Connie Francis Quotes

#1. Insider can be more ludicrous. How did I ever end up [as one]? Carsick [Waters's book on hitchhiking] was on the New York Times best-seller list for five weeks. [One of the characters was] a singing asshole that does a duet with Connie Francis! Times have changed. That's mainstream, in a weird way.

John Waters

#2. The script [for the movie based on the life of singer Connie Francis
"Who's Sorry Now?"] is finished and is in the hands of several artists to see if somebody wants to film at the start of [2006].

Gloria Estefan

#3. I can remember in the early 60s that there were a couple of really dynamic women performers at the time - Brenda Lee, there was Connie Francis.

Lesley Gore

#4. I'm the Connie Francis of rock 'n' roll.

Elton John

#5. I just remembered songs my grandmother taught me, and songs that I learned for the recordings. But, then I learned to speak Italian. When I was there, I hired a professor who stayed with me 24 hours a day. She wouldn't let me speak a word of English.

Connie Francis

#6. A girl can't sing rock & roll too well. It's basically too savage.

Connie Francis

#7. The mayor has got to work closely with a wide variety of people, his city council, state legislature, governor, business community, labor community, president and the congress in order to be able to do this.

Marc Morial

#8. Music is still part of my life, but I hate the idea of people coming to see me play the guitar because they've seen me in movies. You want people who are listening to be only interested in the music.

Johnny Depp

#9. We cannot infer from prosperity that God is pleased with us, nor can we infer from adversity that he is displeased with us.

Wilson Benton

#10. I was never encouraged to do it and I played the accordion, which I hated. I wish I had taken piano because I definitely would have written more songs of my own, but I didn't.

Connie Francis

#11. There wasn't much around. After the shows, we would go to an Italian restaurant that a friend of ours owned and so I didn't get a chance to see much. Actually, that holds true of most places I've been.

Connie Francis

#12. My heart Has a Mind of Its Own.

Connie Francis

#13. There are some cities that I did take time out to study, 'cause I love history and one of them was Boston, and of course Rome and all of those places like that. But, in Syracuse or Rochester, or any of those places, no.

Connie Francis

#14. In the crowd of a million people I'll find my valentine, and then I'll climb the highest steeple and tell the world he's mine.

Connie Francis

#15. Lipstick on your collar said you were untrue. Bet your bottom dollar, you and I are through.

Connie Francis

#16. I'm hoping Lor San Tekka knows where to find my brother, Poe. And Luke Skywalker may be the only hope we have left.

Greg Rucka

#17. The AIDS epidemic, rather than being a scourge, is a welcome development in the inevitable reduction of human population ... If it didn't exist, radical environmentalists would have to invent it.

David Foreman

#18. The mother's love is at first an absorbing delight, blunting all other sensibilities; it is an expansion of the animal existence.

George Eliot

#19. Amid the turmoil and tumult of battle, there may be seeming disorder and yet no real disorder at all.

Sun Tzu

#20. Rhythms appear in the ways flowers grow, water flows, the earth moves around the sun, the moon moves through their dreams, and thoughts travel within their minds.

Blue Balliett

#21. If it works, it's out of date.

David Bowie

#22. Meetings are a symptom of bad organization. The fewer meetings the better.

Peter Drucker

#23. There's no exception to the rule, yes, everybody's somebody's fool.

Connie Francis

#24. If you feel like you want to die, it's time to sit down and make a list of all the things you haven't done yet.

Deacon Jones

#25. There must be some connection between the general nullity of Christie's prose and the tendency of her detectives to take Jewishness as a symptom of crime.

Christopher Hitchens

#26. So to get back to being intimidated, yes, you get intimidated when you're on the runway with Naomi Campbell, who is the best runway model in the world.

Heidi Klum

#27. Auditioning for television shows - to find a guy who has a lot of experience as a laborer is a bit of an anomaly. We do exist.I know several other actors who have made their living, instead of a waitress job, framing houses or blacktopping roads.

Nick Offerman