Levitan Modern Quotes & Sayings

With drama, especially, it seems like the bigger the budgets and the edgier the characters, the more interesting they are. We're very lucky because 'Modern Family' wouldn't fit on cable: they'd want us to push it more and be edgier and turn it into something that it's not. — Steven Levitan

I think that people with differing points of view find common ground in 'Modern Family' is very flattering, and I'm appreciative of that. — Steven Levitan

May heaven have mercy on the European intellect if one wanted to subtract the Jewish intellect from it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

At first I thought I'd walked into a tree, but then that tree became a person, who was also recovering on the ground, and then I saw that it was her and she saw that it was me ... — Jonathan Safran Foer

She was like milk - too pale, too pure, too simple. She was made to be spoiled. — Sarah Waters

I've stopped listening. Why haven't you stopped talking? — Steve Callaghan

Though the live-oak glistens there in Louisiana solitary in a wide flat space,
Uttering joyous leaves all its life without a friend a lover near,
I know very well I could not."
- from "I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing — Walt Whitman

I don't spend much time regretting the past, once I've taken my lesson from it. I don't dwell on it. — Charlie Munger

She is a deer, wounded and run to earth, not dead yet, but waiting for the final shot. — Frances Washburn

I enjoyed every minute of what I was doing with sessions, because The Blossoms, the group that I was singing with, they were the first black background singers. There weren't any. — Darlene Love

Culture now spreads at central nervous system speed. It's a shame that compassion doesn't. — Dean Cavanagh

Right now the producers of 'Modern Family' have no idea how many people watch our show each week on all platforms, and nobody seems to want to tell us. If a disproportionate number of any show's viewers watch in alternative ways, then, under the current system, that show may not appear to be as strong as it actually is. — Steven Levitan

I want you - " he started.
I glowered, pressing the chair leg into his neck. "I would die before I let you touch me."
"What an improvement. First it was me who would die. Now it is
you who offers to die before touching me," he said. "Another man might be insulted. Now, if you would allow me to finish - "
I glared. — Roshani Chokshi

I think every time there's a show like 'Modern Family' or 'Will & Grace' that portray gay and lesbian characters and is successful, it just further opens the door. — Steven Levitan

Nowadays we have so many things that take our attention - phones, Internet - and perhaps we need to disconnect from those and focus on the immediate world around us and the people that are actually present. — Nicholas Hoult

As a leader, these attributes - confidence, perseverance, work ethic and good sense - are all things I look for in people. I also try to lead by example and create an environment where good questions and good ideas can come from anyone. — Heather Bresch

I admire anyone who rids himself of an addiction. — Gene Tierney