Ahmet Zappa Quotes

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

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• I'm used to very low-budget situations. In 'The Exploding Girl,' we were literally changing in Starbucks because we didn't have trailers.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Girl
  • Very
  • Starbucks

• Ignorance is bliss. I wish I still had some.

  

  Adam Pascal
  • Wish
  • Ignorance
  • Bliss

• 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 forward, not back.

  

  Pat Nixon
  • Look
  • Back
  • Forward

• 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

• It's a funny thing. I'll be in my home town of Columbus at a restaurant or something, and the waiter maybe asks, 'What do you do?' and I say, 'Oh, I'm in a band... Twenty One Pilots,' and he'll say, 'Cool, I'll check it out. I never heard of them.' And then I say, 'In September we're playing the Schottenstein Center,' and it's like, 'What?!'

  

  Tyler Joseph Twenty One Pilots
  • Home
  • Funny
  • Band

• Bottomless wonders spring from simple rules, which are repeated without end.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • Simple
  • Wonder
  • Spring

• I don't want to be a flash in the pan. I want to be around for a very long time. I want to be like a Sheryl Crow or a Melissa Etheridge or even a Madonna with how her career has lasted so long and she is still respected in the music business. That's really what I am aiming for. I'm not really looking for 15 minutes of fame.

  

  Cheyenne Kimball
  • Career
  • Like
  • To Be

• The resources at Harvard - its professors, our fellow students, the libraries, its alumni - created for me the opportunity to pursue my passions in finance.

  

  Kenneth C. Griffin
  • Opportunity

• The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Society
  • Creative
  • Production

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

  

  Ahmet Zappa