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Ahmet Zappa

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How sweet the task to shield an absent friend! I ask but this of mine to--not defend.
JOHN BYROM We felt that Random House had a deep commitment to the book.
DANA GIOIA Friendship is a double-edged sword one side it can be great and true but the other side it spells be...
GARY F EVANS... This newel post fixture is original to the house. Originally it was gas. The house originally was il...
GAIL HENRY Everyone always says how I'm so smart, but they don't know what it's like being me. always feeling l...
SUSANE COLASANTI The success of ordinary cosmology speaks against the idea that the universe was created in a random ...
LEONARD SUSSKIND The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from re...
MATT GROENING Congratulations, to the people which made gotham series, still need some more and extra work!
DEYTH BANGER To have the cognitive abilities to do research and development is vital to a forever expanding world...
GARY F EVANS... The first and foremost human right or fundamental right is the right to exist.
APURVA GAGLANI If we ever put research into what the subconscious is we could probably come to the conclusion that ...
GARY F EVANS... i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL The internet is killing the art of writing. The big "publish" button begs you to publish even before...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I recently sold a house in Laguna for $3.5 million. It was on about 2,000 square feet of land, maybe...
WARREN BUFFETT My first call was on a house in East Granby, a nice, old beautiful house. It looked like an awesome ...
BETH MACKIE The idea that kids younger than mine are fighting guerilla wars using guns sold for profit is just m...
NICOLAS CAGE Just the child seeing a parent with a book or a newspaper, or reading a recipe or a book on how to r...
GINGER WILLIFORD My dad was a big Frank Zappa fan, so I remember listening to a lot of Frank Zappa. Girls do not like...
BILL HADER 'Coraline' is Neil Gaiman's book, it sold a lot, it has a big fan base. It was originall...
HENRY SELICK Wake every morning with the same feeling. Live up high and fly on top of the ceiling. I just know th...
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES I didn't originally intend on writing a book. I started writing during the day to feel like I wa...
RACHEL DRATCH There are details within details within details to anchor you in the fact that we are talking about ...
JOE ROHDE I sell my first book to Random House, a memoir of my years as a war photographer, for twice my NBC s...
DEBORAH COPAKEN KOGAN Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Once I'm given an idea for a story I have a million ideas on how it should be illustrated, but I...
BRIAN SELZNICK I like the idea that when a guy comes over to the house, I get to say I wrote the book.
GREG BEHRENDT I came in on the decline. Phil Elliot was in first, he got his book out, he sold thirteen thousand, ...
EDDIE CAMPBELL How did you act when all was not good? Did you rise to the challenge? Did you display grit, resilien...
BILL COURTNEY It's a a damn good day to be alive.
MICHAEL CLIFFORD She pauses several treads from the bottom, listening, waiting; she is again possessed (it seems to b...
MICHAEL CUNNINGHAM Originally, I was against gay marriage because I was opposed to all marriage, being an old-fashioned...
EDMUND WHITE You know, I think I did originally have some sort of idea of maybe a Where Eagles Dare kind of missi...
GARTH ENNIS The following Wednesday, I opted to go with Random House.
LAURA HILLENBRAND The saying sell all your belongings & give to the poor simply means "Redirect your mind to the verit...
DAVID ATTA (A.K.A DAVIED ATTLARS & MR DAIN) Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
ERIC ROTH You're afraid of getting hurt like I'm afraid to die. It doesn't mean I'm not going to live every da...
VI KEELAND Wesley Rush doesn't chase girls, but I'm chasing you.
KODY KEPLINGER I turn and kick with the first one and feel myself being lifted and thrown towards the beach. It's l...
MARK SMITH What the strag will think is that any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough ...
DOUGLAS ADAMS One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit o...
DOUGLAS ADAMS Random lines, Beyond the Darkness: "Playing 'tag, you're it' against a car is a bad idea.
JAIME RUSH If "how to do it" were the answer, it'd be done. It's how you do the "hows" that's most important.
JEFF OLSON There is no one right way.

Just figure out what works for you!
LORII MYERS Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'...
AYN RAND As a former Commander, I gave an oath to defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and dom...
RYAN ZINKE Beautiful girls should know how to defend themselves against the advances of gentlemen.
CASSANDRA CLARE I hate that just because you happen to be good at something,people automatically think that's what m...
AMBER SMITH I was kind of sold on the idea of being one of the building blocks to try and help get the program b...
LANNY SMITH Seeing eye to an eye is a must, especially when there lies a case, or an intent, to meet; even by in...
PRIYAVRAT THAREJA I tried to have several different players defend against Gutierrez, but they all had their hands ful...
GARY BLATE You know, it's hard work to write a book. I can't tell you how many times I really get going on an i...
ELLEN DEGENERES I have made it a rule for a long time, not to part with the copyright of my drawings, for I have bee...
KATE GREENAWAY Judge not lest ye be judged.
THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO MATTHEW She's leaving because she originally only had a year contract. But she was such an amazing addition ...
CALLIE THORNE Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging - weird time signat...
BRIAN ENO It's a fabulous idea because right now the House is not on an equal playing field with the Senate, a...
BARNEY BISHOP You have to attack your own system in order to understand how hackers are attacking your system and ...
AVI RUBIN I don't spend a lot of time asking "WHY?" Instead I focus on what I should do now or how I should re...
JEFF DIXON-THE KEY TO THE KINGDOM How can a fifteen-year old girl defend her love when that love is dismissed by everyone? It’s impo...
COLLEEN HOOVER When I was a lecturer at UC Berkeley, I wrote a book about monsters.
ANNALEE NEWITZ Be true to yourself & your feelings.They will never let you down.
DR ANIL KUMAR SINHA How to get it, I annoy you???
You are not interested???

What's the idea???
DEYTH BANGER Life was life. It happened. You never knew what was going to come at you. Or how you could defend yo...
BARBARA TAYLOR BRADFORD This will not be an instant book, ... This event touches upon so many important issues that it deser...
RANDOM HOUSE Soul of a New Machine.
RANDOM HOUSE My Detachment ... Soul of a New Machine.
RANDOM HOUSE Hard News: Twenty-One Brutal Months at The New York Times and How They Changed the American Media
RANDOM HOUSE an insider's narrative account of the Hurricane Katrina disaster that will locate its roots in the c...
RANDOM HOUSE Our thinking was, if we start creating this stuff digitally, if we have a repository, then we can cr...
RANDOM HOUSE Locked in the Cabinet
RANDOM HOUSE Bellow: A Biography
RANDOM HOUSE The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life,
RANDOM HOUSE It is your character, and your character alone, that will make your life happy or unhappy. That is a...
RANDOM HOUSE No downloading, printing or copying will be permitted.
RANDOM HOUSE [Dale has created some 200 voices for the series, including 96 for the just-released] Harry Potter a...
RANDOM HOUSE [If you're still not convinced about the powers of intuition just take a good look back over your ow...
RANDOM HOUSE There is a real interest and appetite for Katie Price.
RANDOM HOUSE [The house is, in fact, something of a shrine to the passion that has consumed Corrigan's life, from...
RANDOM HOUSE [Book publishing has never had the money or the customer base to justify Hollywood's wall-of-hype ap...
RANDOM HOUSE My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.
TOM WAITS Leaving the game on Monday, I had no idea (who would start this Sunday), but I knew there was an opp...
CHARLIE BATCH I am not a supporter of burning books; but like poison, some books should be kept away from simple m...
BANGAMBIKI HABYARIMANA I have a dream, I have a vision, I have a mission, I have to do something, I will do this at this ti...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Rather than standing defiant screaming to the winds to bring the storm,
be focused, grateful f...
TOM ALTHOUSE Take me to the height where success would seek my help to succeed!
I ARE All I ever did to that apartment was hang fifty yards of yellow theatrical silk across the bedroom w...
JOAN DIDION We can never make proper goodbyes. It was your last ride in a Checker cab and you had no warning. It...
COLSON WHITEHEAD I was in school with Dweezil Zappa, Frank Zappa's son, and we had a band. Only in L.A. could stu...
GREG KURSTIN Oh, Adam’s sons, how cleverly you defend yourselves against all that might do you good!
C.S. LEWIS I don't think the space station is innovative. Going to the moon was innovative because we had n...
PETER DIAMANDIS The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all...
SAMUEL ADAMS Suggestions or comments on this site? Send an email -Frank Zappa.
FRANK ZAPPA The market is still waiting for HSBC results, which will have a big impact on the direction of the m...
ANDREW TO Property shares had a technical rebound, but interest rate concerns will still affect properties unt...
ANDREW TO Bank of China's results were quite good; double-digit growth can be taken as good results for a bank...
ANDREW TO The index tried to challenge 18,000 but failed, so that triggered profit taking. Tokyo's slide also ...
ANDREW TO Trading seems to be focusing on selective counters because investors are cautious amid interest rate...
ANDREW TO We're seeing a minor technical rebound after Wall Street rebounded from two days of losses. The key ...
ANDREW TO Some investors have returned to pick up the stock at bargain prices.
ANDREW TO I think the take-up for the placement is not too good and other property developers may be discourag...
ANDREW TO

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FRANK ZAPPA I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.
FRANK ZAPPA Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something...
FRANK ZAPPA The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, ...
FRANK ZAPPA Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.
FRANK ZAPPA Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
FRANK ZAPPA It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice; there are two other possibilities: on...
FRANK ZAPPA Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't...
FRANK ZAPPA The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
FRANK ZAPPA Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can...
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FRANK ZAPPA The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden w...
FRANK ZAPPA So many books, so little time.
FRANK ZAPPA Without deviation from the norm, progress is not possible.
FRANK ZAPPA If you end up with a boring miserable life because you listened to your mom, your dad, your teacher,...
FRANK ZAPPA A mind is like a parachute. It doesn't work if it is not open.
FRANK ZAPPA Some minds are like concrete, thoroughly mixed and permanently set.
FRANK ZAPPA Out of my mind! Back in five minutes.
FRANK ZAPPA Always follow your heart, but remember to bring your brain along.
FRANK ZAPPA A drug is not bad. A drug is a chemical compound. The problem comes in when people who take drugs tr...
FRANK ZAPPA You can't be a Real Country unless you have a BEER and an airline -- it helps if you have some kind ...
FRANK ZAPPA A drug is neither moral nor immoral -- it's a chemical compound. The compound itself is not a menace...
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FRANK ZAPPA Without deviation progress is not possible.
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FRANK ZAPPA I'm vile and perverted.
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FRANK ZAPPA Jazz isn't dead. It just smells funny.
FRANK ZAPPA Information is not knowledge.
Knowledge is not wisdom.
Wisdom is not truth.
Truth is ...
FRANK ZAPPA Republicans stand for raw, unbridled evil and greed and ignorance smothered in balloons and ribbons.
FRANK ZAPPA A true Zen saying: "Nothing is what I want.
FRANK ZAPPA May your shit come to life and kiss you on the face.
FRANK ZAPPA I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?
FRANK ZAPPA I detest love lyrics. I think one of the causes of bad mental health in the United States is that pe...
FRANK ZAPPA For the record, folks; I never took a shit on stage and the closest I ever came to eating shit anywh...
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