Lev Grossman Quotes

I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just because I'm a weird person.

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• The reforms proposed by the Patent Reform Act of 2007 are precisely the type of congressional action needed. The Act will remove obstacles to growth and restore balance to the patent system.

  

  Viet D. Dinh
  • Action
  • Growth
  • Balance

• A sack is way better than any nightclub. A touchdown is way better than any bar experience I've ever had.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Experience
  • Way
  • Better

• I did not have three thousand pairs of shoes, I had one thousand and sixty.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Funny
  • Shoes
  • Three

• Insight enables you make sure you don't allow negative beliefs to get permanently set in your thinking - just the same way you wouldn't want fractured bones to be permanently set into place.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Negative

• I want to give my followers a positive message. I want to give those girls a positive message who have been forcefully married, who continue to sacrifice. I want to be an example for those people. That's my aim.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • People
  • Positive
  • Sacrifice

• I've been accused of wanting to allow terrorists to have weapons to attack America.

  

  Rand Paul
  • America
  • Weapons
  • Allow

• I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Song
  • Man
  • Dance

• My heart is mysteriously alive in the world of sounds - a totally different dimension from the daily life.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• I've always gone for the more sensitive, bookish guy, totally. The jock boys, the sporty guys, I don't know... they just didn't do it for me.

  

  Laura Ramsey
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Me

• Afghanistan has moved forward and Afghanistan will defend itself. And the progress that we have achieved, the Afghan people will not allow it to be put back or reversed.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • People
  • Progress
  • Forward

• I'm a slow starter.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Slow
  • Starter

• I didn't understand key signatures or anything, you know. I'd say silly things at the top of a trumpet part like, 'Note, when you play B naturals, make the B naturals a half step lower because they sound funny if they're B naturals.' And some guy said: 'Idiot, just put a flat on the third line and it's a key signature, you know?'

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Guy
  • Funny
  • Silly

• I want to collect more records from terrorists, but less records from innocent Americans. The Fourth Amendment was what we fought the Revolution over! John Adams said it was the spark that led to our war for independence, and I'm proud of standing for the Bill of Rights, and I will continue to stand for the Bill of Rights.

  

  Rand Paul
  • War
  • Proud
  • Revolution

• I admire all people who are trying to be a good power in this chaotic world.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.

  

  Orville Redenbacher
  • Depression
  • Corn
  • Divert

• I find that the time that goes by is actually your best friend when you are making a record. The passing of time gives you perspective on what you recorded and what you wrote. If something sounds good to you 12 months after you recorded it then chances are pretty good that there's something valuable about the part or the song.

  

  M. Ward
  • Time
  • Good
  • Pretty

• Life is more important than 'what film I do next.'

  

  Aaron Johnson
  • Life
  • Important
  • Film

• I've worked my whole life and never missed a deadline.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Life
  • Work
  • Deadline

• Some of my clothes are things that we'd play dress up with when we were little, and it's funny that now I'm wearing it, like, as an everyday thing. But if I say 'vintage' or 'thrifted' on the blog, there's this community of fashion bloggers, and I've become sort of tight with some of them, and we, like, just send each other packages.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • Up
  • Funny
  • Community

• Pimenton gets its intense flavor because it is dried over wood smoke. You can try hot, sweet or bittersweet, though sweet is probably the most commonly used.

  

  Jose Andres
  • Sweet

• You read a lot of crap about photographic craftsmanship in those days, and technique; but you didnt hear shit about vision. I knew that I had an eye, a gift for seeing where the ripped edges of the world begin to peel away and something else shows through.

  

  Elizabeth Hand
  • World
  • Vision

• Line dancing is as sinful as any other type of dancing, with its sexual gestures and touching. It is an incitement to lust.

  

  Ian Paisley
  • Dancing
  • Line
  • Sinful

• I'm not one of your knockabout, knuckle-scarred, Internet-controversy-courting book critics. Occasionally I stumble into controversy accidentally, but not because I enjoy it. It's probably just because I'm a weird person.

  

  Lev Grossman
  • Book
  • Weird