Top 100 Levy Quotes
#1. Female Chauvinist Pigs is smart, alarming, and extremely funny. With nuance and humor, Levy has written both a convincing expos of sex and desire in contemporary America and an important cultural history. I'm giving a copy to my mother. And my sons.
Cathleen Schine
#2. I have a stunt double; his name is Glen Levy, and he has the hardest punch in the world. Seriously, it's actually been recorded by 'National Geographic.' He calls it the Hammer Fist.
Craig Horner
#3. History is the dark magician inside us, tearing at our liver. (Deborah Levy, Hot Milk, p. 185)
Deborah Levy
#4. He couldn't help but wonder if Moses Levy had experienced this same heat, if true images burned their maker. He wondered, too, if the hermit at that riverside was right, if there wasn't some element of capturing a soul in each photograph, if he wasn't responsible for those whose images he caught.
Alice Hoffman
#5. A friend of mine from college is married to Neil Levy, who started on 'Saturday Night Live' in the early days and is a really great guy and funny writer.
Richard LaGravenese
#6. The politician and the government expert receive their revenues, not from service voluntarily purchased on the market, but from a compulsory levy on the populace. These officials, therefore, wholly lack the pecuniary incentive to care about serving the public properly and competently.
Murray Rothbard
#7. Every day, IRS agents levy liens on homes, bank accounts, and businesses; they confiscate cars, furniture, boats, and other personal property without the constitutional protections of due notice, hearing, and due process. If a person forcibly resists, government agents kill him for resisting arrest.
Jacob G. Hornberger
#8. I like the power given the Legislature to levy taxes, and for that reason solely approve of the greater house being chosen by the people directly.
Thomas Jefferson
#9. After life's fitful fever he sleeps well. Treason has done his worst. Nor steel nor poison, malice domestic, foreign levy, nothing can touch him further.
William Shakespeare
#10. I had seen Shawn Levy's movie just before, Just Married. And I think when I met him too, he's very smart and together and he's got it together.
Piper Perabo
#11. What Americans were really objecting to had nothing to do with constitutional principles. their objection was not to Parliament's constitutional right to levy certain kinds of taxes as opposed to others, but to its effort to collect any.
Bernard Bailyn
#12. Jay Levy saw ten women," the doctor later recalled, "And he thought they were all hysterical. Then he saw a man, whose complaints he took seriously.
Hillary Johnson
#13. 8. The skillful soldier does not raise a second levy, neither are his supply-wagons loaded more than twice. [Once war is declared, he will
Sun Tzu
#14. We class schools, you see, into four grades: Leading School, First-rate School, Good School, and School. Frankly," said Mr Levy, "School is pretty bad ...
Evelyn Waugh
#15. A regular method was the levy for a crusade, which allowed ecclesiastical income within each country to be taxed by its king, who soon came to regard it as a right.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#16. Bye, Bye Miss American Pie, drove my chevy to the levy but the levy was dry. Good old boys drinking whiskey and rye, singing, this'll be the day that I die.
Don McLean
#17. I love funny people. I met and became friends with some of the funniest people ever. Gilda Radner, bless her soul; Martin Short; Dave Thomas; Eugene Levy.
Paul Shaffer
#18. Our co-founder and company president, Jim Levy, came from a record industry background and understood the marketing and promotion of artists as well as products. So the video game business went from absolutely zero designer credit to something approaching rock star promotion.
David Crane
#19. Simply handing over your iPod to a friend, your blind date, or the total stranger sitting next to you on the plane opens you up like a book. (Steven Levy)
Walter Isaacson
#20. But I don't know a word of German, I've had no experience, I've got no testimonials, and I can't play cricket.'
'It doesn't do to be too modest,' said Mr Levy. 'It's wonderful what one can teach when one tries.
Evelyn Waugh
#21. In a single week, there might be committees, caucuses, colloquium, congresses, and conventions variously coming together to establish codes, set courses of action, levy complaints, and generally clamor about the world's oldest problems in its newest nomenclature.
Amor Towles
#22. The cardinal rule of taxation is that whatever you put a levy on, you'll inevitably get less of. Taxing corporate activity means less investing, less hiring, fewer jobs and a smaller economy, which hurts the rich, the poor and the middle class alike.
Adam Davidson
#23. Congress should know how to levy taxes, and if it doesn't know how to collect them, then a man is a fool to pay the taxes.
J. P. Morgan
#24. You are fortunate to live here. If I were your President, I would levy a tax on you for living in San Francisco!
Mikhail Gorbachev
#25. There is no regular system of taxation, but when the Emperor or the Bashaw want money, they levy on some rich man, and he has to furnish the cash or go to prison. Therefore, few men in Morocco dare to be rich.
Mark Twain
#26. Inheritance Tax; - it is, broadly speaking; a voluntary levy paid by those who distrust their heirs more than they dislike the Inland Revenue
Roy Jenkins
#27. It was such a pleasure to work with Eugene Levy. What a treat. That's a guy I grew up watching as a kid. Guys like that, they were hilarious and didn't have to be super vile or X-rated.
Harland Williams
#28. Our port facilities should have the freedom to levy a market-based container fee which will provide new revenue and make our system more equitable to the American taxpayer and American manufacturers.
Dana Rohrabacher
#29. This guy was a real Pscyho' Mr. Levy said.
'To you character is a psychosis, integrity is a complex. I've heard it all before.
John Kennedy Toole
#30. Look at the Chandra Levy case. It's become a Star Chamber. The major networks, the cable networks, they're being prosecutors. They're judges and jurors and executioners. Well, c'mon, that's ridiculous. But they're doing it.
Ray Bradbury
#31. The Commissioner was correct to ban Mr. Sterling from all official NBA business, to levy the stiffest allowable fine, and we will support his recommendation to press for Mr. Sterling to relinquish his ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers franchise.
Jerry Reinsdorf
#32. Had that poor Reilly kook really been proud of Levy Pants? He had always said that he was. That was one good sign of his insanity.
John Kennedy Toole
#33. People are arguing whether Mel Gibson's "Passion of the Christ" is anti-semitic. Well, whether it is or it isn't, it doesn't matter, because I've been in touch with his accounting firm, Rosencrantz, Levy and Stern, and they're screwing him out of his profits.
Joan Rivers
#34. Every time Washington regulators pass down another heavy-handed rule or levy another hefty fine, Colorado loses potential jobs, revenue, and economic security.
Bob Beauprez
#35. The United States being a limited form of government, one of the restrictions to which it is subject is in regard to its power to levy taxes. The States may levy them for a great many purposes for which Congress cannot, because to the States belong all of the powers not delegated to Congress.
Samuel Freeman Miller
#36. Sexual awareness is american-reunion-jason-biggs-eugene-levy-seann-william-scottpart of growing up. When you're growing up, you can't get away from sex.
Jennifer Coolidge
#37. before I was married I didn't care what bills I put my name to, and so long as Moses would wait or Levy would renew for three months, I kept on never minding. But since I'm married, except renewing, of course, I give you my honour I've not touched a bit of stamped paper.
William Makepeace Thackeray
#38. If any one shall claim a power to lay and levy taxes on the people by his own authority and without such consent of the people, he thereby invades the fundamental law of property, and subverts the end of government.
John Locke
#39. What's insane is a ten percent levy on baked goods. You do realize the Revolutionary war began on less than two percent. How is the public not flocking to the streets in outrage? We must do something.
Ichabod
#40. My mom is the recycling Nazi, and I always bring a bag to the grocery store.
Jane Levy
#41. All of my conjuring had led only to ruin and death. Now I was a wounded witch, waiting in the forest, undone.
Ariel Levy
#42. We were promised a society of philosophers. But the Blogosphere is looking more and more like a nation of ankle-biters.
Steven Levy
#43. [Google is] an omnivorous collector of information, a hyperencyclopedic vault of human knowledge, an unerring auctioneer, an eerily skilful student of languages, behaviour, and desires.
Steven Levy
#44. There is an expression-walking with beauty. And I believe that this endless search for beauty in surroundings, in people and one's personal life, is the headstone of travel.
Juliette De Bairacli Levy
#45. The age factor means nothing to me. I'm old enough to know my limitations and I'm young enough to exceed them.
Marv Levy
#46. In the new quiet I heard the sea as if my ears were laid against the ocean floor. I could hear everything. The rumbling earthquake of a ship and spider crabs moving between weeds.
Deborah Levy
#47. I have lots of girlfriends - all over the country! You think I'm kidding? I'm dead serious. Girlfriends everywhere.
William Levy
#49. If there's age discrimination - and there may be - I've always felt that the person who discriminates is hurt more than the person being discriminated against, if the second person shucks it off and moves forward.
Marv Levy
#50. If you believe you are doing a good job in which you enjoy and like, then don't resign regardless of the pressures.
Marv Levy
#51. A good education prepares you well for anything.
Marv Levy
#52. In all my movies, there's always a kind of heartfelt element, to be able to do a drama and to be able to spend more time in the emotional stuff with no pressure to get back to the funny that's very liberating for me.
Shawn Levy
#53. The very notion of Great Britain's "greatness" is bound up with Empire,' the cultural theorist, Stuart Hall, once wrote: 'Euro-scepticism and littel Englander nationalism could hardly survive if people understood whose sugar flowed through English blood , and rotted English teeth.
Andrea Levy
#54. When I first started reading poetry, all the poets I read - Edgar Allan Poe, Oliver Wendell Holmes, John Greenleaf Whittier - were rhyme poets. That's what captured me.
Marv Levy
#55. These are not stories about girls getting what they want sexually, they are stories about girls gaining acclaim socially, for which their sexuality is a tool.
Ariel Levy
#56. I've always been entranced by writing.
Marv Levy
#57. When you're in front of a camera, it's not the words that count but the way they sound. It hardly matters what you say as long as you say it with a smile.
Marc Levy
#58. Camera but no selfies, which represent selfishness and egotism. Social media? Again: not really me.
Maurice Levy
#59. to absorb, explore, and expand the intricacies of those bewitching systems;
Steven Levy
#60. Collective Intelligence (CI) is the capacity of human collectives to engage in intellectual cooperation in order to create, innovate, and invent.
Pierre Levy
#61. I love comedy. Playing the underdog, and getting the laughs is my form of entertainment. I could think of nothing different that I would want to be doing at this time in my life.
Eugene Levy
#62. Simply because my people are hungry, that is no justification to give them poison, to give them genetically modified food that is intrinsically dangerous to their health.
Levy Mwanawasa
#63. I exercise, walk a lot, and break into the occasional trot. I also lift weights three days a week, and I like to read about what makes a good diet. Overall, I do follow a healthy lifestyle.
Marv Levy
#64. I am really attracted to films. It's nice to do something new, all the time. That's why I like being an actor.
Jane Levy
#65. When I was twelve, I went hunting with my father and we shot a bird. He was laying there and something struck me. Why do we call this fun to kill this creature who was as happy as I was when I woke up this morning.
Marv Levy
#66. Evil devastates any possibility of an intellectual response; the tools of the rational intellect are as helpless incoping with the aftereffects of evil as it was in preventing it.
Paul Levy
#67. When it's too hard for them, it's just right for us.
Marv Levy
#68. What it takes to win is simple, it's not easy.
Marv Levy
#69. Is it the freedom of characters in fiction that we find so inspiring, or the way that freedom transforms them?
Marc Levy
#70. To use the language of a war correspondent, which was, she knew, what Isabel Jacobs happened to be, she would have to say thay Kitty Finch was smiling at her with hostile intent.
Deborah Levy
#71. A tawdry, cartoonlike version of female sexuality has become so ubiquitous, it no longer seems particular. What we once regarded as a *kind* of sexual expression we now regard *as* sexuality.
Ariel Levy
#73. I think that the most beautiful thing lately hasn't been in hardware or software per se but collaboration - the idea behind Napster, which uses the distributed power of the Internet as its engine.
Steven Levy
#76. The true work of art continues to unfold and create within the personality of the spectator. It is a continuous coming into being.
Mervyn Levy
#77. The greatest thing about doing this movie was that Chris and I both were involved in folk music in the '60s. I had a group, but I don't think it was at the same level as Chris, because he's an amazing musician.
Eugene Levy
#78. What you do should speak so loudly that no one will hear what you say.
Marv Levy
#79. The whole point is that everybody gets to marry the person they love.
Ariel Levy
#80. There is no talking rationally, using logic or facts, with someone under the spell of the psychic epidemic, as their ability to reason and to use discernment has been disabled and distorted in service to the psychic pathogen which they carry.
Paul Levy
#81. The conservatives want to revolutionize the world all at once. And that's a dangerous proposal.
Bernard-Henri Levy
#82. Why hire these geniuses if they're forced to stick with the script? You want to empower your actors as collaborators.
Shawn Levy
#83. Wetiko is elusive and mercurial, for whatever we say wetiko is, it isn't, in that it is always more, less, and other than what we are able to say it is in language.
Paul Levy
#84. Violence is a part of the world and life, and you shouldn't have to take it out of stories.
Jane Levy
#85. I mean what I say when i say it. After that, it's hard to say
Marc Levy
#86. Death, as a general statement, is so easy of utterance, of belief; it is only when we come face to face with it that we find the great mystery so cruelly hard to realise; for death, like love, is ever old and ever new.
Amy Levy
#87. I have stayed active. I do keep moving. But I should start swimming more. Great exercise.
Marv Levy
#88. I know plenty people, and I've done it myself, where you lock yourself inside for four days and you a watch a whole series. It's like watching a never-ending movie. It's great not to have to wait for the next season or the next week.
Jane Levy
#89. I have always wanted to go to Trieste because it sounds like tristesse, which is a light-hearted word, even though in French it means sadness. In Spanish it is tristeza, which is heavier than French sadness, more of a groan than a whisper.
Deborah Levy
#90. As the life of the horse is in his legs, so the life of the traveler is in his feet, and good care should be taken of them.
Juliette De Bairacli Levy
#91. To connect with the characters, you need to connect with the world. If the world feels vaguely familiar, I believe the characters will feel relatable.
Shawn Levy
#92. Sometimes you believe that you are targeting a 25-35-year-old young woman and you see that there is a crowd of 78-year-old people who are coming to buy some underwear, so it's not exactly the same kind of underwear that you have to sell.
Maurice Levy
#93. You think I started out like this?
Well, I didn't.
I started out like anyone else - young and hopeful. I started out arrogant and in love, assuming the whole dizzy world was where it should be: at my feet. I started out - well, I started out a little like you.
Gail Levy
#94. I've never seen 'Evil Dead 2.' Sorry about that. I'm sorry to the world.
Jane Levy
#95. The Supreme Court could have said, You're just these fringe women in combat boots. But they didn't.
Ariel Levy
#96. It didn't help when Black Power activist Stokely Carmichael made his notorious comment to the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee: "The position of women in SNCC is prone.
Ariel Levy
#97. Fairy tales are really violent, the original ones.
Jane Levy
#98. I'm sure there were concussions galore back when we played, but the doctors would just say, 'Shake it off,' or something like that ... or 'Come on, you got to be tough ... get back in there.' I see so many guys who played pro football in their 50s now who are so debilitated from having played it.
Marv Levy
#99. When you are a startup you need to hire very fast, and sometimes you have to restructure very fast.
Maurice Levy
#100. The only person you can reliably kill with a high-power 9mm is yourself,
Adrian Levy
