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 Rogers

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

Martin Luther King, Jr.

War is a poor chisel to carve out tomorrow.

Mark Wahlberg

I miss being able to wake up when I want and go on stage when I want and pull down my pants when I want.

Mark Knopfler

Sometimes you're the windshield; sometimes you're the bug.

Mark Hoppus

Thats not a place where I'm considered good-looking.

Mickey Mantle

You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.

Nathan Myhrvold

Software sucks because users demand it to.

Naguib Mahfouz

God did not intend religion to be an exercise club.

Miriam Makeba

I have to go and say farewell to all the countries that I have been to, if I can. I am 73 now, it is taxing on me.

R. D. Laing

Life is a sexually transmitted disease.

Publilius Syrus

Anyone who believes that men are the equal of women has never seen a man trying to wrap a Christmas present.

Pierre Salinger

A funny thing happened on the way to the election - I got to the Senate first.

Jeff Goldblum

I travel for work, but recently, friends said I should take major trips.

Jean Rostand

My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.

Jean Rostand

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

Jean Rostand

Kill one man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conqueror. Kill them all, and you are a god.

Groucho Marx

As soon as I get through with you, you'll have a clear case for divorce and so will my wife.

Groucho Marx

Dig trenches? With our men being killed off like flies? There isn't time to dig trenches. We'll have to buy them ready made.

Groucho Marx

I've been around so long, I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.

Groucho Marx

If you've heard this story before, don't stop me, because I'd like to hear it again.

Groucho Marx

All geniuses die young.

Groucho Marx

You can leave in a huff. Or you can leave in a minute and a huff.

Groucho Marx

The first thing which I can record concerning myself is, that I was born. These are wonderful words. This life, to which neither time nor eternity can bring diminution - this everlasting living soul, began. My mind loses itself in these depths.

Groucho Marx

The trouble with writing a book about yourself is that you can’t fool around. If you write about someone else, you can stretch the truth from here to Finland. If you write about yourself the slightest deviation makes you realize instantly that there may be honor among thieves, but you are just a dirty liar.

Groucho Marx

Do you mind if I don't smoke?

Groucho Marx

I did toy with the idea of doing a cook-book . . . The recipes were to be the routine ones: how to make dry toast, instant coffee, hearts of lettuce and brownies. But as an added attraction, at no extra charge, my idea was to put a fried egg on the cover. I think a lot of people who hate literature but love fried eggs would buy it if the price was right.

Groucho Marx

And stop pointing that beard at me, it might go off!