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I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store. We go fish, we also catch fighting fish, looking for birds and it was for kampong people, the paddy field was our the play field for the children. I wanted to be a star, not a gallery mascot. In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity. The novel is born of disillusionment; the poem, of despair. Follow thy fair sun, unhappy shadow. I can't wait to get out. It's been much too long, I don't like being home. I'd rather play. This tour is going to be really big. We're gonna have the biggest show we can have. It's gonna be different not like the old KISS shows. All of the sports have a safety net, but boxing is the only sport that has none. So when the fighter is through, he is through. While he was fighting his management was very excited for him, but now that he is done, that management team is moving on. Necessity, the mother of invention. I haven't seen the film yet because I just got in from London. In the scenes where the two characters are bantering with each other, it is like bobbing at the net in tennis. When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking. I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me 24 hours a day. She wouldn't let me speak a word of English. I toured Ontario in the winter of '48, in a touring company of The Drunkard, in which I played the bartender. Girls like to be played with, and rumpled a little too, sometimes. The only thing a golfer needs is more daylight. I rememeber one time we were getting ready to go to South America and everything was packed up and in the car ready to go and I hid and I was crying because I really did not want to go, I wanted to play. I did not want to go. Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world. Within our dreams and aspirations we find our opportunities. Thought takes man out of servitude, into freedom. Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church. My dad had been an actor... not only had my dad been an actor, but his dad had been an actor, and my great-grandfather had been an actor. And who knows before then? Abstract painting is abstract. It confronts you. There was a reviewer a while back who wrote that my pictures didn't have any beginning or any end. He didn't mean it as a compliment, but it was. It's still not easy to find roles that offer more complex images of women. If you will stay with the majority of the Twelve Apostles, and the records of the Church, you will never be led astray. I grow old learning something new every day. There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing. When you're hot, you're hot; when you're not, you're not. It really takes likeable superstars to get the attention of the masses.

Rather fail with honor than succeed by fraud.
- Sophocles

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Edward Levi

As an instrument for practical action, law is responsive to the wisdom of its time, which may be wrong, but it carries forward, sometimes in opposition to this wisdom or passion, a memory of received values.

- Edward Levi


Law builds upon and, I should like to claim, is one of the liberal arts. It uses words of persuasion and changing definitions for practical ends.

- Edward Levi


The concept of reason itself appears as an artificial attempt to separate intellectual powers from the frustrations, emotions, and accidents which cause events; the concept of reason is viewed as facade to prevent change.

- Edward Levi


The introduction of many minds into many fields of learning along a broad spectrum keeps alive questions about the accessibility, if not the unity, of knowledge.

- Edward Levi


The role of a liberal arts college within a university is to be a genuine part of that university, giving and responding to the other parts.

- Edward Levi


The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

- Edward Levi


Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.

- Edward Levi


Edward Hirsch Levi was an American academic leader, scholar, and statesman who served as United States Attorney General.
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