Ahmet Zappa Quotes

I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.

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• It is not good enough for things to be planned - they still have to be done; for the intention to become a reality, energy has to be launched into operation.

  

  Walt Kelly
  • Good
  • Done
  • Reality

• English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Space
  • Football
  • English

• He who praises everybody, praises nobody.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Nobody
  • Everybody
  • He

• I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.

  

  Haley Lu Richardson
  • Moving
  • Acting
  • Expect

• Now, most of the new immigrants coming to this country are from Asia as opposed to Europe.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Country
  • Now
  • Immigrants

• If I could only remember that the days were, not bricks to be laid row on row, to be built into a solid house, where one might dwell in safety and peace, but only food for the fires of the heart.

  

  Edmund Wilson
  • Heart
  • Remember
  • House

• There is nothing like a good old recipe. If it has lasted, then it is good.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Good
  • Nothing
  • Old

• I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.'

  

  Pat Conroy
  • God
  • School
  • Me

• Xerox manages the infrastructure of E-ZPass for a large number of states. So when you say E-ZPass, and get some bill from E-ZPass, or call and ask a question about E-ZPass, you're talking to a Xerox person.

  

  Ursula Burns
  • You
  • Question
  • Talking

• Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Good
  • Art
  • Bad

• I have a very positive outlook.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Positive
  • Very
  • Outlook

• While in medical school, I was drafted into the U.S. Army with the other medical students as part of the wartime training program, and naturalized American citizen in 1943. I greatly enjoyed my medical studies, which at the Medical College of Virginia were very clinically oriented.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • School
  • American
  • College

• It's not a bad time to be me.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Nice
  • Strangers
  • Coming Up

• I always look for my mistakes so I can correct them in the future.

  

  Omri Katz
  • Future
  • Look
  • Mistakes

• Nothing is more dangerous to one's own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Work
  • Faith
  • Me

• I'm having a hard time understanding Donald Trump because he says one thing one day then corrects it the next day.

  

  Dan Coats
  • Time
  • Day
  • Understanding

• Facts are more mundane than fantasies, but a better basis for conclusions.

  

  Amory Lovins

• In situations of sparse resources along with degraded self-images and depoliticized sensibilities, one avenue for poor people is in existential rebellion and anarchic expression. The capacity to produce social chaos is the last resort of desperate people.

  

  Cornel West
  • People
  • Chaos

• I've just gained so much confidence in the booth since the 'Sit Still Look Pretty' era. I'm working with really talented producers and songwriters who bring out the best in me.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Pretty
  • Confidence

• I was watching something the other day which started out with five guys walking towards you and one woman, and there you go-it's still being dominated by the male society.

  

  Joan Severance
  • Society
  • Walking

• In order to be happy we must first possess inner contentment; and inner contentment doesn't come from having all we want; but rather from wanting and appreciating being grateful for all we have.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Happy
  • Gratitude
  • Order

• Very broadly, literature concerns itself with the internal, cinema with the external.

  

  Martin Amis
  • Literature

• Sweet is true love though given in vain, in vain; And sweet is death who puts an end to pain: I know not which is sweeter, no, not I. Love, art thou sweet? then bitter death must be: Love, thou art bitter; sweet is death to me. O Love, if death be sweeter, let me die. ... I fain would follow love, if that could be; I needs must follow death, who calls for me; Call and I follow, I follow! let me die.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Art
  • Death
  • Pain

• I picked books by their covers - the worse the cover, the more I wanted to read it.

  

  Ahmet Zappa