Famous Quotes & Sayings

Frank Zappa

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

Frank Zappa

You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline. It helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer.

Frank Zappa

I never set out to be weird. It was always other people who called me weird.

Frank Zappa

A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs treat them like a license to behave like an asshole.

Frank Zappa

The most important thing to do in your life is to not interfere with somebody else's life.

Frank Zappa

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

Fred Saberhagen

Mysteries I read for fun, so I will probably never write one, for fear of spoiling the fun.

Fred Melamed

I always did plays in school because I thought it was fun, but it just never occurred to me as a thing to do.

Fred Hoyle

It is ironic that the scientific facts throw Darwin out, but leave William Paley, a figure of fun to the scientific world for more than a century, still in the tournament with a chance of being the ultimate winner... Indeed, such a theory is so obvious that one wonders why it is not widely accepted as being self-evident. The reasons are psychological rather than scientific.

Fred Rogers

Propel, propel, propel your craft softly down liquid solution. Ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, ecstatically, Existence is simply illusion.

Frank Herbert

Ecology is often confused with environmentalism, while in fact, environmentalism often leaves out the fact that people, too, can be a legitimate part of an ecosystem.

George Hamilton

When you hear Treat's [ Williams] doing a movie, or you'd like to work with Treat again, you hope the script is good. And then you find out the script is good. You go and you do it for the fun of it. And you feel like you can be proud of something.

George H. W. Bush

Old guys can still do fun things.

Honore de Balzac

No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

Jack Paar

Hollywood, we decided, was a nice place to die, but we wouldn't want to live there.

Iris Dement

Writing, overall, has never been what I'd call fun. It's fulfilling. It doesn't come real easy for me.

Gloria Swanson

The Sennett system of making pictures was actually fun. You never knew what the person next to you was going to do.

Iyanla Vanzant

What I am doing; how I am being as I am doing it; and does it bring honor to my community? What is the lesson in what I am doing? And most importantly, am I having fun?

Isaac Asimov

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

Ian MacKaye

Totally another bread and circus, when you think about it. That's a Roman concept where the government can do anything, as long as you give the people "bread and circuses." And I'd say this culture right now is similar, as long as people have money, fun, and food, our government can do heinous, heinous things.

Homer

Good things don't end in -eum; they end in -mania or -teria.

Geraldine Ferraro

It was not so very long ago that people thought that semiconductors were part-time orchestra leaders and microchips were very small snack foods.

J. L. Austin

Why should it not be the whole function of a word to denote many things?

J. K. Rowling

Where's the fun without a bit of risk?

J. K. Rowling

There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

J. K. Rowling

But Dumbledore says he doesn't care what they do as long as they don't take him off the Chocolate Frog cards.

H. L. Mencken

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

Geoffrey Zakarian

My agent called me and said, they watched you do Chopped Champions and they thought you'd be good for this competition. What do you think? And I said, well, what do you think? He said he thought it would be great and I said let's do it. When you decide to do this, you don't really think that you're going to win it. I thought it would be fun, good to test my mettle; games are fun like that. Why not? I'll try it.

Jerry Coleman

Ozzie Smith just made another play that I've never seen anyone else make before, and I've seen him make it more often than anyone else ever has.

Jerry Coleman

Trailing 5-1, the Padres added an insurance run in the eighth inning.

Jerry Coleman

Eric Show will be 0 for 10 if that pop fly ever comes down.

Jerry Coleman

They throw Winfield out at second, but he's safe.

Jerry Coleman

The ex-left-hander Dave Roberts will be going for Houston.