Fran Lebowitz

Bekannte Zitate von Fran Lebowitz

You're only as good as your last haircut.

Andy Warhol made fame more famous.

Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

You can't go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do.

There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness or death. Any attempt to prove otherwise constitutes unacceptable behavior.

My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.

If you are truly serious abut preparing your child for the future, don't teach him to subtract teach him to deduct.

Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort. If you have a burning, restless urge to write or paint, simply eat something sweet and the feeling will pass.

Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.

Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.

All God's children are not beautiful. Most of God's children are, in fact, barely presentable.

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

Romantic love is mental illness. But it's a pleasurable one. It's a drug. It distorts reality, and that's the point of it. It would be impossible to fall in love with someone that you really saw.

Polite conversation is rarely either.