Frank Zappa Quotes

Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.

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• People think because I've got some success, I've made it, but in my eyes it's like, 'How long has Jay Z been in the business? How many albums has he got?' Not that I'm trying to be Jay Z, but I am trying to be around for a long time.

  

  J. Cole
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• My weekends are oases of time and space, where I am able to draw a breath and dive into the stuff I couldn't get to that week - the great article I bookmarked, the friend whose emails I kept dropping, the blog post I'd meant to write on a subject that wasn't timely but was still important.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Time
  • Great
  • Important

• My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • School
  • Library
  • Grandmother

• How can something that's 95% water be so divisive? Alone among vegetables, the poor, innocent stick of celery elicits the most vicious attacks.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Alone
  • Water
  • Poor

• Immigration is the sincerest form of flattery.

  

  Jack Paar
  • Immigration
  • Form
  • Flattery

• Ten people who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • People
  • Speak
  • Silent

• When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Mind
  • Think
  • Hands

• I was an escapee of childhood. I always wanted to grow up.

  

  Uma Thurman
  • Up
  • Childhood
  • Grow

• If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.

  

  M. H. Abrams
  • You
  • Learn
  • Changing

• The main dangers in this life are the people who want to change everything... or nothing.

  

  Nancy Astor
  • People
  • Life
  • Change

• Writing is not a matter of choice. Writers have to write. It is somehow in their temperament, in the blood, in tradition.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Writing
  • Choice
  • Tradition

• Workplaces still operate like it's 1962 and one person is always at home, and they are not very good at adjusting for the fact that a majority of women work and take care of children.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Good
  • Work
  • Women

• I'm deeply stressed as a filmmaker, and I know I'm not alone. The censorship crisis, the moral policing, the politics of it has most of us on edge. I'm scared to use certain words: like, if I use 'Bombay,' will there be a problem?

  

  Karan Johar
  • Words
  • Alone
  • Moral

• Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • Happy
  • Silly
  • Fools

• I once told Tommy Smothers, 'If I could just get the money and the women straightened out, the rest of my life would be easy.'

  

  Pat Paulsen
  • Life
  • Women
  • Money

• Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Real
  • Imagination
  • Thoughts

• Few revolutions succeed, and when they do, you often discover they did not gain what you hoped for, and you condemn yourself to perpetual fear, as the parties you defeated may always regain power and work for your ruin.

  

  Francesco Guicciardini
  • Work
  • May
  • Power

• We do not want chaos in South Africa.

  

  P. W. Botha
  • Want
  • Chaos
  • South

• I am overwhelmed with the love I have been receiving.

  Jacqueline Fernandez

• With function, flow, and form as basis, design is evaluated as a process culminating in an entity which intensifies comprehension.

  

  Ladislav Sutnar
  • Design

• From the middle of life onward, only he remains vitally alive who is ready to die with life.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Die
  • Alive

• I think that when you put yourself, as actors have to do, in other people's shoes, when you have to put on the costume that someone else has worn in their life, it gets much, much harder to be prejudiced against them and even to be - to not try to look at the world in a sense of "I'm not going to judge somebody. I'm going to try to understand who they are and what they're about."

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• Beauty is a pair of shoes that makes you wanna die.

  

  Frank Zappa
  • Die
  • Shoes