Showing posts with label Frank Zappa. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Frank Zappa. Show all posts

Saturday, April 18, 2009

Quotaria

"A compromise is the art of dividing
a cake in such a way that everyone
believes he has the biggest piece."
- Ludwig Erhard


"[Abstract art is] a product of the
untalented, sold by the unprincipled
to the utterly bewildered."
- Al Capp

"It was a book to kill time for
those who like it better dead."
- Dame Rose Macaulay

"Anything too stupid
to be said is sung."
- Voltaire

"History is the version of past events
that people have decided to agree upon."
- Napoleon Bonaparte

"Art is making something out
of nothing and selling it."
- Frank Zappa

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Quotes

Ninety Percent of life is
miserable-if you're lucky.
- Eric Marcus

Things are going to get a lot
worse before they get worse.
- Lily Tomlin


"I quit therapy because my analyst was
trying to help me behind my back."
- Richard Lewis

"The only athletic sport I ever
mastered was backgammon."
- Douglas William Jerrold

"Rock journalism is people who can't
write interviewing people who can't
talk for people who can't read."
- Frank Zappa

"A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life."
- Charles Darwin

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Quotaria

"Reason has always existed, but
not always in a reasonable form."
- Karl Marx

"Lying increases the creative
faculties, expands the ego,
and lessens the frictions
of social contacts."
- Clare Booth Luce

"I'm living so far beyond my income that
we may almost be said to be living apart."
- e e cummings

"The United States is a nation of laws:
badly written and randomly enforced."
- Frank Zappa

"The case has, in some respects, been
not entirely devoid of interest."
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint
the great ones to public office."
- Aesop

Monday, October 20, 2008

Quotes

"Television is the first truly democratic culture - the first culture
available to everybody and entirely governed by what the people want.
The most terrifying thing is what people do want."
- Clive Barnes

"Everybody believes in something and everybody, by
virtue of the fact that they believe in something,
use that something to support their own existence."
- Frank Zappa

"The man who insists on seeing with perfect
clearness before he decides, never decides."
- Henri-Frédéric Amiel

"Nothing is impossible. Some things
are just less likely than others."
- Jonathan Winters

"I do not want people to be agreeable, as
it saves me the trouble of liking them."
- Jane Austen

"There is just one life
for each of us: our own."
- Euripides