Leveller Media Quotes & Sayings

I like actors very much, but to marry one would be like marrying your brother. You look too much alike in the mirror. — Marilyn Monroe

To let God make us, instead of painfully trying to make ourselves; to follow the path that his love shows us, instead of through conceit or cowardice or mockery choosing another; to trust Him for our strength and fitness as the flowers do, simply giving ourselves back to Him in grateful service, - this is to keep the laws that give us the freedom of the city in which there is no longer any night of bewilderment or ignorance or uncertainty. — Sarah Orne Jewett

What a leveller this remote-control gizmo was ... it chopped down the heavyweight and stretched out the slight until all the set's emissions, commercials, murders, game-shows, the thousand and one varying joys and terrors of the real and the imagined, acquired an equal weight ... — Salman Rushdie

The longing of the mind is to be extraordinary. The ego thirsts and hungers for the recognition that you are somebody. Somebody achieves that dream through wealth, somebody else achieves that dream through power, politics, somebody else can achieve that dream through miracles, jugglery, but the dream remains the same: — Rajneesh

I love dancing; I adore salsa dancing and wish I could be in a Broadway chorus. — Mary Gordon

It felt good to be bad-nora — Ilsa Madden-Mills

Everything grows best in oxygen and sunlight except secrets and guilt and regrets. They — Catherine Ryan Hyde

You have to have a lot of money to go to college. It's not cheap. — Luke Evans

The purpose of human life is to serve and to show compassion and the will to help others. — Albert Schweitzer

When in doubt, bluff. — Sarah MacLean

Her veins and arteries ran with a bitter fluid, not blood, Adinath exclaimed in fury one day. — Neel Mukherjee

At present, the most effective way of preventing war would be for statesmen to direct politics so as to support a sound nationalism. This leads to concordance between people of kindred race and languages, whereas the conquest and coercion of people of different race and language inevitably lead to new wars. — Ellen Key

It was you and me, Tom. We did this to them. To us. — James Dashner

Also, there is a dedicated community of people in the world who will always be able to connect with each other across all languages, boundaries, and religions. It is the "Readers' Club." People who read a lot, starting at a very young age, are people who were raised by books. They have learned about forms of love and hate, kindness, respect, and ideas that are different from their own. They experience the world as something infinitely larger than before. They enjoy the indescribable feeling of having found their true selves. We readers are book people, and Jean Perdu [the protagonist] is one of us. We are all traveling on an invisible literary riverboat, one that carries us down the stream of life. It shapes, holds, and comforts us. At — Nina George

I think actors, at a certain point in their careers, decide they're either going to keep taking risks or take the exact same risk over and over again so that it's not a risk anymore. That's when I don't want to work with them. I think there are some actors who are just doing the exact same thing, and they will never shift from it. — Tom DiCillo

We are very happy. Or, no. We are not happy, exactly. But we love each other very much, and this charges our lives with shape and light. — Anne Enright