Frank Zappa Famous Quotes
"It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice -- there are two other possibilities one is paperwork, and the other is nostalgia."
"Fact of the matter is, there is no hip world, there is no straight world. There's a world, you see, which has people in it who believe in a variety of different things. Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence."
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't read.
The United States is a nation of laws badly written and randomly enforced.
"In the fight between you and the world, back the world."
"Everybody believes in something and everybody, by virtue of the fact that they believe in something, use that something to support their own existence."
Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
Frank Zappa Quotations
When the mouse laughs at the cat there is a hole nearby.
Nigerian Proverb
"Life has loveliness to sell, All beautiful and splendid things, Blue waves whitened on a cliff, Soaring fire that sways and sings And children's faces looking up Holding wonder like a cup."
Sara Teasdale
You can't hit a home run unless you step up to the plate. You can't catch a fish unless you put your line in the water. You can't reach your goals if you don't try.
Kathy Seligman
Blame someone else and get on with your life.
Alan Woods
"Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving wordy evidence of the fact."
George Eliot
"Mistakes are a part of being human. Appreciate your mistakes for what they are precious life lessons that can only be learned the hard way. Unless it's a fatal mistake, which, at least, others can learn from."
Al Franken
Bombs do not choose. They will hit everything.
Nikita Khrushchev
"The breakfast of champions is not cereal, it's the opposition."
Nick Seitz
Friendship is the only cement that will hold the world together.
Unknown
"I wouldn't ever set out to hurt anyone deliberately unless it was, you know, important like a league game or something."
Dick Butkus