Irving Layton Quotes

We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

Irving Layton

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• At first blush, it seems odd that loser lit books are rejected initially, then go on to be fiercely loved by legions of readers. This apparent contradiction might be due to the fact that if they didn't screw up their lives, most losers would be the kind of power-elite, Type A go-getters whom readers love to hate.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Up
  • Love
  • Power

• I love being in the editing room and playing with tempo and with the rhythm of shots.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Love
  • Rhythm
  • Editing

• People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.

  

  Sam Taylor-Wood
  • People
  • Heart
  • Love

• Let me tell you something - being thought of as a beautiful woman has spared me nothing in life. No heartache, no trouble. Love has been difficult. Beauty is essentially meaningless and it is always transitory.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Love
  • Beautiful

• I love Winston Churchill; I think he had the grace of coming and the grace of leaving - when things were hard he was there, and when it was time to leave, he left.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Time
  • Love
  • Think

• I started to write a lot of ballads that were sultry and had a Norah Jones-for-country kind of feel. I wanted to bring elements of old soul music and old country music.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Music
  • Country
  • Soul

• People love to be told what they know already.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Love
  • Know

• I love diamond facials - they leave me glowing and refreshed.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Love
  • Diamond
  • Glowing

• People have told me that they cannot put down 'If I Stay' after reading it, and readers have become very invested in the love story between Adam and Mia.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • People
  • Love
  • Reading

• I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.

  

  Yuna
  • World
  • Music
  • God

• If you don't love something, it's not functional, in my opinion.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Love
  • Opinion
  • Functional

• I would love to do a 'Scream'-type movie.

  

  Abigail Breslin
  • Movie
  • Type
  • Scream

• My mom is awesome. She's really young. My mom is 40, and she raised me listening to Nirvana and Courtney Love and Coldplay, Gin Blossoms, The Cranberries, and stuff. Like, my early, early memories are of being a little kid running around in floral skirts and Doc Martens when I was, like, three.

  

  Halsey
  • Mom
  • Memories
  • Awesome

• Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.

  

  Ed Helms
  • Love
  • Done
  • See

• I was never a big fan of horror. I got into it making these films, but I don't ever see myself doing slasher movies. The kind of horror film I like is 'The Shining.' I don't really like slashers, but I love thrillers with tension.

  

  Caity Lotz
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Movies

• At some point, you decide to take something you really like and turn it into a business you love.

  

  Isaac Hanson Hanson
  • Business
  • Like
  • Point

• I love talking to people, hearing people's stories; I love honest things.

  

  Tali Lennox
  • People
  • Love
  • Honest

• True love bears all, endures all and triumphs!

  

  Dada Vaswani
  • For Her
  • For Him
  • True Love

• A lot of my songs are about taking whatever life throws at you and making the most of it.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • Life
  • You
  • Whatever

• It's really nice to be in something that you really love and want to share with people. And then, for it to actually get shown and for people to be able to see it is awesome. It's really exciting.

  

  Kate Mara
  • People
  • Love
  • Exciting

• As things mature - whether they be real estate, rock n' roll, politics, festivals, radio - there's an efficiency that develops, and with it, very often, comes some soul-crushing truths.

  

  James Murphy
  • Real
  • Soul
  • Rock

• Lo! body and soul!--this land! Mighty Manhattan, with spires, and The sparkling and hurrying tides, and the ships; The varied and ample land,--the South And the North in the light--Ohio's shores, and flashing Missouri, And ever the far-spreading prairies, covered with grass and corn.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Soul
  • Light
  • Land

• One of my favorite ways to find fictional inspiration, by the way, is to browse historical timelines. I also like world atlases - any country with a squiggly coastline seems to inspire me, as do visual dictionaries, those reclusive creatures of the reference shelf.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Inspiration
  • Shelf
  • Timelines

• We love in another's soul whatever of ourselves we can deposit in it; the greater the deposit, the greater the love.

  

  Irving Layton
  • Love
  • Soul
  • Whatever