Frank Zappa Quotes

You're an asshole! You're an asshole! That's right! You're an asshole! You're an asshole! Yes yes!

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• I love a bit of a sequin and a bead. I do, even though I usually wear trousers, when I put a frock on. I like a bead or a sequin.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Love
  • Like
  • Wear

• Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Effort
  • Explain
  • Theology

• The data says that with the poor, a little money can buy a lot of happiness. If you're rich, a lot of money can buy you a little more happiness. But in both cases, money does it.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Money
  • Happiness
  • Data

• On almost every issue involving postwar Iraq, Bush's assumptions and policies have been wrong. This strange combination of arrogance and incompetence has not only destroyed the hopes for a new Iraq. It has had the much broader effect of turning the United States into an international outlaw.

  

  Fareed Zakaria

• It's certainly easy to calculate the average attendance for Perl conferences.

  

  Larry Wall

• With just enough of learning to misquote.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Learning

• Though our own hearts break, we cannot flinch; these are new times, sir. There is a misty plot afoot so subtle we should be criminal to cling to old respect and ancient friendships. I have seen too many frightful proofs in court - the Devil is alive in Salem, and we dare not quail to follow wherever the accusing finger points!

  

  Arthur Miller
  • Respect
  • Devil
  • Friendships

• If you want peace, you don't talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.

  

  Desmond Tutu
  • Friends
  • Peace

• While the women of the older generation were thankful if only they succeeded in obtaining 'a work and a duty,' however monotonous and wearing it might be, the will of the younger generation for a pleasurable labour has fortunately increased.

  

  Ellen Key
  • Work
  • Women
  • Thankful

• In Tennessee, you can live off fast food. It's everywhere... But it's nowhere in San Francisco, and I didn't know how to navigate the city to eat.

  

  Matt Cain
  • Live
  • Food
  • City

• I went to music school, and I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student.

  

  Bjork
  • Music
  • School

• I say I don't need a tax cut. It will not do me any more good. I can't buy more, I can't eat more, I can't do more, and I want it distributed among the ordinary people who work every day.

  

  Frank Lautenberg
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I'm unconventional and eccentric and talk things out, and it seemed that the person I married - maybe in reaction - got quieter and more conventional over time. It felt as if we were putting each other in a straitjacket.

  

  Alexandra Fuller
  • Time

• Thus we have at least a national song that unites all Germans, and is the symbol of our sixty-million nation.

  

  Friedrich Ebert
  • Song

• A dress should never take over someone.

  

  Jenny Packham

• I know that there are people who believe that if they get to the stage where life is absolutely intolerable because of pain and indignity... they would like to end their life before nature intended, and we think they should have the choice to do so.

  

  Margo MacDonald
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• There's a reason that all societies and cultures and small bands of humans engage in myth-making. Fundamentally, it is to help us understand ourselves.

  

  Philipp Meyer
  • Help
  • Small

• Before 'Fallen,' I'd written love stories and more love stories. I'd fallen in love with love stories - but they were also beginning to feel just a little bit too insular, too small.

  

  Lauren Kate
  • Small
  • Beginning

• All of a sudden, I'm thinking, these guys Afghani men aren't so bad. I'm like the type of asshole where if you're nice to me once, I'm your friend for life. Sure, you hacked your kid's clit off, but you were nice!

  

  Kathy Griffin
  • Life
  • Men
  • Thinking

• I used to say things like, 'My name's not Al (Bundy), you know?' Not to the press, but to fans. 'My name is actually Ed.' I'd find myself saying that, and I'd think, 'Who do you think they think you are? They only know you from that!' And finally I just got...I don't know, I guess a switch went on for me, and I realized, 'This was the greatest job that you've ever had in your life. Why are you acting like an asshole?' So from that minute on, I kind of...well, I hate the word 'embraced,' but I just kind of went, 'Yeah, okay.' 'So you're Al, right?' 'Yep!'

  

  Ed O'Neill
  • Life
  • Why
  • Job

• Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.

  

  Lawrence Durrell

• When I was at Yale, I hung a bit with the Warhol gang. I used some of his superstar types in early movies. I can't say I had any conversations with him, but I did pass him at Max's Kansas City. But I was a big fan of his movies.

  

  Lloyd Kaufman
  • City
  • Gang

• Without discipline, there's no life at all.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Life
  • Discipline

• You're an asshole! You're an asshole! That's right! You're an asshole! You're an asshole! Yes yes!

  

  Frank Zappa
  • Asshole