Lev Grossman Quotes

I recognize that on paper, you can't really tell that I'm a fan or a nerd.

Lev Grossman

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• Because we're able to adjust for compatibility - and what that means is we've already normalized for how well we think each person is going to get along with the other person - the only factor left in determining response rate, really, is the aesthetic appearance of the person who sent you that message.

  

  Sam Yagan
  • Think
  • Aesthetic
  • Appearance

• My father really told me, seriously, if you want something, you can have it, but you may have to work harder than anyone else around you.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Work
  • May
  • Father

• The bad reviews get to me, believe me.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Believe
  • Bad
  • Me

• It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.

  

  Barbara Cooney
  • Life
  • Me
  • Sense

• The burden for achieving disarmament cannot be borne by peace groups alone. Everybody, regardless of age, income, profession, gender or nationality, has a stake in this quest.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Age
  • Peace
  • Alone

• The minute I saw the front page of the 'Daily Telegraph' - me with my arm around the latest 'X-Factor' contestant - I realised I'd gone into a new realm.

  

  Flume
  • Me
  • Daily
  • Page

• I've done literally 100, 150 different characters. Some of them have only appeared for a line or three. But the point is, every sound I can make has been harvested.

  

  Hank Azaria
  • Different
  • Done
  • Sound

• L.A. is so big that if you don't actually live in Hollywood, you might as well be from a different planet.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Different
  • Live
  • You

• When I'm doing a movie, I'm not doing anything else. It's all about the movie. I don't have a wife. I don't have a kid. Nothing can get in my way... I've made a choice, so far, to go on this road alone. Because this is my time. This is my time to make movies.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Alone

• The American people will eventually get hurt by this accumulated deficit. That's the problem. We have too much deficit. We have to find a solution.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • American
  • Problem

• Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Simple
  • Beauty
  • Stand

• Bravery is the capacity to perform properly even when scared half to death.

  

  Omar N. Bradley
  • Death
  • Courage
  • Bravery

• Imagine if all of life were determined by majority rule. Every meal would be a pizza. Every pair of pants, even those in a Brooks Brothers suit, would be stone-washed denim. Celebrity diet and exercise books would be the only thing on the shelves at the library. And - since women are a majority of the population - we'd all be married to Mel Gibson.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Women
  • Exercise

• Je n'admets pas qu'une femme puisse dessiner comme ca.

  

  Edgar Degas

• At a very young age I was predicting outcomes, trying to take all the information and find the best route to wherever I was going. I avoided a lot of pitfalls because of that.

  

  Jennifer Carpenter
  • Trying
  • Age

• When you're in the public eye, we all feel like we're constantly observed, so we don't let things out. Anger, sadness, happiness - when does that come out? Maybe when you're in traffic, because you're in the safety of your little metallic bubble.

  

  Alexander Skarsgard
  • Safety

• It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Die

• I'm happy to be at home with the kids, in my flannel pajamas; that's a treat.

  

  Patsy Kensit
  • Home
  • Kids
  • Happy

• I wrote a great deal of a novel, 'Winter's Tale,' on the roof of a Brooklyn Heights tenement on Henry Street. I was a technical climber, and now and then I would put down my manuscript and get up to walk along parapets and climb walls and chimneys.

  

  Mark Helprin
  • Up
  • Great
  • Winter

• I'm not a nerd, I play one on TV.

  

  Curtis Armstrong
  • Nerd

• I don't consider myself a nerd; I consider myself a dork more. I'm closer to a dork, if anything, just because I'm not good at stuff. I'm more like a failed non-nerd.

  

  Josh Gondelman
  • Consider
  • Nerd
  • Failed

• Work is no longer challenging.

  

  John Belushi
  • Work

• When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy.

  

  Alexei Navalny
  • Men
  • Political
  • Everyday

• I recognize that on paper, you can't really tell that I'm a fan or a nerd.

  

  Lev Grossman
  • Nerd