Oscar Levant Famous Quotes
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
"I have no trouble with my enemies. But my goddam friends,...they are the ones that keep me walking the floor nights."
Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.
"The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too."
So little time and so little to do.
I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.
"I once said cynically of a politician, 'He'll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.'"
I am no more humble than my talents require.
Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
"What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left."
Oscar Levant Quotations
The African is my brother-but he is my younger brother by several centuries.
Albert Schweitzer
"You may not be in a class by yourself, but it sure doesn't take long to call the roll."
Bum Philips
"Certainly virtue is like precious odors, most fragrant when they are incensed, or crushed for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue."
Francis Bacon
Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge Where is the knowledge we have lost in information
T S Eliot
"We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge."
George Will
I have the heart of a child. I keep it in a jar on my shelf.
Robert Bloch
"It is through creating, not possessing, that life is revealed."
Vida D Scudder
The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.
Doris Day
"It will be an ill day when our brethren take to bragging and boasting and call it 'testimony to the victorious Christian life.' We trust that holiness will be more than ever the aim of believers, but not the boastful holiness which has deluded some of the excellent of the earth into vain glory, and under which their firmest friends shudder for them."
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
"When you're a lawyer, you expect your client to lie to you, but not when he is the president."
Dick Houser