Levels famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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A racing tipster who only reached Hitler's level of accuracy would not do well for his clients.
-- A. J. P. Taylor -
AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.
-- A. O. Scott -
I know I'm capable of greatness, and I'm expecting to reach that level.
-- Aaron Rodgers -
There's a certain level of pageantry with 'Idol,' and in order to work the show, you kind of have to feed into it.
-- Adam Lambert -
What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today.
-- Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje -
All propaganda must be popular and its intellectual level must be adjusted to the most limited intelligence among those it is addressed to.
-- Adolf Hitler -
The intimacy. The deepest level of love. The knowledge that someone understands you, is rooting for you, is sharing your life.
-- Adriana Trigiani -
I like the level of fame that I have. You get nice tables in restaurants sometimes, but fame isn't something that I find comfortable.
-- Aidan Quinn -
I'm sure I had low-level scurvy all of my childhood.
-- Aisha Tyler -
[Marlon] Brando's a giant on every level. When he acts it's as if he landed from another planet. A planet where they produce great actors.
-- Al Pacino -
What we seek, at the deepest level, is inwardly to resemble, rather than physically to possess, the objects and places that touch us through their beauty.
-- Alain de Botton -
We start off confused and end up confused on a higher level.
-- Alan Chalmers -
The job of a storyteller is to speak the truth. But what we feel most deeply can’t be spoken in words alone. At this level, only images connect. And here, story becomes symbol; symbol is myth. And myth is truth.
-- Alan Garner -
You don't score 64 goals in 86 games at the highest level without being able to score goals.
-- Alan Green -
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
-- Alan Perlis -
I think I've reduced the amount of blood in my caffeine system to an acceptable level.
-- Alastair Reynolds -
John [Coltrane] was like a visitor to this planet. He came in peace and he left in peace; but during his time here, he kept trying to reach new levels of awareness, of peace, of spirituality. That's why I regard the music he played as spiritual music -- John's way of getting closer and closer to the Creator.
-- Albert Ayler -
After a certain high level of technical skill is achieved science and art tend to coalesce in aesthetics, plasticity, and form. The greatest scientists are artists as well.
-- Albert Einstein -
The problems of today can only be solved at a higher level of thinking than that which created them
-- Albert Einstein -
Thanks to words, we have been able to rise above the brutes; and thanks to words, we have often sunk to the level of the demons.
-- Aldous Huxley -
The infinite vibratory levels, the dimensions of interconnectedness are without end. There is nothing independent. All beings and things are residents in your awareness.
-- Alex Grey -
Practice rather than preach. Make of your life an affirmation, defined by your ideals, not the negation of others. Dare to the level of your capability then go beyond to a higher level.
-- Alexander Haig -
Power seems to confer on its possessor a mantle of superiority, specialness, and sexual potency, which the envious person desperately wants because he feels himself on some level to be inferior, unimportant, and impotent.
-- Alexander Lowen -
You can never connect on a deeper level if you idolise someone - you don't see the real person.
-- Alexander Skarsgard -
It's obvious we can't all be a Gully Foyle, but most of us energize at such a low level, so far short of our real capabilities, we could all be more, do more.
-- Alfred Bester -
The objective level is not words, and cannot be reached by words alone. We must point our finger and be silent, or we will never reach this level.
-- Alfred Korzybski -
I'm very touched on a deep level by cruelty to animals.
-- Ali MacGraw -
All History is current; all injustice continues on some level, somewhere in the world.
-- Alice Walker -
Amount of search is not a measure of the amount of intelligence being exhibited. What makes a problem a problem is not that a large amount of search is required for its solution, but that a large amount would be required if a requisite level of intelligence were not applied.
-- Allen Newell -
Health insurance needs to be affordable and available for everyone, not just the wealthy. I will always fight to improve the access, level of care, and affordability of health care.
-- Alma Adams -
My passion should be clear and please know it runs deep within all levels of my consciousness. I feel it. I feel everything.
-- Alyssa Milano -
The excitement level for me working on projects is really not a bit different from when I was 26.
-- Amar Bose -
Filipinos are not a reading people, and despite the compulsory course on the life and works of Rizal today, from the elementary to the university levels, it is accepted that the 'Noli me Tangere' and 'El Filibusterismo' are highly regarded but seldom read (if not totally ignored). Therefore one asks, how can unread novels exert any influence?
-- Ambeth R. Ocampo -
I assemble stories-me and a hundred million other people-at the sentence level. Not by coming up with a sweeping story line.
-- Amy Hempel -
How could the adventure seeker of today find satisfaction with the level of performance that was a standard set more than 40 years ago ?
-- Anatoli Boukreev -
The simplest Surrealist act consists of dashing down the street, pistol in hand, and firing blindly, as fast as you can pull the trigger, into the crowd. Anyone who, at least once in his life, has not dreamed of thus putting an end to the petty system of debasement and cretinization in effect has a well-defined place in that crowd with his belly at barrel-level.
-- Andre Breton -
I think we've put ourselves in a position that if we can go into the Big East and compete at the level that we aspire to compete at, we'll get out of this what we want.
-- Andy Kennedy -
I like to play with someone who can cover a lot of ground and someone with whom you can discuss the language at a reasonable level; otherwise it gets a bit frustrating.
-- Andy Summers -
There's a level of sophistication of filmmaking that's mind-boggling. Anything you need for your movie, there's an establishment that can make it happen really fast.
-- Ang Lee -
History is so full of high-level intelligence officials who actually worked for the other side that one is forced to conclude that whether or not top intelligence jobs attract the disloyal, they surely offer incentives to disloyalty.
-- Angelo Codevilla -
Red is a colour I've felt very strongly about. Maybe red is a very Indian colour, maybe it's one of those things that I grew up with and recognise at some other level.
-- Anish Kapoor -
Intruder on level one. All aliens, please proceed to level one.
-- Anna Lee -
They also explained how the sensors can monitor the levels of acetone on people's breath, and this can be used to tell people who suffer from diabetes when their next insulin shot is due. This is a more discreet method than what is currently on the market.
-- Anne Campbell -
No one tells you that your life is effectively over when you have a child: that you're never going to draw another complacent breath again... or that whatever level of hypochondria and rage you'd learned to repress and live with is going to seem like the good old days.
-- Anne Lamott -
In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.
-- Anthony Kiedis -
When you put someone on therapy, you lower the level of virus such that it makes it very difficult for them to infect others.
-- Anthony S. Fauci -
You can have an epidemic in a state. You can have it in a region. You can have it in a country where the critical level of disease passes a certain threshold, and we call that an epidemic threshold.
-- Anthony S. Fauci -
Ballroom dancing: it's a wonderful thing at so many levels because you've got to follow the rules. They used to call those rules etiquette once upon a time, but you don't really have that any more.
-- Anton du Beke -
It's a cinch that if you read it in an occult periodical or paperback, everyone's doing it. That should be your cue to avoid such stuff, lest you be relegated to the same readership level.
-- Anton Szandor LaVey -
Success lives with no address as people keep searching for it in spite of making any amount or level of progress
-- Anuj -
When you reach that competing point, when you reach that time when the gun is about to go off, everyone's level is pretty much the same. The one thing that's going to separate you from everybody else is how you deal with those pressures, how you stay relaxed.
-- Apolo Ohno -
A safety net for the poor indeed requires some level of income redistribution.
-- Ari Fleischer -
It was a startling task to undertake, for the Book of Mormon had never been illustrated before, at least on any professional level. There were no precedents.
-- Arnold Friberg -
The various levels of problems and issues are interwoven, so that solving any one of them without simultaneously addressing the others rarely works for long.
-- Arnold Mindell -
Life's greatest adventure is in doing one's level best.
-- Arthur Ernest Morgan -
The desire definitely comes from within. There are only a few people who make it to this level and those are the ones who have that innate desire.
-- Ashton Eaton -
By attempting the impossible one can attain the highest level of the possible.
-- August Strindberg -
Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.
-- Augustus William Hare -
I write the vocals last, because I wanted to invent the music first and push the music to the level that I had to compete against it.
-- Axl Rose -
In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.
-- Ayad Akhtar -
You commit yourself to such a level where there is no compromise. You give everything you have, everything, absolutely everything.
-- Ayrton Senna -
Once you are in it you are in it, you have to go all the way to the end because you commit yourself to such a level where there is no compromise. You give everything you have absolutely everything. Sometimes you find even more because you require more if you want to stay ahead and you want to win.
-- Ayrton Senna -
The higher level of grand strategy [is] that of conducting war with a far-sighted regard to the state of the peace that will follow.
-- B. H. Liddell Hart -
Given the nature and magnitude of the challenge, national action alone is insufficient. No nation can address this challenge on its own. No region can insulate itself from these climate changes. That is why we need to confront climate change within a global framework, one that guarantees the highest level of international cooperation.
-- Ban Ki-moon -
Once you've recognized your own limits, you've raised yourself to a higher level of being, since you're closer to the real you...
-- Banana Yoshimoto -
At the constitutional level, what we of course have assured is that women have the ability to make these reproductive decisions up to the point of viability.
-- Barack Obama -
Through experiments over the past few decades physicists have discovered matter to be completely mutable into other particles or energy and vice-versa and on a subatomic level, matter does not exist with certainty in definite places, but rather shows 'tendencies' to exist. Quantum physics is beginning to realise that the Universe appears to be a dynamic web of interconnected and inseparable energy patterns. If the universe is indeed composed of such a web, there is logically no such thing as a part. This implies we are not separated parts of a whole but rather we are the Whole.
-- Barbara Brennan -
Community action is as valuable a principle on the international level as it has been domestically.
-- Barney Frank -
You won't rise to the occasion - you'll default to your level of training.
-- Barrett Tillman -
I have a chef who makes sure that I'm getting the right amounts of carbs, proteins and fats throughout the day to keep me at my max performance level.
-- Barry Bonds -
You can't realise love or yourself until you are still enough to drop down through the restlessness and frustrations into that deeper level of your being
-- Barry Long -
Extremely disappointed that corruption may have reached such a level in Mexico.
-- Barry McCaffrey -
...the Federal Reserve has the capacity to operate in domestic money markets to maintain interest rates at a level consistent with our economic goals
-- Ben Bernanke -
In life, you don't have a level of confrontation and the nonsense you run into when you're a CEO. CEOs aren't born.
-- Ben Horowitz -
When I started writing at 18 or 19, I had a fear of anything autobiographical, but I've come to realise that my writing is very autobiographical at the emotional level.
-- Ben Marcus -
When I finished my A-levels, I assumed I'd be able to get work as an actor. But I couldn't. I didn't get an audition. Nothing. So I thought I'd better train and then the parts would come.
-- Ben Whishaw -
For me, it’s important to keep a level of anonymity,
-- Ben Whishaw -
With the increasing price levels, the farmers are benefiting. Dal, atta, vegetables have all become expensive. I am happy with this price rise. The more the prices rise the better it is for farmers
-- Beni Prasad Verma -
On a national level there is a tendency to portray Latino culture as a monolithic entity, which is a really inaccurate way of seeing ourselves. There is as much diversity and uniqueness within the Latino culture as there is in any other kind of American culture.
-- Benjamin Bratt -
Working with Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson takes you up another level.
-- Benmont Tench -
It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation. The other great tonic for the immune system is love—loving ourselves as well as others.
-- Bernie Siegel -
The whole realm of thought and opinion is utterly unsuited to public control; it ought to be as free, and as spontaneous as is possible. The state is justified in insisting that children shall be educated, but it is not justified in forcing their education to proceed on a uniform plan and to be directed to the production of a dead level of glib uniformity.
-- Bertrand Russell -
Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.
-- Bertrand Russell -
I hate to say it, but the truth is that the upscale line is where I get respect as a designer. The higher the price range, the higher the respect level from the industry, even though it's much easier to make a great $500 dress than a great $100 dress.
-- Betsey Johnson -
Rock musicians, and a vast array of popular-music musicians, due to their wealth, acquired through the mass of their notoriety, are able to be listened to and heard and thus are able to effect change on an international level.
-- Bill Dixon -
Everybody that loves Nancy loves it in a slightly condescending way. Nancy is comics reduced to their most elemental level.
-- Bill Griffith -
Is the ambient noise level of my life low enough for me to hear the whispers of the Lord?
-- Bill Hybels -
The nature of human beings is such that we tend not to drift into better behaviors. We usually have to be asked by someone to consider taking it up a level.
-- Bill Hybels -
I think multiple levels of undo would be wonderful, too.
-- Bill Joy -
Spend 70% of your spare time doing things close to home and the other 30% doing work at the global and national level.
-- Bill McKibben -
When you start out as a filmmaker, you do parodies, because you can't really compete on a studio level.
-- Bill Paxton -
You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.
-- Bill Paxton -
Productivity is driven at the enterprise level. Better wages, better performing workplaces, are driven at the workplace level.
-- Bill Shorten -
If you're going to establish a certain level of unreality than you have to deal with it
-- Bill Sienkiewicz -
Success at the highest level comes down to one question: Can you decide that your happiness can come from someone else's success?
-- Bill Walton -
I did not like prizes at school. I didn't like tests or exams, or the 11+, or O-levels. Later I hated B.A.s and M.A.s. The reason I hated them is that I don't like being tested, failed or falsely praised by anyone.
-- Billy Childish -
Vade Mecum I want the scissors to be sharp and the table perfectly level when you cut me out of my life and paste me in that book you always carry.
-- Billy Collins -
The Japanese actually approach the music on a high level. It's always been on a high level.
-- Billy Higgins
