Jan Levinson Quotes

#1. With all the conveniences and clean simplicity we lived in, people had lost a lot of polish.

Kim Harrison

#2. What is a television apparatus to man, who has only to shut his eyes to see the most inaccessible regions of the seen and the never seen, who has only to imagine in order to pierce through walls and cause all the planetary Baghdads of his dreams to rise from the dust.

Salvador Dali

#3. Is the prison that Mr. Scoundrel lives in at the end of his career a more uncomfortable place than the workhouse that Mr. Honesty lives in at the end of his career?

Wilkie Collins

#4. The longer it takes you to select a cantaloupe, the worse it is!

Kin Hubbard

#5. Under pressure, the mouth speaks when the brain is disengaged, and, sometimes unwittingly, the gearshift is in reverse when it should be in neutral.

Henry Ford

#6. The difference between most mothers and me is that I didn't sit around drinking coffee at baby group for 12 months after the birth of my baby. No, in three weeks I was back in my suit, back at my desk earning profit for my business and I don't see why other women shouldn't do the same.

Katie Hopkins

#7. Dignity is something that all human beings have in common. We are all (all of us who have attained the "age of reason," that is) subject to its demands, whatever place in society we may happen to occupy, and it is this that gives us our inalienable inner value.

Michael Rosen

#8. The whale has no famous author, and whaling no famous chronicler, you will say.

Herman Melville

#9. It should be remembered that the president cannot, by executive order, do things that affects the public at large unless there is some Congressional basis for it.

Edwin Meese

#10. Presumably man's spirit should be elevated if he can better review his shady past and analyze more completely and objectively his present problems.

Vannevar Bush

#11. Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of this Christian order and Knights of that one, all surrounding the sinner's free will in an embattled circle.

Sean O'Casey