Sam Levenson Quotes

It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

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• You only get one chance in this thing called life. I know that is a bit maudlin and obscure, but it's a fact, and you can make a profound difference in people's lives without having a title in front of your name.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • People
  • Life
  • Chance

• Why you kill me? I never did you anything. Not kill me! I beg not to be locked up. Never let me out of my prison - not kill me! You kill me before I understand what life is. You must tell me why you locked me up!

  

  Kaspar Hauser
  • Life
  • Understand
  • Kill

• I have a deep and ongoing love of Iceland, particular the landscape, and when writing 'Burial Rites,' I was constantly trying to see whether I could distill its extraordinary and ineffable qualities into a kind of poetry.

  

  Hannah Kent
  • Writing
  • Poetry
  • Qualities

• I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• I have not seen 'Vaalu' yet, but I am sure it will be good.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Good
  • Vaalu

• There's not some idea I'm going to create a work that's going to change everybody's consciousness.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Work
  • Change
  • Consciousness

• I am not a Ph.D. in economics or a doctorate in literature that I can afford to take my singing lightly. Even if I sing a jingle, I take it as seriously as oxygen.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Seriously
  • Jingle

• The most annoying and full-of-crap thing a writer says is, 'I write only for myself, I don't care if anyone reads it.' A writer without a reader doesn't exist.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Myself
  • Care
  • Writer

• I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Life
  • History
  • Circumstances

• These are moments in your life to be cherished; they don't come around that often. To be flying around in a 'Game of Thrones' jet, to be greeted by massive enthusiasts.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Life
  • Game
  • Moments

• Death is the mother of Beauty; hence from her, alone, shall come fulfillment to our dreams and our desires.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Mother
  • Death
  • Alone

• Born Berlin 1931, Germany, father a British diplomat, mother an American artist. Educated at various schools all over the world. 1958 Settled down to live in London. 1966 Became interested in photography through photographing my young children. No formal training.

  

  Fay Godwin
  • World
  • Live
  • Children

• As it is, relationships are difficult, aren't they?

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Difficult
  • Relationships

• I'm fine, except, you know, I broke my pelvis. And that's not much fun.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Fun
  • You
  • Know

• Mass layoffs produce big winners and losers. Most workers who remain are financially unscathed, even though their employer is struggling.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Winners
  • Losers
  • Employer

• I booked my first series when I was 13. Acting kind of took control because I was just going from part to part at that point.

  

  Vanessa Morgan
  • Control
  • Kind
  • Acting

• I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Done
  • Path
  • Follow

• I hate Valentine's day. It is a day for nothing but disappointment.

  

  Larisa Oleynik
  • Hate
  • Day
  • Disappointment

• I really like Rag & Bone because they make simple pieces that last.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • Simple

• To take something from a person and keep it for oneself: that is robbery. To take something from one person and then turn it over to another in exchange for as much money as you can get: that is business. Robbery is so much more stupid, since it is satisfied with a single, frequently dangerous profit; whereas in business it can be doubled without danger.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • Money
  • Business
  • Single

• In general admittedly the Wise of all times have always said the same thing, and the fools, that is to say the vast majority of all times, have always done the same thing, i.e. the opposite; and so it will remain in the future.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Time
  • Wise
  • Thing

• See?" Fezzik pointed then. Far down, at the very bottom of the mountain path, the man in black could be seen running. "Inigo is beaten." Inconceivable!" exploded the Sicilian. Fezzik never dared disagree with the hunchback. "I'm so stupid," Fezzik nodded. "Inigo has not lost to the man in black, he has defeated him. And to prove it he has put on all the man in black's clothes and masks and hoods and boots and gained eighty pounds.

  

  William Goldman
  • Men
  • Black
  • Running

• It's so simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Simple
  • Wise
  • Stupid