Top 69 Levant's Quotes

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

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #10524
#2. What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #39588
#3. I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #41577
#4. 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

Levant's Quotes #64087
#5. Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #70046
#6. An epigram is only a wisecrack that's played at Carnegie Hall.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #72107
#7. I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #83567
#8. It'd be nice to please everyone but I thought it would be more interesting to have a point of view.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #116758
#9. I never read bad reviews about myself, because my friends invariably tell me about them.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #189046
#10. The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #213966
#11. Happiness isn't something you experience, it's something you remember.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #217950
#12. I could never have a mistress, because I couldn't bear to tell the story of my life all over again.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #219851
#13. Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #257147
#14. Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #275728
#15. When I can't sleep, I read a book by Steve Allen.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #305144
#16. 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

Levant's Quotes #331276
#17. Marriage is a triumph of habit over hate.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #335537
#18. The only non-believer I encountered was Oscar Levant who wouldn't visit Disneyland because he said he had his own hallucinations.

Jack Paar

Levant's Quotes #338459
#19. There's nothing wrong with Oscar Levant - nothing a miracle won't cure.

Alexander Woollcott

Levant's Quotes #390885
#20. I never watch the Dinah Shore show- I'm a diabetic.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #444776
#21. There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #457040
#22. 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

Levant's Quotes #484693
#23. I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #546512
#24. Self-pity - it's the only pity that counts.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #553185
#25. I was once thrown out of a mental hospital for depressing the other patients.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #602989
#26. I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #647851
#27. George, if you had to do it all over, would you fall in love with yourself again?

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #685619
#28. Ballet is the fairies baseball.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #745597
#29. 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

Levant's Quotes #760988
#30. I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #772384
#31. Now that Marilyn Monroe is kosher, Arthur Miller can eat her.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #811630
#32. Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. - On Dwight D. Eisenhower

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #836002
#33. 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

Levant's Quotes #838730
#34. It's not what you are, it's what you don't become that hurts.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #841091
#35. 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

Levant's Quotes #856367
#36. There, in the Levantine crossroads between Europe, Africa, and Asia, the sovereign nation of Israel would exemplify what right looks like.

James Mikolajczyk

Levant's Quotes #861823
#37. There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix.

Alexander Woollcott

Levant's Quotes #891964
#38. 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

Levant's Quotes #926016
#39. I am no more humble than my talents require.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #933419
#40. 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

Levant's Quotes #962105
#41. 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

Levant's Quotes #1018245
#42. Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #1027553
#43. There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #1037901
#44. First I brush my teeth and then I sharpen my tongue.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #1052643
#45. Debbie Reynolds is as wistful as an iron foundry.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #1112246
#46. I don't like to play the piano. It makes me too attractive.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #1165155
#47. 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

Levant's Quotes #1180820
#48. I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #1224507
#49. 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

Levant's Quotes #1250283
#50. I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #1298212
#51. [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

Levant's Quotes #1338207
#52. I'm a self-made man. Who else would help?

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #1391804
#53. 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

Levant's Quotes #1443616
#54. Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #1473253
#55. 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

Levant's Quotes #1491075
#56. Talent's like a baby. Wrap it up in wool and it goes to sleep.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #1523100
#57. In some situations I was difficult, in odd moments impossible, in rare moments loathsome, but at my best unapproachably great.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #1556971
#58. Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #1566913
#59. Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #1602614
#60. So little time and so little to do.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #1624641
#61. I played an unsympathetic part
myself.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #1629693
#62. A pun is the lowest form of humor - when you don't think of it first.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #1667123
#63. I'm a concert pianist, that's a pretentious way of saying I'm unemployed at the moment.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #1724902
#64. [ ... ] 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

Levant's Quotes #1759468
#65. A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #1801733
#66. Pearl is a disease of oysters. Levant is a disease of Hollywood.

Kenneth Tynan

Levant's Quotes #1817812
#67. 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

Levant's Quotes #1834463
#68. 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

Levant's Quotes #1857053
#69. When I was young I looked like Al Capone, but I lacked his compassion.

Oscar Levant

Levant's Quotes #1871216

Famous Authors

Popular Topics

Scroll to Top