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polite conversation is rarely either
— Fran Lebowitz
I never had a typewriter. I never had any machines.
— Fran Lebowitz
I never would start writing before midnight and I would finish at, like, seven in the morning.
— Fran Lebowitz
There are too many books. The books are terrible. And this is because you have been taught to have self-esteem.
— Fran Lebowitz
The girl in your class who suggests that this year the Drama Club put on The Bald Soprano will be a thorn in people's sides all of her life.
— Fran Lebowitz
I drank my lifetime supply of alcohol and I took my lifetime supply of drugs between the ages of 15 and 19.
— Fran Lebowitz
Chocolate is an excellent flavor for ice cream but both unreasonable and disconcerting in chewing gum.
— Fran Lebowitz
That which we call civilization is merely the accumulated debris of a chilling number of bad nights.
— Fran Lebowitz
The great thing about New Jersey is that it's close to New York.
— Fran Lebowitz
This idea that people have to love and understand each other is absurd. It's not human nature.
— Fran Lebowitz
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
— Fran Lebowitz
If football taught me anything about business, it is that you win the game one play at a time.
— Fran Tarkenton
Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.
— Fran Lebowitz
If I lived in another country, like a country that was, say, an enemy of the United States, I would be more amused than I am.
— Fran Lebowitz
Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.
— Fran Lebowitz
Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?
— Fran Lebowitz
Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote yourself to it.
— Fran Lebowitz
No one earns $100 million. You steal $100 million.
— Fran Lebowitz
A dog who thinks he is a man's best friend is a dog who obviously has never met a tax lawyer.
— Fran Lebowitz
There's nothing like being old to be sure of everything.
— Fran Lebowitz
Children do not really need money. After all, they don't have to pay rent or send mailgrams.
— Fran Lebowitz
If you live in New York and you have a guest room, you have guests. So I think it's best not to have a guest room.
— Fran Lebowitz
[On parenthood:] You can't change your mind
you know, and say, this isn't working out, let's sell. — Fran Lebowitz
you know, and say, this isn't working out, let's sell. — Fran Lebowitz
[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.
— Fran Lebowitz
New Yorkers, we've seen Donald Trump for, like, 30 years; we know who he is. So he wasn't a surprise to me.
— Fran Lebowitz
The best fame is a writer's fame. It's enough to get a table at a good restaurant, but not enough to get you interrupted when you eat.
— Fran Lebowitz
mirror neurons create bonds of empathy, emotional attunement, and reciprocity between people.
— Fran Cohen Praver
Television isn't my career. Business is.
— Fran Tarkenton
Generally speaking, the poorer person summers where he winters.
— Fran Lebowitz
When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough.
— Fran Lebowitz
The second I learned to read in first grade, when I was 5, I preferred it to life. And I still do.
— Fran Lebowitz
It's very important who the president of the United States is. America is a great idea, so that's why it's a great country.
— Fran Lebowitz
Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.
— Fran Tarkenton
Generally speaking, it is inhumane to detain a fleeting insight.
— Fran Lebowitz
Instead of writing it wrong six times and then writing it right, I think it wrong six times and then write it right the seventh time.
— Fran Lebowitz
This, too, was part of losing Fran: watching all the things she'd made better with her presence fade blacker than they'd been before she came along.
— Seanan McGuire
The good thing about being in someone else's apartment is it's so much easier to leave than it is to get someone out.
— Fran Lebowitz
Commercials and sometimes other guests - it's the down side of TV. Other people - it's the downside of life in general.
— Fran Lebowitz
If thine enemy offend thee, give his child a drum.
— Fran Lebowitz
It's perfectly okay to want to quit - as long as you don't.
— Fran Tarkenton
Never allow your child to call you by your first name. He hasn't known you long enough.
— Fran Lebowitz
I've always been old at heart.
— Fran Lebowitz
I love sleep because it is both pleasant and safe to use.
— Fran Lebowitz
Communists all seem to wear small caps, a look I consider better suited to tubes of toothpaste than to people.
— Fran Lebowitz
I'm not the biggest comic book fan.
— Fran Kranz
If people don't want to listen to you, what makes you think they want to hear from your sweater?
— Fran Lebowitz
Civilised adults do not take apple juice with dinner.
— Fran Lebowitz
I always liked people who are older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them.
— Fran Lebowitz
If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies.
— Fran Lebowitz
Magazines all too frequently lead to books and should be regarded by the prudent as the heavy petting of literature.
— Fran Lebowitz
American women think that clothes fit them if they can fit into them. But that's not at all what fit means.
— Fran Lebowitz
I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.
— Fran Lebowitz
If I go to a concert or sporting event I usually go in a VIP entrance. And leave the same way.
— Fran Drescher
Fear causes people to draw back from situations. It brings on mediocrity, it dulls creativity, it sets one up to be a loser in life.
— Fran Tarkenton
But you have to remember, Fran, she's too old to change, but you are getting old enough to understand that.
— Stephen King
owned a fabric store. She
— Fran Stewart
Writers have problems writing sex scenes, because writing one really well is pornography.
— Fran Lebowitz
I went into the world, threw myself into the world, and great things came out of it.
— Fran Drescher
I choose the places I go to carefully and wisely. I'll rarely go to a shopping mall anymore.
— Fran Drescher
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
— Fran Lebowitz
What I can't be is monogamous. That tends to upset people. I just don't like domestic life.
— Fran Lebowitz
You can be nasty when you are young, but you really have to be older to achieve bitterness.
— Fran Lebowitz
Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
— Fran Lebowitz
Nothing succeeds like address.
— Fran Lebowitz
The New York Times Bestseller 'The Amateur,' written by Ed Klein, former editor of the 'New York Times Magazine,' is one of the best books I've read.
— Fran Tarkenton
I've lived three lifetimes in my short time.
— Fran Drescher
Donald Trump is not my fault. You can blame certain things on me, but not Donald Trump.
— Fran Lebowitz
To me the outdoors is what you must pass through in order to get from your apartment into a taxicab.
— Fran Lebowitz
Remember this: no matter how politely or distinctly you ask a Parisian a question he will persist in answering you in French.
— Fran Lebowitz
The thing you love right away, don't do it, because that's the very thing that's going to be your addiction for the rest of your life.
— Fran Lebowitz
I'm very involved in the writing on every level.
— Fran Drescher
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
— Fran Lebowitz
Life is something that happens when you can't get to sleep.
— Fran Lebowitz
I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life.
— Fran Lebowitz
I discovered that the more I hustled, the luckier I seemed to get.
— Fran Tarkenton
Well I could have been just a writer. I had been a hair dresser. I could have stuck with that.
— Fran Drescher
Sleep is death without the responsibility.
— Fran Lebowitz