Fran Lebowitz Looks Quotations

Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.

Telling someone he looks healthy isn't a compliment -- it's a second opinion.

If food did not exist it would be well-nigh impossible to get certain types off the phone, as one would be unable to say, 'Look, I've got to run but let's have dinner sometime soon.'

Ever since I was a little child, I refused to see movies of books that I loved. Because you already know what Heidi looks like and she doesn't look like Shirley Temple.

I don't like to read nonfiction. To me, fact is something I can look up.

When people say, 'Doesn't Gloria [Vanderbilt] look great? She's 85.' I say, 'Yes, she was a raving beauty when she was 20,' that's the key. Very helpful.

When it comes to sports I am not particularly interested. Generally speaking, I look upon them as dangerous and tiring activities performed by people with whom I share nothing except the right to trial by jury.

I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.

Perhaps one of the more noteworthy trends of our time is the occupation of buildings accompanied by the taking of hostages. The perpetrators of these deeds are generally motivated by political grievance, social injustice, and the deeply felt desire to see how they look on TV.

Communists all seem to wear small caps, a look I consider better suited to tubes of toothpaste than to people.