Fran Lebowitz Quotes

I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

Fran Lebowitz

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• It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.

  

  Valerie June
  • Judge
  • Songs
  • Boss

• What Washington needs is adult supervision.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Needs
  • Washington
  • Adult

• One who works for his own profit is likely to work hard. One who works for the use of others, without profit to himself, is likely not to work any harder than he must.

  

  B. Carroll Reece
  • Work
  • Own
  • Work Hard

• I have a Stella McCartney Adidas sports bra. I feel like I'm totally comfortable running. No problem. I have support where I need it.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Support
  • Running
  • Problem

• Any well-read man knows that the moral difference between the condition of the world before Christianity was planted and since Christianity took root is the difference between night and day, the kingdom of heaven and the kingdom of the devil.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • World
  • Night
  • Man

• 'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.

  

  Adam Davidson
  • Life
  • Work
  • Love

• The best people to provide valuable information about any society are the children of that society who belong to its culture and are part of its collective conscience.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Children
  • Society

• I just picked up golf, it was good, give me a chance to play golf.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Up
  • Good
  • Chance

• I obtained eight years of elementary education in a two-room school, where I encountered a stern but engaging teacher who awakened my intellect with instruction that would seem rigorous today in many colleges. History figured large in the curriculum, exciting for me what was to become an enduring interest.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • School
  • History
  • Today

• I was born technically in D.C., and then my family moved to the Columbia area when I was in elementary school. It was right on the line between Clarksville and Columbia in Howard County. I remember it being just like a peaceful, safe atmosphere. I always felt connected to the woods and that whole suburban feel.

  

  Gallant
  • Family
  • School
  • Remember

• When I was a kid, of course I wanted to be the fastest, the loudest and the one with the biggest drum set, but obviously my aspirations have changed a bit since then.

  

  Taylor Hawkins Foo Fighters
  • Changed
  • Kid
  • Loudest

• I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how riveting the action or interesting the plot twists, if I don't feel like I'm meeting someone who feels real, I'm not going to be compelled to read further.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Real
  • Character
  • Interesting

• Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Want
  • Effort

• There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Happiness
  • Sorrow
  • Prove

• A lot of black guys always ask me, 'Did Larry Bird really play that good?' I said, 'Larry Bird is so good it's frightening.'

  

  Magic Johnson
  • Good
  • Black
  • Bird

• I hate negative ads in general.

  

  Ed Rendell
  • Hate
  • Negative
  • General

• I do have, like, a regular childhood. I mean, I'm treated the same.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • Like
  • Childhood
  • Same

• My wife is very supportive.

  

  Demetrious Johnson
  • Wife

• I'd like to start writing scripts. I think I'd probably be inclined to write a very dark comedy or a tragic romance. As a kid, I used to write really dark stuff.

  

  Jessica Biel
  • Writing
  • Comedy
  • Dark

• A very wise father once remarked, that in the government of his children, he forbid as few things as possible; a wise legislature would do the same. It is folly to make laws on subjects beyond human prerogative, knowing that in the very nature of things they must be set aside. To make laws that man cannot and will not obey, serves to bring all law into contempt. It is very important in a republic, that the people should respect the laws, for if we throw them to the winds, what becomes of civil government?

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Children
  • Father
  • Government

• I was born to stand out. I don't care whether or not people will find me attractive on screen. That's not why I became an actor. I know that more and more with each new role.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • People
  • Why
  • Actors

• I never met anyone who didn't have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Children
  • Wonder
  • Child