Levelers Quotes & Sayings

Books are true levelers. They give to all, who will faithfully use them, the society, the spiritual presence, of the best and greatest of our race. — William Ellery Channing

The first thing I do each morning is get out of bed and give my dog, Audrey, a hug. She's a Jack Russell. I think having an animal is a wonderful thing, particularly dogs. They are great levelers, there's no nonsense with them, and they just want simple affection. — Donatella Versace

If there was anything I'd learned, it's that the man never chooses the woman. All he can do is give her an opportunity to choose him. — Neil Strauss

They were all becoming brothers, in the manner he had seen before: facing death together was the greatest of levelers. — Tad Williams

I always told my team, "You have to believe that you are not in front of a computer, but that your canvas is a piece of paper. You have to believe this even if you have a computer in front of you." — Alex Abreu

Each time I step on the basketball court, I never know what will happen. I live for the moment. I play for the moment. — Michael Jordan

Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another human being. We possess the books we read, animating the waiting stillness of their language, but they possess us also, filling us with thoughts and observations, asking us to make them part of ourselves. — David L. Ulin

It's fun to look at people that are so good at acting that aren't actors, like David Bowie creating a mystique about rock n' roll. I've listened to 'Ziggy Stardust' as much as any rock n' roll fan - I don't really know what it's about, but it sure is fun to think about David Bowie as this mad creation. — Val Kilmer

But there is one way in this country in which all men are created equal- there is one human institution that makes a pauper the equal of a Rockefeller, the stupid man the equal of an Einstein, and the ignorant man the equal of any college president. That institution gentlemen, is a court. It can be the Supreme Court of the United States or the humblest JP court in the land, or this honourable court which you serve. Our courts have their faults as does any human institution, but in this country our courts are the great levelers, and in our courts all men are created equal — Harper Lee

Algebra and money are essentially levelers; the first intellectually, the second effectively. — Simone Weil

Forgiveness is the ultimate expression of God's unique beauty. — Matt Chandler

Maybe authors shouldn't write more than one or two books. Maybe you just keep writing the same book over and over anyway. — Adam Langer