Frank Zappa Quotes

There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

Frank Zappa

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• The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts of the substantive law.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Experience
  • History
  • Law

• How movies are financed, it's a world market now... I feel like, you know, the independent film way of working is something that was in my bones. It's like being a part of a punk band, but no one's singing punk rock anymore. Only a few bands are able to play, and Woody Allen is one of them.

  

  Parker Posey
  • World
  • Band
  • Rock

• We need to build systems that can automatically figure out what's high quality and what's not, and encourage users to contribute high-quality content. There's a lot of technical challenges in that.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • High
  • Quality
  • Challenges

• I think it is the height of ignorance to believe that the sexual act is an independent function necessary like sleeping or eating. Seeing, therefore, that I did not desire more children, I began to strive after self-control. There was endless difficulty in the task.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Believe
  • Children
  • Control

• If I get to wrapped up in how I have to be, or what I have to do, things gradually get worse and worse.

  

  Namie Amuro
  • Up
  • Things
  • Worse

• Ideas are nothing. They're irrelevant. If you think your idea is so important, you're doomed. The reality is if you don't like one idea, I've got 299 more. If I tell you my idea, and you can execute better against that idea than I can - great; I get to play a terrific game.

  

  Warren Spector
  • Great
  • Important
  • Game

• I had made up my mind to find a woman to share my life: one who would leave London altogether and go with me into the green country and be satisfied.

  

  W. H. Davies
  • Life
  • Up
  • Country

• The rudiment of verse may, possibly, be found in the spondee.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • May
  • Found
  • Verse

• There was a time when I was in this private school and the kids were so conservative and close-minded that it was just appalling.

  

  Ione Skye
  • Time
  • School
  • Kids

• Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.

  

  Dan Ariely
  • Smart
  • Really
  • Thinkers

• My advice to owners of fashion brands is that you have to give digital a seat at the board table. A lot of brands treat digital strategy as something on the side.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Fashion
  • Advice
  • Treat

• There is less fighting in the game than we had years ago. I mean, we penalize it.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Game
  • Fighting
  • Years

• The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Good
  • Leadership
  • Luck

• I sing in a higher register, and you haven't heard that on the radio in years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • You
  • Years
  • Radio

• When I was writing songs or performing or producing or dabbling in movies or even putting my career on hold to go to art school, I was just following my muse. A woman who did that then was criticized for having no direction. Today they call it versatility.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Writing
  • School
  • Art

• Anything could happen. Together, she and Ulysses could change the world. Or something.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • World
  • She
  • Together

• The machine is only a tool after all, which can help humanity progress faster by taking some of the burdens of calculations and interpretations off its back. The task of the human brain remains what it has always been; that of discovering new data to be analyzed, and of devising new concepts to be tested.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Help
  • Brain
  • Humanity

• The principal tenet of Jainism is non-harming. Observant Jains will literally not harm a fly. Fundamentalist Jainism and fundamentalist Islam do not have the same consequences, neither logically nor behaviorally.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Fly

• Every thought you produce, anything you say, any action you do, it bears your signature.

  

  Thich Nhat Hanh
  • Action

• You don't look at a painting and ask if the artist was gay or straight. I think it's irrelevant in any situation - I don't care if my garbageman is gay or straight as long as he picks up the garbage.

  

  Bryan Batt
  • Up
  • Long
  • Gay

• So far as we are human, what we do must be either evil or good: so far as we do evil or good, we are human: and it is better, in a paradoxical way, to do evil than to do nothing: at least we exist.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Good
  • Way
  • Evil

• If you are made for flight, intended for it, you had better find a pursuer, fast. Otherwise, all that fleeing is going nowhere.

  

  Dan Chiasson
  • Made
  • Ifs
  • Flight

• We must treat water as if it were the most precious thing in the world, the most valuable natural resource. Be economical with water! Don't waste it! We still have time to do something about this problem before it is too late.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • Problem
  • Water
  • Things

• There are more love songs than anything else. If songs could make you do something we'd all love one another.

  

  Frank Zappa