The opposite of talking isn’t listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
FRAN LEBOWITZYou’re only as good as your last haircut.
More Fran Lebowitz Quotes
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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.
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My favorite animal is steak.
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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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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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Andy Warhol made fame more famous.
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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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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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Very few people possess true artistic ability. It is therefore both unseemly and unproductive to irritate the situation by making an effort.
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The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores.
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You’re only as good as your last haircut.
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Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
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Your life story would not make a good book. Don’t even try.
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No animal should ever jump up on the dining-room furniture unless absolutely certain that he can hold his own in the conversation.
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