Top 69 Levant Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Levant

#1. There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant - nothing a miracle won't cure.

#2. The only non-believer I encountered was Oscar Levant who wouldn't visit Disneyland because he said he had his own hallucinations.

Jack Paar

#3. So in a sense, that little war in the Levant had a horrendous effect in terms of the stability of countries like Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Egypt, over the long term. Because once again, it proved to Muslims that their governments couldn't protect them and would side with the enemy.

Michael Scheuer

#4. Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

Kenneth Tynan

#5. [ ... ] one must have known the Levant to be able to conceive how readily persons intelligent and otherwise respectable will prefer a lie to the truth, when the slightest advantage is to be gained by the use of a falsehood.

George Perkins Marsh

#6. in the first recorded encounter between Sapiens and Neanderthals, the Neanderthals won. About 100,000 years ago, some Sapiens groups migrated north to the Levant, which was Neanderthal territory, but failed to secure a firm footing.

Yuval Noah Harari

#7. Many in Hollywood viewed the public persona of the young Debbie Reynolds as demure and vulnerable to be a complete facade. Pianist Oscar Levant once quipped, "She's as wistful as an iron factory."

Elizabeth Taylor

#8. There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix.

Alexander Woollcott

#9. I meant of course the whole portentous scrimmage of sex itself, the act of penetration which could lead a man to despair for the sake of a creature with two breasts and le croissant as the picturesque Levant slang has it.

Lawrence Durrell

#10. I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

Oscar Levant

#11. It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts.

Oscar Levant

#12. I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends ... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.

Oscar Levant

#13. I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

Oscar Levant

#14. It is a perverse faith, in that it reveres the "environment" ahead of people who live in it. It is a most ascetic superstition, in that it demands we live less happily and less freely and with less prosperity - the opposite of, say, the Protestant work ethic that helped build Ontario.

Ezra Levant

#15. I don't like to play the piano. It makes me too attractive.

Oscar Levant

#16. Debbie Reynolds is as wistful as an iron foundry.

Oscar Levant

#17. First I brush my teeth and then I sharpen my tongue.

Oscar Levant

#18. There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Oscar Levant

#19. Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

Oscar Levant

#20. I am no more humble than my talents require.

Oscar Levant

#21. Have I come at a bad time?" she managed to say without guffawing. I believe I said something on the order of "argh," and compounded my embarrassment by trying to cover myself with the sweatpants I'd picked up off the floor.

Jeffrey Cohen

#22. There, in the Levantine crossroads between Europe, Africa, and Asia, the sovereign nation of Israel would exemplify what right looks like.

James Mikolajczyk

#23. When I appeared before the draft board examiner during World War II, he asked me if I thought I could kill. "I don't know about strangers," I replied, "but friends, certainly."

Oscar Levant

#24. When I was young I looked like Al Capone, but I lacked his compassion.

Oscar Levant

#25. [Madame Nhu was] the Sandra Dee of South Vietnam. If I were cast on a desert island with her, I would quickly make friends with the natives.

Oscar Levant

#26. I'm a self-made man. Who else would help?

Oscar Levant

#27. The famous statue of Christ the Redeemer that overlooks Rio de Janeiro is only 130 feet tall. McGuinty's eco-idols [Wind Turbines] will be three times that height, but will serve the same imposing purpose.

Ezra Levant

#28. Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

Oscar Levant

#29. You can't possibly hear the last movement of Beethoven's Seventh and go slow. (Oscar trying to talk his way out of a speeding ticket)

Oscar Levant

#30. Talent's like a baby. Wrap it up in wool and it goes to sleep.

Oscar Levant

#31. In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great.

Oscar Levant

#32. Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

Oscar Levant

#33. Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

Oscar Levant

#34. So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

#35. I played an unsympathetic part
myself.

Oscar Levant

#36. A pun is the lowest form of humor - when you don't think of it first.

Oscar Levant

#37. I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.

Oscar Levant

#38. A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.

Oscar Levant

#39. I've changed, I'm nice to people and I'm not so self-centered. What I'm trying to do now is think of the other person. The only trouble is, I've found that the other person thinks only of himself.

Oscar Levant

#40. When I can't sleep, I read a book by Steve Allen.

Oscar Levant

#41. I'm controversial. My friends either dislike me or hate me

Oscar Levant

#42. What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.

Oscar Levant

#43. I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.

Oscar Levant

#44. My last picture for Warners was Romance on the High Seas. It was Doris Day's first picture; that was before she became a virgin.

Oscar Levant

#45. Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

Oscar Levant

#46. An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.

Oscar Levant

#47. I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.

Oscar Levant

#48. It'd be nice to please everyone but I thought it would be more interesting to have a point of view.

Oscar Levant

#49. I never read bad reviews about myself, because my friends invariably tell me about them.

Oscar Levant

#50. The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

Oscar Levant

#51. Happiness isn't something you experience, it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

#52. I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.

Oscar Levant

#53. Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

#54. Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.

Oscar Levant

#55. Freedom of speech trumps political correctness. I would say our magazine would publish an anti-Semitic or Holocaust denying cartoon if it meant Jews around the world were rioting because of it and burning embassies because of a cartoon. We would want to show our readers what all the fuss was about.

Ezra Levant

#56. A conductor should reconcile himself to the realization that regardless of his approach or temperament the eventual result is the same-the orchestra will hate him.

Oscar Levant

#57. Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.

Oscar Levant

#58. I never watch the Dinah Shore show- I'm a diabetic.

Oscar Levant

#59. There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

Oscar Levant

#60. Do not confuse McGuinty's belief system with a true faith. It is a superstition, the tenets of which are capable of being scientifically disproven.

Ezra Levant