Andrea Levy Quotes

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• I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Intellectual
  • Intense
  • Cricketer

• I can't figure out how you can draft players for a coach that you know coaches a certain a style, and was successful doing that style, and get him to play a style that you feel comfortable with.

  

  Larry Brown
  • Know
  • Style
  • Successful

• Design must be functional, and functionality must be translated into visual aesthetics without any reliance on gimmicks that have to be explained.

  

  Ferdinand Porsche
  • Design
  • Without
  • Visual

• It's time Hawaii answer doubters and produce documents proving that it is a state. What are they hiding? And why haven't we seen these documents?

  

  Adam McKay
  • Time
  • Why
  • Hawaii

• Unfortunately, little attention was paid to how Arafat ruled. In fact, some saw the harsh and repressive nature of Arafat's regime as actually bolstering the prospects for peace.

  

  Natan Sharansky
  • Nature
  • Peace
  • Attention

• When you come right down to it, I guess I really am pretty bland.

  

  Dale Murphy
  • Pretty
  • You
  • Right

• This was more than just a cow - this was an entire career I was looking at.

  

  Gary Larson
  • Career
  • Looking
  • Cow

• I know just one thing is those guys, KG and everyone, they're hungry. They want it bad. Sam's the only one that's had that, has the ring. Other than him, everybody else over there, we want it bad.

  

  Latrell Sprewell
  • Bad
  • Want
  • Know

• Without the Fender bass, there'd be no rock n' roll or no Motown. The electric guitar had been waiting 'round since 1939 for a nice partner to come along. It became an electric rhythm section, and that changed everything.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Nice
  • Rock
  • Waiting

• Florentine had grown more or less immune to the charms of spring.

  

  Gabrielle Roy
  • Spring

• I think that living in Indonesia also reminded me how big the world is, you know, I've... Indonesia such a big country, such a diverse country and so many different people there and it reminded me that we have to have a broad view of the world and recognize that we all are interconnected and that's very important...

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.

  

  Samuel Johnson

• Jock, when ye hae naething else to do, ye may be ay sticking in a tree; it will be growing, Jock, when ye're sleeping.

  

  Walter Scott
  • May
  • Growing
  • Tree

• But she wears short skirts, I wear t-shirts.She's cheer captain and I'm on the bleachers,Dreaming 'bout the day when you wake up and findThat what you're lookin' for has been here the whole time.If you could see that I'm the one who understands you,Been here all along so why can't you see?You belong with me;You belong with me.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Up
  • Time
  • Why

• 'Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a dangerous enemy indeed.'

  

  Anne Rice
  • Interesting
  • Enemy

• There's an, oh such a hungry yearning burning inside of me.

  

  Cole Porter

• … the beast made the noise of a cat being shampooed, a lonely wail of horror and outrage, of shame and defeat.

  

  Neil Gaiman
  • Lonely
  • Cat

• On the other hand, I have devoted so much energy to reach the top that I accept the stress of being there.

  

  Placido Domingo
  • Energy
  • Hand
  • Stress

• When people talk to me about tyranny, it makes me laugh and gives me the impression that people suffer from amnesia.

  

  Jean-Claude Duvalier
  • People

• Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Running
  • Water
  • Deception

• Friendships born on the field of athletic strife are the real gold of competition. Awards become corroded, friends gather no dust.

  

  Jesse Owens
  • Real
  • Friends
  • Competition

• I feel like my competition is everything else that's competing for people's attention, not just other print magazines, newspapers and cable. It's your kid's report card and the games you want to play, all the things that compete for people's time.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • People
  • Time
  • Attention

• Paved with gold, no - but, yes, diamonds appear on the ground in the rain.

  

  Andrea Levy
  • Gold
  • Rain
  • Diamonds