Levels Quotes - Page 55

If I'd made it right away as an actor, I would've stopped at a certain level and stayed there, probably as a character actor.

Through the imparting of moral principles, good behaviour, and education we must make the Chandala come up to the level of the Brahmana.

You have to sink way down to a level of hopelessness and desperation to find the book that you can write.

Governing is different than campaigning, and that comes with a whole different level of responsibility.

So long as State constitutions say that all may vote when twenty-one, save idiots, lunatics, convicts and women, you are brought down politically to the level of those others disfranchised.

I wear a hat on stage so that people won't be blinded by the reflection from my head. Also, if I don't wear a hat, there's no way that the hat can be at that level by itself on the stage.

When we look at what's going on in the world and we see the immense level of conflict that seems to always be happening - you can always trace it back to competing narratives.

The fascinating thing about human beings is that they don't last, and everything eventuates, and everything is very, very brief. And even if you do manage to look reasonably well as you age, unfortunately you are attacked at every level by illness and so forth. It's a fact of life.

The fact I've played well means that on a personal level I have enjoyed the season.

51 Martin [guitar] sounded pretty good as new guitar. Martin has several levels of guitars now, and this one is pretty good.

Deeply funny musings and adventures elevate Paul Rudnick to the highest level of American comedy writing.

If you have a sane economy, and by sane economy I mean one which is not addicted to debt, not a Ponzi economy, then the change in debt each year should contribute a minor amount to demand. Therefore, if you tried to correlate debt to the level of unemployment you would not find much of a correlation. Unfortunately that is not the economy we live in.

If I'd had a great level of success early on, who knows how I would have responded. I might have been a complete jerk.

Оur music, it's an acquired taste. It's almost cult, even at our level. It can mean nothing to somebody and it can mean everything to somebody else.

" Science is beginning to encroach on every level of our volition". And to me, that is a frightening social concept. It doesn't have anything to do with the right to have an abortion verses the right to life. It has to do with the ability of science to keep things alive and the ability of science to really control our lives.

At the presidential level, everybody knows that Hillary Clinton is going to stand up for women's reproductive rights.

I have been using the word 'other' as though it were self-explanatory, yet who the 'other' is must always be something of a mystery. It is a mystery at an immediate level in the sense that no person is entirely knowable.

Once one is beyond a certain level of commitment to the sport, life begins to seem an allegory of rowing rather than rowing an allegory of life.

I can't think of a comparable level of cultural excitement about something since Neil Armstrong landed on the moon in the 1960s.

An opened mind will eventually lead to a more well rounded artist and this will thus heightenen his or her level of professionalism.

An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it neither higher nor lower.

That is to say, politics is essentially about the management of fear, an economy of fear, continually adjusting the level of fear to produce the right level of affect in the citizenry.

I didn't have any qualifications when I left school - I had three O-levels.

I guess my approach to adapting books is to treat them with a deep respect on one level and at another level part them to one side and go, 'I'm doing something completely different here.'

We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold from them a knowledge of the true state of affairs commensurate with their intellectual level.