Nothing succeeds like address.
FRAN LEBOWITZGreat people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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I never met anyone who didn’t have a very smart child. What happens to these children, you wonder, when they reach adulthood?
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The telephone is a good way to talk to people without having to offer them a drink.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
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Radio news is bearable. This is due to the fact that while the news is being broadcast, the disk jockey is not allowed to talk.
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In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy.
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Being a woman is of special interest only to aspiring male transsexuals. To actual women, it is simply a good excuse not to play football.
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The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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Calling a taxi in Texas is like calling a rabbi in Iraq.
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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I never took hallucinogenic drugs because I never wanted my consciousness expanded one unnecessary iota.
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Scientists – the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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I must take issue with the term ‘a mere child’, for it has been my invariable experience that the company of a mere child is infinitely preferable to that of a mere adult.
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Don’t bother discussing sex with small children. They rarely have anything to add.
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When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
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