Way
  • Egg

• Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Nature
  • Harmony

• More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Future
  • Vision

• People are so wonderful that a photographer has only to wait for that breathless moment to capture what he wants on film.

  

  Weegee
  • People
  • Moment
  • Wait

• I loved theatre and film when I was growing up in Harpenden, Hertfordshire. My mum's a reflexologist and my dad's a corporate financier.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Up
  • Growing
  • Dad

• NASA should start thinking about this planet.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Thinking
  • Start
  • NASA

• What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Positive
  • Blood
  • White

• When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.

  

  Randy Johnson
  • Fun
  • Want
  • You

• Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • Good
  • Question
  • Poetry

• Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Wrong
  • Letter
  • DNA

• In the south, whether it is a small film or a big film, everybody sees it. So, there is always something for everybody to come, see, and enjoy.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Small
  • Always
  • Enjoy

• I think the films we see, the Hollywood films, which are basically entertainment, will still be there, but they'll be in a totally different category. People won't take them seriously. They'll kind of end up the way comic books have. A side view of things.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • People
  • Up
  • Different

• There are many cultural prejudices. For instance, even though fresh fish is a regional staple, Catalans don't like sashimi.

  

  Ferran Adria
  • Like
  • Fish
  • Fresh

• I read everything and anything. I love books.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Love
  • Books
  • Everything

• Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Most
  • Precious
  • Possessions

• I'm a foodie. I enjoy it a lot, and contrary to what it looks, I eat a lot. My comfort food, of all things, would be southern soul barbecue.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Soul
  • Food
  • Enjoy

• It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Atheist
  • Unfair
  • Humanist

• Galley Molina's a great inspiration and role model for a lot of young kids out there.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Kids
  • Model
  • Inspiration

• The more normal it gets for people to see people of a gender or skin tone they wouldn't expect in jobs that they wouldn't expect, or speaking a way they wouldn't expect them to, the more it cultivates a sense that we share more than separates us.

  

  Kelly McCreary
  • People

• I fly myself everywhere. I like all kinds of flying, including practical flying for search and rescue. And I also like to fly into the backcountry, usually the Frank Church Wilderness in Idaho. I go with a group of friends, and we set up camp for about five days and explore little dirt strips and canyons.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Up
  • Friends
  • Church

• I want to be a good steward and make sure what's in my heart is what God wants, and then once it's done and released, at that point it's up to God and what he does on the back end.

  

  Lauren Daigle
  • Up
  • Good
  • God

• I have said that the soul is not more than the body, And I have said that the body is not more than the soul, And nothing, not God, is greater to one than one's-self is.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • God
  • Soul
  • Self

• I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.

  

  Oscar Levant
  • God
  • Friends
  • Night