Andrea Levy Quotes

Why you wan' the whole world when ya have a likkle piece a hope here? Stay. Stay and fight, man. Fight till you look 'pon what you wan' see.

Andrea Levy

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• My autobiography is a digressive illustration and exemplification of what race has meant in the world in the 19th and 20th centuries.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Race
  • Autobiography

• Hearing voices no one else can hear isn't a good sign, even in the wizarding world.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • World
  • Good
  • Hearing

• I actually love doing period pieces, purely because it takes you into a different world, mentally. The clothes you have to wear are so far from our everyday clothes that it immediately helps with the character and putting you in that mind frame.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • World
  • Mind
  • Wear

• You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • World
  • You
  • More

• The world is in motion, as it seems.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • World
  • Seems
  • Motion

• You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office; even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

  

  Karel Capek
  • World
  • Government
  • Universe

• The more important argument against grade curves is that they create an atmosphere that's toxic by pitting students against one another. At best, it creates a hypercompetitive culture, and at worst, it sends students the message that the world is a zero-sum game: Your success means my failure.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Important
  • Game

• My mother would never let me in the kitchen. I always wanted to cook, but I was never allowed to. Her view of the world was, 'Cooking is my job, and studying is your job.' I think, in retrospect, she didn't like the chaos. She was very orderly. It had to be her way.

  

  Ina Garten
  • World
  • She
  • Job

• I've been having meetings with people, just everywhere in the world, and it's like, 'Hey, really love you to work with me, send me some ideas.' That's the crazy part.

  

  Flume
  • People
  • World
  • Like

• There are a lot of times that we feel like our hands are tied - 'I have no control over if I'm going to lose my job.' 'I have no control over if I'm going to be able to pay my bills.' You've got to realize that that's where your trust comes in. You have to trust God, and keep your hope, because your hope is what produces your faith.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Job
  • Hope

• You must be the change you wish to see in the world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • World
  • Change
  • Wish

• Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes,And pause a while from learning to be wise.There mark what ills the scholar's life assail - Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • World
  • Eyes

• We for a certainty are not the firstHave sat in taverns while the tempest hurledTheir hopeful plans to emptiness, and cursedWhatever brute and blackguard made the world.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • World

• Well, the problem I've had with all the interviews I've had in America - I had meetings with about nine labels - and they all say to me 'Will your new songs fit in with what is popular and what is in the chart?' And I say 'Good God, I hope not!'

  

  Morrissey The Smiths
  • Good
  • God
  • America

• There is nothing in the world I wouldn't do for Hope, and there is nothing he wouldn't do for me... We spend our lives doing nothing for each other.

  

  Bing Crosby
  • World
  • Hope

• The advertising world had space men in it before spacemen existed.

  

  Fred Allen
  • World
  • Men
  • Space

• I am thrilled to be working with Gucci and especially happy to be playing a part in their timely return to the equestrian world.

  

  Charlotte Casiraghi
  • World
  • Happy

• I'm a pretty average guy and want to keep a low profile. I don't want the world necessarily to know about me.

  

  Edward Whitacre, Jr.
  • World
  • Guy
  • Pretty

• Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

  

  J. Donald Walters
  • True
  • Understanding
  • Happiness

• In some Old Testament books, it's very evident that an editor has been at work. That's quite all right. It's part of the process.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Work
  • Process
  • Old

• If we're going to have an unconventional budget, we probably need an unconventional process to get there.

  

  Anthony Foxx

• I started, actually, as an analyst on African affairs, mainly on Al Jazeera. I remember the first few series were about Saudi students, and the negotiations between the government and the Sudanese rebels in the south. And then, slowly, I was speaking about Congo, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zimbabwe, Mozambique and a few other places.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • Remember
  • Government
  • First

• The biggest mistake people make is to try to lose too much weight too fast.

  

  Mehmet Oz
  • People
  • Mistake

• Why you wan' the whole world when ya have a likkle piece a hope here? Stay. Stay and fight, man. Fight till you look 'pon what you wan' see.

  

  Andrea Levy
  • World
  • Hope
  • Fight