Ishua Levan Quotes

#1. Much later I realized that Russian people, because of the poverty and squalor of their lives, love to amuse themselves with sorrow--to play with it like children, and are seldom ashamed of being unhappy.

Maxim Gorky

#2. I'm staring into chocolate eyes. although my brain is clouded
and I'm dizzy, I know enough to register that chocolate is the
opposite of blue. I don't want blue. Blue confuses me too much.
Chocolate is straight-forward, easier to deal with.

Simone Elkeles

#3. When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.

Barbara Tuchman

#4. You dramatically increase your value to others if you always maintain a calm and pleasant manner.

Daniel Lapin

#5. I'm my own worst enemy and I know that.

Lindsay Lohan

#6. Life is a voyage, and we are all sailing under sealed orders. We plan, plot, scheme and arrange, and some fine day Fate steps in and our dreams are tossed into the yeasty deep. We grin and bear it
anyway we bear it: it is the only thing to do.

Elbert Hubbard

#7. Even the most casual study of the record ... would show that strange times to be a Jew have almost always been, as well, strange times to be a chicken.

Michael Chabon

#8. Let your critics make you humble, and your enemies make you wise. Learn from every stumble but let nothing keep you down, for you were born to rise!

Cory Booker

#9. For every action there is a reaction. Karma can be examined within the structure of an hour, a year, a lifetime, a thousand lifetimes.

Frederick Lenz

#10. Competition [in a scene] is healthy. Competition is life. Yet most actors refuse to acknowledge this. They don't want to compete. They want to get along. And they are therefore not first-rate actors.

Michael Shurtleff

#11. Arithmetic must be discovered in just the same sense in which Columbus discovered the West Indies, and we no more create numbers than he created the Indians.

Bertrand Russell

#12. Courtesy is the foundation of all good manners.

William Riley Brooksher

#13. Marveling yet again at the way the very same things that cause him to grind his teeth-with a different lens, a tighter focus, better lighting-look like love.

Maud Casey

#14. When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me - I listened.

Aung San Suu Kyi

#15. What the hell do you want to work for somebody else for? Work for yourself!

George Gershwin