More from Oscar Levant
The first thing I do in the morning is brush my teeth and sharpen my tongue.
Often credited to Dorothy ParkerI once said cynically of a politician, ‘He’ll doublecross that bridge when he comes to it.’
The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965), p. 13It would have been better if you had died and Gershwin had written the elegy.
On a friend’s elegy for Gershwin; recounted in The Memoirs of an Amnesiac (1965)
More about genius
- NJNikolaus Joseph von JacquinOften credited to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Benjamin Franklin1706–1790Poor Richard’s AlmanackGenius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
