Frederic Raphael Quotes

#1. Mass communication communicates massively: its language lacks precise articulation and avoids demanding terms; it argues for the kind of behavior in life which will make a "good program": ethic equals showbiz.

Frederic Raphael

#2. The things I write about are the things that I am passionate about, interested in, and fighting for in my life.

Kristin Armstrong

#3. The rebel is back. It feels good - different, somehow - but good. It is sometimes true that a girl can become someone else with the simplest of changes.

Katherine Owen

#4. The great networks are there to prove that ideas can be canned like spaghetti. If everything ends up by tasting like everything else, is that not the evidence that it has been properly cooked?

Frederic Raphael

#5. Great restaurants are, of course, nothing but mouth-brothels. There is no point in going to them if one intends to keep one's belt buckled.

Frederic Raphael

#6. One can watch hours and hours of TV without actually losing interest, but, as with Chinese food, one is rarely left with much residue of nourishment.

Frederic Raphael

#7. With all my heart, and all my soul, I will love you till the winds don't blow. Until the oceans turn to stone, my love is yours and yours alone. My love is forever, until forever's gone.

Kenny Rogers

#8. Avoid the world, it's just a lot of dust and drag and means nothing in the end.

Jack Kerouac

#9. Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.

Ryan Lochte

#10. Words, isolated in the velvet of radio, took on a jeweled particularity. Television has quite the opposite effect: words are drowned in the visual soup in which they are obliged to be served.

Frederic Raphael

#11. And then he'd rub his cheeks with cold cream because he'd just shaved and the tears stung.

Thomas Mann

#12. As Oscar Wilde should have said, when bad ideas have nowhere else to go, they emigrate to America and become university courses.

Frederic Raphael

#13. I could do without sex. Don't really like it that much. If I could just feel complete.

Frederic Raphael

#14. Mind is the absence of meditation. The moment meditation arises in you, mind is found nowhere.

Rajneesh

#15. I feel myself alien from everyone; that is my kind of Jewishness.

Frederic Raphael

#16. The theater is a great equalizer: it is the only place where the poor can look down on the rich.

Will Rogers

#17. We thought philosophy ought to be patient and unravel people's mental blocks. Trouble with doing that is, once you've unravelled them, their heads fall off.

Frederic Raphael

#18. Vichy proves one thing: if you don't want to know how low your fellow citizens can fall, and crawl, don't lose a war.

Frederic Raphael

#19. Your idea of fidelity is not having more than one man in bed at the same time.

Frederic Raphael

#20. At last, after innumerable glamorous and frightful years, mankind approaches a war which is totally predictable from beginning to end.

Frederic Raphael

#21. Talk isn't work. Work is when you have pages in the evening that you didn't have in the morning.

Frederic Raphael

#22. After all, nothing nurtures a friendship bond more than the ability to consistently bitch about someone else!

Pawan Mishra

#23. You can always become better.

Tiger Woods

#24. Truth may be stranger than fiction, but fiction is truer.

Frederic Raphael

#25. The television critic, whatever his pretensions, does not labour in the same vineyard as those he criticizes; his grapes are all sour.

Frederic Raphael

#26. People resent articulacy, as if articulacy were a form of vice.

Frederic Raphael

#27. How is your writing going, Michael?"
"Still from the top of the page on down, Mrs. Raglan.

Frederic Raphael

#28. The party of God and the party of Literature have more in common than either will admit their texts may conflict, but their bigotries coincide. Both insist on being the sole custodians of the true word and its only interpreters.

Frederic Raphael

#29. Music is a reflection of who you are, and if those things that you mentioned are what your music is all about, then I guess that's who you are.

Lil' Wayne

#30. I watched Reagan turn around the country by lowering taxes and controlling spending, and I'm applying the same principles.

Luis Fortuno