Quotes of: Levity Keyword

I try to conduct my life with a little levity.

Sheryl Crow

Nothing like a little judicious levity.

Robert Louis Stevenson

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

Doris Day

If art can never offer levity, then I'll have none of it!

Annette (Schrab) Clark

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

Brian Eno

I oftentimes find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out of necessity.

Joel Edgerton

Moderate strength is shown in violence, supreme strength is shown in levity.

The Man Who Was Thursday: A Nightmare

Unhappy times are the best for levity. You don't light candles in the middle of the day, do you?

Joe Ambercrombie

I have a lot more fun making comedies because there's a levity on the set, and I find it difficult to go to work and, you know, cry for 12 hours.

Megan Fox

The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure.

Saul Bellow

In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity around. I've worked on more lighthearted pieces that have been more brutal and tougher to make.

Nick Stahl

There's a film I did called 'Front of the Class', about a teacher who had Tourette's. That was a beautiful blend of drama and comedy. There's some great moments of levity in the script.

James Wolk

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.

Francis Atterbury

The thing which grieves and oppresses my heart with respect to poor Scotland, is the hardness of heart manifest in the levity and cruelty with which they speak of others.

Edward Irving

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

George Bernard Shaw

'Burn Notice' is a show that definitely has some levity to it and it's a fun show, but it's also, you fully believe, you're fully invested that Michael Westen does this stuff. You want Michael Westen on your team.

Tricia Helfer

Dickinson is my hero because she was a joker, because she would never explain, because as a poet she confronted pain, dread and death, and because she was capable of speaking of those matters with both levity and seriousness. She's my hero because sh...

Helen Oyeyemi

I make 98% of my collection in New York City and am generating jobs, so fashion isn't just frivolous for me. I understand levity about it. I also understand the depth of it.

Prabal Gurung

Unbelievable,” Gavin said. “There’s a whole legion of magical beings living on Earth and only Aquarians know about them.” “We come in peace,” Ilauria said, surprised at her attempt at levity. A wide grin replaced his serious expression. �...

Luminous

What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or at the barri...

Tom Robbins

But thoughtless ingratitude is the armour of the young; without it, how would they ever get through life? The old wish the young well, but they wish them ill also: they would like to eat them up, and absorb their vitality, and remain immortal themsel...

The Blind Assassin