Frank Zappa Quotes

It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

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• I want to have some effect on the way the world works in whatever way I can, and I also want to have the power to help get the movies that I think are important made.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • World
  • Important
  • Power

• Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • World
  • Want
  • Better

• I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements, so very important to this country's functioning around the world, has not only broken, but it has broken completely.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • World
  • Important
  • Country

• The number of children is not growing any longer in the world. We are still debating peak oil, but we have definitely reached peak child.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • World
  • Children
  • Growing

• I consider 'Dr. Horrible' a tremendous success. The fact that it won an Emmy I just think lends validity to what we were doing and the point we were trying to make: taking the power into someone else's hands and changing the world.

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • World
  • Trying
  • Power

• It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentionally lying that there is so much falsehood in the world.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • World
  • Truth
  • Lying

• After all, the chief business of the American people is business. They are profoundly concerned with producing, buying, selling, investing and prospering in the world.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • People
  • World
  • Business

• It's not what you take when you leave this world behind you. It's what you leave behind you when you go.

  

  Randy Travis
  • World
  • Leave
  • Behind

• The exercise of power is determined by thousands of interactions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, all the more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyone has a small part of himself in both.

  

  Vaclav Havel
  • World
  • Power
  • Small

• Ukrainian business must really embrace global competition. We need to understand that competition for resources and clients is not with competitors from across the street or from another city, but with millions of businesses around the world.

  

  Victor Pinchuk
  • World
  • Business
  • City

• The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.

  

  W. Eugene Smith
  • World
  • Just
  • Camera

• This world is clearly emerging before our eyes. The shifts ahead, the opportunities ahead are massive.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • World
  • Eyes
  • Opportunities

• What you do on tour is you build this 'You and me against the world' thing.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • World
  • Against
  • Tour

• Many of those who have paid the ultimate price for freedom have come through the wrestling ranks. We need to honor them and win this decision to have wrestling - the world's oldest sport - remain a part of the most prestigious athletic competition in the world, the Olympics.

  

  Dan Gable
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Decision

• Social is a better way to interact with digital world. It is better than search. Implications for... everything. Total change.

  

  Yuri Milner
  • World
  • Change
  • Search

• The world's greatest city - New York City - deserves a government that works for all New Yorkers. That starts with a mayor who is independent from party bosses and special interests, who isn't afraid to be honest with the people, and who is focused on the issues New Yorkers care about most.

  

  Sal Albanese
  • People
  • World
  • City

• I have the same goal I've had ever since I was a girl: I want to rule the world.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • World
  • Girl
  • Goal

• In the middle of my sophomore year, I was sent to boarding school, at the Cranbrook School for boys, in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, where I fell in love with Marilyn Monroe. I knew that she was the most beautiful woman in the world, and yet she was in pain, in need. She was unhappy. I believed that I could help her.

  

  Edmund White
  • World
  • Beautiful
  • Woman

• It appears to Nietzsche that the modern age has produced for imitation three types of man … First, Rousseau’s man, the Titan who raises himself … and in his need calls upon holy nature. Then Goethe’s man … a spectator of the world … Third Schopenhauer’s man … voluntarily takes upon himself the pain of telling the truth.

  

  Georg Brandes
  • World
  • Truth
  • Nature

• All the goodness of a good egg cannot make up for the badness of a bad one.

  

  Charles A. Dana
  • Goodness
  • Eggs
  • Badness

• For me the greatest revenge of all is having a happy adulthood, waking up in my gorgeous turquoise bedroom in the morning beside a person who really inspires me. That's the best revenge a girl-loving girl from the Bible belt could possibly have. And, importantly, it's healthy.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Girl

• Every album, I'm worried that I'm a dork and a fraud - 'What if I can't sing anymore?' Then I stop thinking and start playing guitar, and I realize that it's okay to suck, and move forward.

  

  Pink
  • Thinking
  • Stop

• If your desire for 'good' is based on greed, it is not good, but greed.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Good
  • Desire
  • Greed

• It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice. There are two other possibilities: one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia.

  

  Frank Zappa
  • World
  • Fire