We may perhaps learn to deprive large masses of their gravity and give them absolute levity, for the sake of easy transport. — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
The drug of choice in the modern age is levity. We want everything to be light and bubbly. We just want to… — Matt Chandler Copy Share Image
If brevity is the soul of wit then brevity and levity are the whole of it. — Michael R. Burch Copy Share Image
The body, she says, is subject to the force of gravity. But the soul is ruled by levity, pure. — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Ninety percent of all prisoners in all jails get out some day. So why not give them a little levity in what's… — Jeff Ross Copy Share Image
I oftentimes find with movies that the heavier the onscreen situation is, the more levity there is off screen. It's almost out… — Joel Edgerton Copy Share Image
“I never thought I would see you armed." I was trying for levity. It worked like a lead balloon.” — Melissa Jensen Copy Share Image
Economy is a subject which admits of being treated with levity, but it cannot so be disposed of. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I have always gravitated toward levity and my parents; I'm sure they have a VHS tape of me when I'm making jokes… — Natasha Rothwell Copy Share Image
In my experience sometimes the darker the material that you're doing, the more necessary it is to have some sort of levity… — Nick Stahl Copy Share Image
Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their… — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Even the strictest religious person from the strictest religious sect allows a little levity. Today, they congratulate you for carrying the Christian… — Bil Keane Copy Share Image
Some of the funniest moments I've had have been like, at a funeral. Somebody says something and everyone's laughing because you have… — Gloria Calderon Kellett Copy Share Image
You take the job very seriously and between action and cut, that's where your focus should be. And then there's a lot… — Cillian Murphy Copy Share Image
It really showed that you can do a major motion picture, from the folks at Marvel, that has multiple characters on an… — Jeph Loeb Copy Share Image
The lively and mercurial are as open books, with the leaves turned down at the notable passages. Their souls sit at the… — Christian Nestell Bovee Copy Share Image
Nourished people, people who love and care for themselves, are also more efficient and nicer to be around. When you give yourself… — Kathy Freston Copy Share Image
I don't feel like it's pressure. It's more of an obligation - not to entertain or be funny, but to have a… — Bill Murray Copy Share Image
If you have to do with one who is unquestionably a slanderer, do not excuse him by calling him frank and free-spoken;… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Alice?” She spun toward the door, her skirts whirling softly. “Yes?” she forced out. “Do you know what I am holding in… — Gaelen Foley Copy Share Image
What is politics, after all, but the compulsion to preside over property and make others people's decisions for them? Liberty, the very… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Be neat, Philothea; let nothing be negligent about you. It is a kind of contempt of those with whom we converse, to… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
However modest one may be in one's demand for intellectual cleanliness, one cannot help feeling, when coming into contact with the New… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Our design, not respecting arts, but philosophy, and our subject, not manual, but natural powers, we consider chiefly those things which relate… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
In infants, levity is a prettiness; in men a shameful defect; but in old age, a monstrous folly. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning. — Francis Atterbury Copy Share Image
Levity is the lubricant of a crisis. We resort to jokes, pranks and good natured kidding to relieve tension, stress and boredom. — Wally Schirra Copy Share Image
You can have levity in the film because real people look for levity in their lives. — David Michod Copy Share Image
Levity of behavior, always a weakness, is far more unbecoming in a woman than a man. — William Penn Copy Share Image
Indiscretion, rashness, falsehood, levity, and malice, produce each other. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
I've always had levity in my songs, so I like to turn things over, twist them around, and make fun of myself. — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I have a lot more fun making comedies because there's a levity on the set, and I find it difficult to go… — Megan Fox Copy Share Image
“Liberty, the very opposite of ownership and control, cannot, then, result from political action, either at the polls or the barricades, but… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“These are the moments when you feel the levity in your chest—when you see all the people passing by and you can’t… — J. Grigsby Crawford Copy Share Image
There are moments of levity. I feel like any great drama has moments of levity, or else it just becomes too hard… — Brandon Jay McLaren Copy Share Image
“Levity was ever your besetting sin,’ he said severely. ‘Let me tell you that it is not at all becoming in a… — Georgette Heyer Copy Share Image
Death. The certain prospect of death could sweeten every life with a precious and fragrant drop of levity- and now you strange… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The topic of global warming is so heavy that sometimes the only way you can open people's eyes is by greeting them… — Laurie David Copy Share Image
Levity, you need levity to feel anything. You need to laugh before you cry. I think films that take themselves too seriously… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
I follow a more easy, and, in my opinion, a wiser course, namely--to inveigh against the levity of the female sex, their… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
