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

• A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Book
  • Kind
  • Where

• 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

• When you get out of school, you just go where the wind blows: Here's an audition; there's an audition. And before you know it, you're where you're supposed to be. And that was Second City.

  

  Jane Lynch
  • School
  • City
  • Wind

• Sanctification means being made one with Jesus so that the disposition that ruled Him will rule us. It will cost everything that is not of God in us.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Means

• I claim not to have controlled events, but confess plainly that events have controlled me. Now, at the end of three years struggle the nation's condition is not what either party, or any man devised, or expected. God alone can claim it. Whither it is tending seems plain. If God now wills the removal of a great wrong, and wills also that we of the North as well as you of the South, shall pay fairly for our complicity in that wrong, impartial history will find therein new cause to attest and revere the justice and goodness of God.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • God
  • Justice
  • Events

• I think what the book did in addition to its practical uses, is it gave us a more attentive way of thinking.

  

  Nicholas G. Carr
  • Thinking
  • Book
  • Uses

• When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask myself if I love Him.

  

  Elisabeth Elliot
  • God
  • I Love
  • Obedience

• 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