Fran Lebowitz Quotes
If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
Quotes to Explore
-
What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
-
Everybody thinks they deserve something.
-
There are lots of different reasons to choose roles.
-
If you could find a way to peel back the skin of this world so to speak, would you really see this supernatural reality that is greater? Is it true that we fight not against flesh and blood but against principalities and powers? Every young person wants to know.
-
Aesthetically, I don't really like the blond, tan thing. I am pale. So I may as well embrace the pale. Long, blond hair and a bad spray tan is the stuff of my nightmares.
-
I love Frank Ocean. I think he's so talented and his music is so great. So, I would love to do one of his songs like 'Bad Religion' or 'Pink Matter.'
-
I'm not the girl who always has a boyfriend. I'm the girl who rarely has a boyfriend.
-
Indy, I have lots of great memories from there, and probably the part of me that doesn't feel quite as longing for it is that there is still a chance that I could do it again. It's not gone.
-
The best way to get to know the place you are traveling in is to walk around... and the best way to walk around is with comfortable shoes! Grab your travel buddy and your running shoes and go explore!
-
We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
-
The bad boy: always more fun.
-
If you can be well without health, you may be happy without virtue.
-
Writing a novel is like knocking on a door that will never open. You are so desperate to get in, you will say or do anything. You feel: please take my novel.
-
I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
-
Bailing out every bank that fails makes the system riskier, not safer.
-
I definitely like wearing leotards.
-
Of course, in the United States, which at the time was a very young country, there were also class distinctions. They weren't as pronounced, but they quickly evolved as well.
-
My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.'
-
Long-term trauma for women who have survived armed conflict is a haunting reminder that health issues and depression can follow decades after the end of war, but women who hope for healing can and do move forward.
-
Light the first light of evening, as in a room In which we rest and, for small reason, think The world imagined is the ultimate good.
-
I think that any of the places that's cut off from money, things come up, what the people have to rely on.
-
We must meet children as equals in that area of our nature where we are their equals...The child as reader is neither to be patronized nor idolized: we talk to him as man to man.
-
Everything about Mark Zuckerberg is pure hacker. Hackers don't take realities of the world for granted; they seek to break and rebuild what they don't like. They seek to outsmart the world.
-
If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.
