Max Levis Quotes & Sayings

As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the quality of intellectual life in my field is much higher at Harvard. The students work harder there. — Niall Ferguson

because it was a drunken perception, it was perfect, entire, and lasted about half a second. I — Michael Chabon

Remember how you used to be able to feel your bed breathing and the walls spinning when you were a kid? — Lynda Barry

If I could predict what my day would exactly look like, I would feel a little bit dead. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The rain is falling all around, It falls on field and tree, It rains on the umbrellas here, And on the ships at sea. - Rain — Robert Louis Stevenson

The way the creative process works is that .you first say something, and later, sometimes years later, you understand what you said. — Michael Lewis

There was an aura about King that was unforgettable. I seem him now in my mind's eye: collected, peaceful, calm. He was in his element and totally in command of himself and the situation. — Junius Williams

Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification. — Aldous Huxley

I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing — Doris Lessing

Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side. — George William Russell

Will had never wanted to fall in love. When it had happened to friends, it had always struck him as a peculiarly unpleasant-seeming experience, what with all the loss of sleep and weight, and the unhappiness when it was reciprocated, and the suspect, dippy happiness when it was working out. — Nick Hornby

My mother would work 14 hours, and she'd come home, and she'd just get right into cooking ... she wanted to make sure my brother, my sister and I had food in our bellies. — Michelle Phan