Levine Quotes

#1. I loved fairy tales as a kid. I've always been drawn to fantasy. They're always exciting. There's never a dull moment. I just love the embellishments and the magical stuff. It's such fun to work with and to re-imagine your own way.

Gail Carson Levine

#2. My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.

Philip Levine

#3. At any Maroon 5 concert, you'll see a room backstage marked 'yoga.'

Adam Levine

#4. A painful truth I'd learn later: you may be ready to grow, but you can't fertilize friends and grow them with you.

Sara Levine

#5. I don't date my girlfriend because she's a model. I date her because I love her.

Adam Levine

#6. Kanye West talks about being Axl Rose, being Kurt Cobain, being Jim Morrison. Adam Levine is selling acne ointment to teenagers.

Ian Astbury

#7. If world peace was as important to people as getting tweeted back by their favorite celebrity, we'd live in a blissful Utopia.

Adam Levine

#8. No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

Philip Levine

#9. Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.

Gail Carson Levine

#10. How soon will we accept this opportunity to be fully alive before we die? (88)

Stephen Levine

#11. If you bring forth that which is within you, Then that which is within you Will be your salvation. If you do not bring forth that which is within you, Then that which is within you Will destroy you. - THE GNOSTIC GOSPELS

Peter A. Levine

#12. Love is not what we become but who we already are

Stephen Levine

#13. But we can't control the environment; all we can control is the way we react to it.

Alison Levine

#14. He's like the kid they use down in Louisiana as alligator bait. They tie him to the end of a rope and he walks out into the swamp. All the kid can do is hope they jerk the rope back in time.

Michael Levine

#15. What's interesting is that both men and women are struggling with this issue in remarkably similar percentages, but the big difference is that women tend to talk about this when men keep it silent.

James Levine

#16. My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.

Philip Levine

#17. He bowed. 'The young lady must not dance alone.

Gail Carson Levine

#18. Step follows step,
Hope follows Courage,
Set your face towards danger,
Set your heart on victory.

Gail Carson Levine

#19. Food for thought requires a mind with teeth.

Gail Carson Levine

#20. I did stand-up for a good number of years while I was still living in New York, and those people primarily knew me as 'the kid stand-up.'

Samm Levine

#21. In books and in life, you need to read several pages before someone's true character is revealed.

Gail Carson Levine

#22. Oxygen plays a pivotal role in the proper functioning of the immune system. We can look at oxygen deficiency as the single greatest cause of all diseases.

Stephen Levine

#23. Ninety-nine percent of everything you do in life is attitude. If you have a relationship with God ... you're going to learn to ask the one question in life that covers everything: How can I help you?

Walter Levine

#24. Before I go on stage I pretend that everyone loves me.

Adam Levine

#25. When you're surrounded by people who share the same set of assumptions as you, you start to think that's reality.

Emily Levine

#26. So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't mean they're good.

Adam Levine

#27. It doesn't matter how long you forget, only how soon you remember!

Stephen Levine

#28. So, the total number of hours spent on the stuff you have to do to take care of a family, working and caring for stuff at home, the total number of hours is actually about the same for mothers and fathers.

James Levine

#29. Caring is going to the ends of the world for a stranger.

Bernard Levine

#30. There is nothing noble about suffering except the love and forgiveness with which we meet it. Many believe that if they are suffering they are closer to God, but I have met very few who could keep their heart open to their suffering enough for that to be true. (124)

Stephen Levine

#31. I rode all day.
I cried all night.
The moon didn't glow.
The sun didn't rise.
A comet blazed
Between my eyes.
West and South,
Wind and rain.
Every way is
Just the same.
Pray give me a box
To hide inside.
Pray give me a spade
To dig my own grave.

Gail Carson Levine

#32. You are sunshine and moonlight, laughter and joy, a life lived entirely without fear. You heard the call of a dream and made it a reality. You are everything I believed I was fighting for all those years.

Elaine Levine

#33. I grabbed her by the back of her neck and pulled her mouth to mine. "I fuckin' need your cunt, baby," I growled before roughly kissing her.

Nina Levine

#34. When there's a dead body in the room, you never, ever answer cops' questions without your lawyer present. Which is to say, your lawyer answers the questions by saying, We have nothing to say at this time.

Paul Levine

#35. As you know, Joyce was a writer who asked his reader to give him a lifetime," he said. "I am that reader, and I can tell you it was a wasted life.

Philip Levine

#36. Everybody blames the culture without taking responsibility.

James Levine

#37. I like a pretty relaxed, fun set. Everyone knows they can bring whoever they want and hang out.

Jonathan Levine

#38. I loved this man with all my heart; he had shown me that even though life can be a bitch, love can get you through any storm.

Nina Levine

#39. Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.

Philip Levine

#40. In Chinese, the character for danger is the same one for opportunity." -- Kim Ling Levine in Madhattan Mystery

John J. Bonk

#41. If life were a sea adventure, I knew: I wouldn't be sailor, pirate, or cabin boy but more likely a barnacle clinging to the side of the boat.

Sara Levine

#42. We have a historic system in place since the early part of the last century and this is going to be one of the biggest battles in California if we decide to take it on.

Marc Levine

#43. Spiritual revolutionaries must be committed not to what is easiest, but to what is most beneficial to themselves and the world.

Noah Levine

#44. NBC's a little jealous of CNN correspondent Wolf Blitzer. They want to get a reporter with a macho-sounding name too, so they're changing Irving R. Levine's name to Scud Shrapnel.

Johnny Carson

#45. Color Vision Deficiency isn't the end of the world. It's just a different view of it.

Karen Rae Levine

#46. Most artists like to think of themselves as rugged individualists, as independent characters.

Jack Levine

#47. Rather than reacting with our usual attachment or aversion, taking everything personally and feeling the need to do something about it, we relax into the experience, seeing it clearly and letting it be as it is.

Noah Levine

#48. There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

Gail Carson Levine

#49. Waking up is not a selfish pursuit of happiness, it is a revolutionary stance, from the inside out, for the benefit of all beings in existence.

Noah Levine

#50. Let there be peace on earth and let it begin with me. There is nothing to do but be.

Stephen Levine

#51. I got hit in the fucking head with the medicine ball.

Adele Levine

#52. If our definition of happiness is "experiencing that which is pleasurable," we are going to be disappointed a lot of the time.

Noah Levine

#53. You're Only the fairest when your fairest to yourself

Gail Carson Levine

#54. I really hope everyone who saw 'Twilight' sees 'Warm Bodies,' but at the same time ... I don't resent the comparison on a level of quality because I don't judge other movies like that. Now that I make movies, I see how hard it is to do everything. I pretty much love all movies.

Jonathan Levine

#55. Approach illness as an experiment in staying present, in opening your heart in hell. Discuss how we fear our hidden pain even more than death, and how noting and mindfulness brings that pain to the surface where it can be healed.

Stephen Levine

#56. Society's rules don't always work. They're limited by human frailty.

Paul Levine

#57. insurmountable problems hit your marriage, being happy becomes an arduous

S. Levine

#58. Yogi Berra reportedly said, It's not the heat, it's the humility.

Paul Levine

#59. I have to say that Adam Levine is truly a daring young man to go on Twitter to bash Fox News. He's so rebellious, so subversive. I mean, for a musician, seriously, could you find a more predictable stance than that? He's as edgy as a hacky sack, which also describes his music.

Greg Gutfeld

#60. He is flawless, without a blemish. Majesic ... muscular.

Gail Carson Levine

#61. Music was a way of rebelling against the whole rah-rah high school thing.

Adam Levine

#62. So you're six years old, you're reading 'Snow White and the Seven Dwarves,' and it becomes rapidly obvious that there are only two kinds of men in the world: dwarves and Prince Charmings. And the odds are seven to one against your finding the prince.

Emily Levine

#63. How weightless/ words are when nothing will do.

Philip Levine

#64. A good lawyer is part con man, part priest
promising riches, threatening hell. My ethical rules are simple. I won't lie to the court or let a client do it. But I've never been in this position. How far would I go for a woman who mattered? Is there anything I wouldn't do to win?

Paul Levine

#65. remember that what will die in a year's time is not our essential being but our ability to interact physically with those we love and cherish. You

Stephen Levine

#66. I was the music dude that was naked all the time with the girls, and that's fine, no problem with that,

Adam Levine

#67. Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme ... they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.

Philip Levine

#68. Perhaps you couldn't help being angry... but you could certainly stop yourself from repaying one offense with another.

Gail Carson Levine

#69. BOLDNESS
RESOLUTION
INDEPENDENCE
HORN-BLOWING

Sara Levine

#70. My thoughts don't really bump along this way, but they do bump somehow, and it's more honest
more pedagogically useful, more truthful
to arrange them in a loose, disconnected, provisional way than to deliver only the conclusions.

Sara Levine

#71. The best way we can help our children welcome challenges is to encourage them to work just outside their comfort zone, stand by to lend a hand when needed, and model enthusiasm for challenging tasks.

Madeline Levine

#72. My grandmother always acted in other people's interests, whether they wanted her to or not. If they'd had an Olympics in martyrdom my grandmother would have lost on purpose.

Emily Levine

#73. I have never lived a life so much larger than death. (93)

Stephen Levine

#74. It seemed ironic that Lowell Levine and I, who were both Jewish, were going over to identify the remains of a man who was so anti-Semitic.

Michael Baden

#75. Everyone needs a home, and you're mine. It's not this house. It's not a building. It's wherever you are. That's my home.

Nina Levine

#76. Because all the words in the world won't do much good if they're just rattling around in your head.

Kristin Levine

#77. If you want the other person more than anything else in the world, you're in major trouble and the relationship is a wobbly pivot. It's different if the thing you want most in the world is truth, and your partner is the person you want most in the world.

Stephen Levine

#78. Physical therapy has a high burnout rate. The long hours of intense one-on-one time is emotionally fatiguing. And while we universally love our patients, there's always one rotten apple in the bunch who just breaks you down.

Adele Levine

#79. With irrigation channels and rivers running dry and municipal water storage dams reaching record lows, California's politicians are getting desperate for solutions to a drought that seemingly has no end.

Marc Levine

#80. I grew up in New York City. In elementary school, I was a charter member of the Scribble Scrabble Club, and in high school, my poems were published in an anthology of student poetry.

Gail Carson Levine

#81. We do not seem to be finding tomorrow's Toscas.

James Levine

#82. I think kids abandon stories all the time. They start stories and get frustrated or get a different, better idea. I think that it is more worthwhile to stick with a story and revise it and try to finish it than abandon ship. Revisions, for any writer, are the name of the game.

Gail Carson Levine

#83. I definitely think for up and coming filmmakers, people graduating from film school, people that want to do their own movies, horror movies are a great way to go.

Jonathan Levine

#84. HP-UX is a pretty good implementation of BSD, although it's not as featureful as SunOS.

John R. Levine

#85. When I write, I make discoveries about my feelings.

Gail Carson Levine

#86. I'm an outsider.

Jack Levine

#87. In his dark suit, white shirt, and rep tie, he looked - and sounded - utterly professional. There was little chance he would make a mistake on direct or get tripped up on cross by a pettifogger, such as my own wily self.

Paul Levine

#88. Lately she'd been charting Bobby's moods like a meteorologist watching tropical storms. Something was bothering him, and he wasn't talking.

Paul Levine

#89. Pink, gold, blue.
I choose you!

Gail Carson Levine

#90. A shark without teeth is just a mermaid.

Paul Levine

#91. Ahh the 90's I hated ye when I was in it, but I love it now that it's gone ...

Allison B. Levine

#92. We are motivated more by aversion to the unpleasant than by a will toward truth, freedom, or healing. We are constantly attempting to escape our life, to avoid rather than enter our pain we, and we wonder why it is so difficult to be fully alive. (43)

Stephen Levine

#93. I'm doing pretty well. If you don't get married, you can't get divorced. Why couldn't we learn from the devastatingly low percentage of successful marriages that our last generation went through?

Adam Levine

#94. I've been shy twice. Once when I saw Matthew Bomer and once when I saw Adam Levine. I couldn't say anything, literally.

Yara Shahidi

#95. Mustn't all significant action be preceded by an incubation period?...the waiting period is not just a delay to be endured in order to reach the right moment. It is... the very creator of that moment.

Robert V. Levine

#96. Everyone else reached the Shores of Sleep, but I remained oceans away.

Gail Carson Levine

#97. I'm not a tall man. I'm just a hair under 5'5.

Samm Levine

#98. When you commit to being a musician, I don't think you're really sure or care about when you're going to pay the bills. I don't think you care about that as much as you care about playing music.

Adam Levine

#99. I thought I'd write one book and the world would change overnight.

James Levine

#100. We all hold the keys to our own jail cells.

Paul Levine