Fran Lebowitz Quotes

Think before you speak. Read before you think. This will give you something to think about that you didn't make up yourself - a wise move at any age, but most especially at seventeen, when you are in the greatest danger of coming to annoying conclusions.

Fran Lebowitz

Quotes to Explore

When I was 11, I realised that I did not have to live the life my mother had: school, marriage, children, apartment, summer house.

Maj Sjowall
- Life
- Live
- Children
We hear a lot about rebuilding Detroit, and we just spent $70 billion to bail out the auto industry - well, they need to be cost competitive, too. If they have high-cost energy, those suppliers are going to move to Japan or Mexico instead of Michigan and Tennessee.

Lamar Alexander
- High
- Energy
- Cost
I want to help middle-school girls stay interested in math and be good at it, and see it as friendly and accessible and not this scary thing. Everyone else in society tells them it's not for them. It's for nerdy white guys with pocket protectors.

Danica McKellar
- Good
- School
- Help
I like Baudelaire's sentences quite a lot. I read and re-read him very often.

Rachel Kushner
- Like
- Him
- Often
I started playing badminton when I was probably of eight years and ever since have been playing. I didn't go to university.

Rajiv Ouseph
- Years
- Go
- University
I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.

Madonna Breakfast Club
- Up
- Country
- Children