Quotes About Lev

#1. I killed the Google Alert I used to have on myself two years ago. I don't need any more information about myself. I get more than enough of that just by being me.

Lev Grossman

#2. Hate isn't like love, it doesn't end. It goes on forever. You can never get to the bottom of it. And it's so pure, so unconditional!

Lev Grossman

#3. ( ... )on earth everything has a beginning and nothing has an end.

Lev Shestov

#4. Loyalty was their way of life.

Sophia Bar-Lev

#5. Magic, Quentin discovered, wasn't romantic at all. It was grim and repetitive and deceptive. And he worked his ass off and became very good at it.

Lev Grossman

#6. Loosening his tie with one hand, Quentin stepped out into the cold clear winter air and flew.

Lev Grossman

#7. Do you promise to hate my parents as much as I do?"
"Oh, absolutely," Quentin said. "Maybe even more.

Lev Grossman

#8. We hunt the White Stag, like Quentin did. We catch it or shoot it or whatever you do with it. We get three wishes. We wish Fillory would last forever and not die. Done. Mischief managed." Eliot

Lev Grossman

#9. They certified that I was sane; but I know that I am mad. This confession gives us the key to what is most important and significant in Tolstoy's hidden life.

Lev Shestov

#10. Suffering "buys" something, and this something possesses a certain value for all of us, for common consciousness; by suffering we buy the right to judge.

Lev Shestov

#11. Maybe this was one of those times when being a hero didn't involve looking particularly brave. It was just doing what you should.

Lev Grossman

#12. We mathematicans are all a bit crazy.

Lev Landau

#13. His hair - cut your fucking hair already, you're not Alan Rickman - was lank.

Lev Grossman

#14. I used to write in a local coffee shop, but there was another guy, another writer, who kept sitting in my favorite seat. I would show up, and he would be there, and I would get exiled to a couch or something, and it would throw me off my game.

Lev Grossman

#15. By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.

Lev Grossman

#16. Quentin went to work on a bitter single malt Scotch that tasted like it had been decanted through the stump of an oak tree that had been killed by lightning.

Lev Grossman

#17. We found some of them. It was always either a fight

Lev Grossman

#18. In those years, it was easier to win the Soviet Championship than a game against 'Iron Tigran'.

Lev Polugaevsky

#19. You didn't get the quest you wanted, you got the one you could do.

Lev Grossman

#20. It was so much easier to be angry. Being angry made him feel strong, even though
and this contradiction did nothing to diminish his anger
he was angry only because his position was so weak.

Lev Grossman

#21. She had never expected anything special to just happen to her. Her plan for life was to get out there and make special things happen, which was a much more sensible plan from a probability point of view.

Lev Grossman

#22. Furthermore, as long as the world shall last, there will always be people who, either for the sake of peace or from an unquiet conscience, will build up sublime lies for their neighbours. And these people have always been and will always be the masters of human thought.

Lev Shestov

#23. What's the fastest migratory bird on Earth?" "An airplane.

Lev Grossman

#24. Chaim Potok wrote two novels that I think are indispensable to understanding the Hasidic and Orthodox American Jewish communities following the Holocaust: The Chosen and My Name Is Asher Lev.

Nancy Pearl

#25. Analysis is a glittering opportunity for training: it is just here that capacity for work, perseverence and stamina are cultivated, and these qualities are, in truth, as necessary to a chess player as a marathon runner.

Lev Polugaevsky

#26. Guy lives in a fantasy world without junk food or cars or trans fats or TV and he's still fat. You had to admire his dedication to the cause.

Lev Grossman

#27. Lev had agreed to go with him because he knew the two tilled a need in each other. CyFi was like a preacher with no flock. He couldn't exist without an audience, and Lev needed someone who could fill his head with ideas, to replace the lifetime of ideas that had been taken from him.

Neal Shusterman

#28. Vile Father's brown nipples, on the ends of his pendulous man-cans, were like dried figs.

Lev Grossman

#29. And I'm not as young as I once was. At my age, I don't have time to be bored.

Lev Grossman

#30. My mom had gotten a Super 8 camera to make home movies with, and my brother and me got our hands on it and ran with it.

Lev Yilmaz

#31. Everybody wanted to be the hero of their own story. Nobody wanted to be comic relief.

Lev Grossman

#32. I have a hard time believing that the history of the universe is being written by a talking rabbit," Eliot said. "Though that would explain a lot.

Lev Grossman

#33. Heretics were most often bitterly persecuted for the their least deviation from accepted belief. It was precisely their obstinacy about trifles that irritated the righteous to madness.

Lev Shestov

#34. shake him up. Get him out of his comfort zone so he could stop sneering at everybody else who was out of theirs. Get him thinking about something besides his own neuroses for a change.

Lev Grossman

#35. What is the point of magic if we can't fix real problems?

Lev Grossman

#36. She tortured everybody around her, but only because she was more tortured than anyone.

Lev Grossman

#37. Life would again have to make superhuman efforts, "as in a battle," to break open for himself a path through the truths created by the sciences which "dream of being but cannot see it in waking reality.

Lev Shestov

#38. I got my first whiff of what big-time adult literature was all about when I was in 8th grade. I got it from Mark Linn-Baker. You know - the guy from 'Perfect Strangers.'

Lev Grossman

#39. The problem was that Julia was smart, and Julia was interested in the truth. She didn't like inconsistencies, and she didn't let go until they were resolved, ever.

Lev Grossman

#40. More striking still, a broken man is generally deprived of everything except the ability to acknowledge and feel his position.

Lev Shestov

#41. He'd been free his whole life, if only he'd known it.

Lev Grossman

#42. It didn't matter where you were, if you were in a room full of books you were at least halfway home.

Lev Grossman

#43. Some people need their families to become who they're supposed to be. And there's nothing wrong with that. But there are other ways to do it.

Lev Grossman

#44. There's no such thing as a young refugee; every migrant has a past they've fled from, and how can you be young when you already have one life behind you?

Lev Golinkin

#45. My name is Asher Lev ... I am a traitor, an apostate, a self-hater, an inflicter of shame upon my family, my friends, my people; also, I am a mocker of ideas sacred to Christians, a blasphemous manipulator of modes and forms revered by Gentiles for two thousand years.

Chaim Potok

#46. During photography's first decades, exposure times were quite long ... So, similar to the drawings produced with the help of a camera obscura, which depicted reality as static and immobile, early photographs represented the world as stable, eternal, unshakable.

Lev Manovich

#47. First and foremost it is essential to understand the essence, the overall idea of any fashionable variation, and only then include it in one's repertoire. Otherwise the tactical trees will conceal from the player the strategic picture of the wood, in which his orientation will most likely be lost.

Lev Polugaevsky

#48. By giving our students practice in talking with others, we give them frames for thinking on their own.

Lev S. Vygotsky

#49. The line between outside and inside is fuzzier in fantasy. Maybe that's something people are looking for.

Lev Grossman

#50. How often have I met and disliked writers whose books I love; and conversely, hated the books and then wound up liking the writer? Too often.

Lev Grossman

#51. Growing up in the '70s and '80s, science fiction and especially fantasy had such a stigma attached to them. I felt so punished and exiled for being devoted to these things.

Lev Grossman

#52. The multiverse was his TGI Friday's.

Lev Grossman

#53. infinite corridor of panic that led nowhere.

Lev Grossman

#54. You should never apologize for existing, Lev. Not even to all those people out there who wish you didn't.

Neal Shusterman

#55. With the caveat that it is much more difficult and much more dangerous and much more interesting to be a magician than it is to be a carpenter.

Lev Grossman

#56. Escapism has value, even if I don't know what its value is, exactly. Maybe it's just part of some healthy way that we deal with the world.

Lev Grossman

#57. he'd fantasized about having nothing to do except lie on his bed and sleep and stare into space, but now those empty hours were here, and they were getting old amazingly fast.

Lev Grossman

#58. If my generation is remembered for anything, it will be as the last one that remembers the world before the Internet.

Lev Grossman

#59. What about Josh?" he croaked. "Go ask him." "He's got another project." Janet rolled her eyes. "He thinks he can use the Neitherlands to get to Middle-earth. He honestly believes he's going to bone an elf." "I

Lev Grossman

#60. At the top end you had some fairies squeeing at supersonic pitches; fairies thought all this military stuff was pretty silly, but they went along with it for the same reason that fairies ever did anything, namely, for the lulz.

Lev Grossman

#61. While in theory digital technology entails the flawless replication of data, its actual use in contemporary society is characterized by the loss of data, degradation, and noise; the noise which is even stronger than that of traditional photography.

Lev Manovich

#62. He had painstakingly assembled all the ingredients of happiness. He had performed all the necessary rituals, spoken the words, lit the candles, made the sacrifices. But happiness, like a disobedient spirit, refused to come. He couldn't think what else to do. He

Lev Grossman

#63. He was obviously one of those people who felt at home in the world-he was naturally buoyant, where Quentin felt like he had to dog-paddle constantly, exhaustingly,humiliatingly, just to get one sip of air.

Lev Grossman

#64. The higher you get the more you realize how much bigger than you everything

Lev Grossman

#65. A method is more important than a discovery, since the right method will lead to new and even more important discoveries.

Lev Landau

#66. He disliked the narrative aspects of history, particularly that part of it. People were so boringly deformed by it, like Ash, or else, like Lev, scarcely aware of it.

William Gibson

#67. I hope," she said, "that you don't think you're going to keep me here with bacon." "Not

Lev Grossman

#68. When you get down to it, at it's root, Comedy is truth, absurdity, and pain. One of my little mottos is: 'Do you remember the Peanuts cartoon where Charlie Brown kicked the football and kissed the Little Red Haired Girl? Neither do I.'

Lev Yilmaz

#69. Careful what you hunt, lest you catch it.

Lev Grossman

#70. That was magic for you, right? The thing about magic, the real kind: it didn't make excuses, and it was never funny.

Lev Grossman

#71. It was the strangest thing, but he was looking forward to everything so much, he could hardly stand it. He never would have believed it. He never thought he would.
"You know what?" He took Alice's hand. "Let's fly.

Lev Grossman

#72. You. Killed. A. Hermit. You. Weird. Sweaty. Bastard!

Lev Grossman

#73. Supposedly the Thames dragon wrote most of Pink Floyd's stuff. At least after Syd Barrett left. But there's no way to prove it.

Lev Grossman

#74. If there was any magic in this world that was not magic, it was wine.

Lev Grossman

#75. To know makes me grow
Not to know harms me
To forget frees me.

Edouard Leve

#76. The joy of seeing Yuri Gagarin flying in space is only superseded by the joy of a good penalty save.

Lev Yashin

#77. Everything will be all right, She seemed to say, and whatever is not, we will mourn.

Lev Grossman

#78. She was the most beautiful, terrible thing he'd ever seen, like an acetylene flame, an incandescent filament, a fallen star right in front of him.

Lev Grossman

#79. Writing should be meaningful for children, Y an intrinsic need should be aroused in them, and Y writing should be incorporated into a task that is necessary and relevant.

Lev S. Vygotsky

#80. Not that she was a know-it-all - it didn't seem to be an ego thing with her. She just assumed that everybody shared her desire for everybody to be clear on everything, and she'd expect you to do the same for her.

Lev Grossman

#81. That's it?" "That's it. And then you jump in. It's all just tradition. I mean,

Lev Grossman

#82. Fusion will be ready when society needs it.

Lev Artsimovich

#83. No one gets punished for anything. We do whatever we want, and that's all we do, and nobody stops us, and nobody cares.

Lev Grossman

#84. She was too tired to feel anything more, she wanted a book to do to her what books did: take away the world, slide it aside for a little bit, and let her please, please just be somewhere and somebody else

Lev Grossman

#85. The paradox of the English country house is that its state of permanent decline, the fact that its heyday is always behind it, is part of the seduction, just as it is part of the seduction of books in general.

Lev Grossman

#86. A mind cannot be independent of culture.

Lev Vygotsky

#87. The silver years of the Chatwins are long ago now, and the years since have been forged from baser metals. You

Lev Grossman

#88. Do you know, I had almost lost faith in the goddess? I almost stopped believing in Her. But I realized I had to become something. I had to take what was done to me and use it to make myself into what I wanted to be. And I wanted this. And when I called Her, the goddess came.

Lev Grossman

#89. I never went back to my room. I took the Fung Wah bus from South Station.

Lev Grossman

#90. A key part of successfully being Julia, it seemed, was not giving a shit if you looked weird.

Lev Grossman

#91. Cowards hide [ ... ] but warriors lie and wait [ ... ] the only difference is whether you're motivated by fear or purpose.

Neal Shusterman

#92. You don't want to move toward some utopian literary situation where everybody's free of all conventions. That's ridiculous! Conventions are what you need. You have nothing to break down if you don't have conventions.

Lev Grossman

#93. Stop looking for the next secret door that is going to lead you to your real life. Stop waiting. This is it: there's nothing else.

Lev Grossman

#94. Are you kidding? That guy was a mystery wrapped in an enigma and crudely stapled to a ticking fucking time bomb. He was either going to hit somebody or start a blog.

Lev Grossman

#95. Without meditation, contemplation and skillful action, the anger lurking in your mind can become
the (d)anger within your life."

Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev)

Leonard Perlmutter

#96. He was experimenting cautiously with the idea of being happy, dipping an uncertain toe into those intoxicatingly carbonated waters.

Lev Grossman

#97. Give a nerd enough time and a door he can close and he can figure out pretty much anything.

Lev Grossman

#98. Josh speculated about the hypothetical contents of an imaginary porn magazine for intelligent trees that would be entitled Enthouse.

Lev Grossman

#99. We among all animals were cursed with a longing for somewhere better, somewhere that never existed and never would.

Lev Grossman

#100. The trick is to smoke a cigarette to calm your nerves and then take a big swig of strong liquor to tone your muscles.

Lev Yashin