Sander Levin Quotes

Power, that's one thing, but love of family and of siblings is more important, is more powerful than any other power - at least earthly power, at least earthly power.

Sander Levin

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• I've always felt it's ridiculous to say, of any of the females in my life: You're my friend, you're my wife, you're my girlfriend, you're my co-worker. This is your box, and you're not allowed to stray outside of it.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Life
  • Friend
  • Wife

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• Here in Indiana and in many states throughout the union, we rely on coal to power our homes and provide good-paying middle class jobs - like the one my family relied on when I was a kid. The coal mine helped put food on our table and helped me pursue an education and realize the American Dream.

  

  Larry Bucshon
  • Good
  • Family
  • Power

• Well, softness and femininity like yours people don't expect of me; so when they find me emotional and capable of real vulnerability, they're surprised.

  

  Faye Dunaway
  • People
  • Me
  • Emotional

• I've played so many different parts in the last 40 years.

  

  Patrick Troughton
  • Different
  • Years
  • Last

• America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • World
  • America
  • Living

• I do not welcome advice from actors; they are here to act.

  

  Otto Preminger
  • Advice
  • Act
  • Welcome

• The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Life
  • Success
  • Romantic

• One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Doing
  • Everything
  • Knowing

• On bad days, I think I'd like to be a plastic surgeon who goes to Third World countries and operates on children in villages with airlifts, and then I think, 'Yeah, right, I'm going to go back to undergraduate school and take all the biology I missed and then go to medical school.' No. No.

  

  Tama Janowitz
  • World
  • Children
  • School

• What sought they thus afar?Bright jewels of the mine,The wealth of seas, the spoils of war?They sought a faith's pure shrine.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • War
  • Faith

• To a large extent, the problems of poets are the problems of painters, and poets must often turn to the literature of painting for a discussion of their own problems.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Painting
  • Literature

• 'Trouble,' he chuckled. 'What does a boy like you know about trouble? I was in trouble afore you were born. I been in trouble you don’t even got words for.'

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Words
  • Boy

• A change came o'er my Vision - it was night: We clove a pathway through a frantic throng: The steeds, wild-plunging, filled us with affright: The chariots whirled along.Within a marble hall a river ran - A living tide, half muslin and half cloth: And here one mourned a broken wreath or fan, Yet swallowed down her wrath

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Night
  • Vision
  • Broken

• A sense of blessedness comes from a change of heart, not from more blessings.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Heart

• People worry about Twitter. Twitter is banal. It's 140-character messages. By definition, you can hardly say anything profound. On the other hand, we communicate. And, sometimes, we communicate about things that are important.

  

  James Gleick
  • People
  • Important
  • Character

• I've always been good at talking about my feelings; that helps with writing songs.

  

  Anne-Marie
  • Good
  • Writing

• People on the street comment on how handsome I am. You know, people stop and say how angular my face is.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • People
  • Stop

• I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.

  

  Zac Efron
  • Home
  • Road
  • Been

• My dad says he has doubts all the time, but he doesn't allow them to question that moment when he was nineteen.

  

  Elna Baker
  • Question
  • Doubts
  • My Dad

• It's crazy that most high-end designers stop at a size 14.

  

  Jane Goldman
  • High
  • Stop
  • Crazy

• It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

  

  Norman Tebbit
  • Brain
  • Movement
  • Safe

• I was very impressed with the scope and scale and impact that came from originally one person making 'Minecraft.' It's inspiring for me to think how our team can do more with less.

  

  Jenova Chen
  • Team

• Power, that's one thing, but love of family and of siblings is more important, is more powerful than any other power - at least earthly power, at least earthly power.

  

  Sander Levin