Amikam Levy Quotes & Sayings

Surely nothing is more reproachful to a being endowed with reason, than to resign its powers to the influence of the air, and live in dependence on the weather and the wind, for the only blessings which nature has put into our power, tranquillity and benevolence. To look up to the sky for the nutriment of our bodies, is the condition of nature; to call upon the sun for peace and gaiety, or deprecate the clouds lest sorrow should overwhelm us, is the cowardice of idleness, and the idolatry of folly. — Samuel Johnson

The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot of my characters, they don't notice they're getting made fun of. So they'll say something back that's not that great a quip, but in their mind they won the argument. — Adam Sandler

Let whoever is wise pay attention to these things and consider L the Lord's acts of faithful love. u — Anonymous

It is wonderful barefoot in New York. It is like walking on one big giant tomb! — Jeffrey Eugenides

It is a capital blunder; as you discover, when another man recites his charities. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

I enjoy the art, and I enjoy drawing. I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. — Nathan Fillion

He was also one of those boys so bursting with energy that he drained others of theirs. — Khaled Hosseini

Tell me, I say, is there some huge adult conspiracy where people lead unimaginably complex lives and pretend it's normal? — Meg Rosoff

I used to think that all my Wings stuff was second-rate stuff, but I began to meet younger kids, not kids from my Beatle generation, who would say, We really love this song. — Paul McCartney

'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps the calm Ideal, in the whispering chambers of Imagination.' — Charles Dickens

I am one with the Force," he said to himself and to the universe at once. — Greg Rucka

I don't go by the rule book ... I lead from the heart, not the head. — Princess Diana

The leaves on the Tree of Life are for the healing of the nations, but what are the fruits for?-They must be just for the pleasure of eating! — David Berg

We conquer the Independence Day aliens by having a Macintosh laptop computer upload a software virus to the mothership (which happens to be one-fifth the mass of the Moon), thus disarming its protective force field. I don't know about you, but back in 1996 I had trouble just uploading files to other computers within my own department, especially when the operating systems were different. There is only one solution: the entire defense system for the alien mothership must have been powered by the same release of Apple Computer's system software as the laptop computer that delivered the virus. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson