Zant Quotes

#1. Be a simple kind of man.

Ronnie Van Zant

#2. I am not callow enough to suppose that books are not powerful
on the contrary, a book is the most delicious of paradoxes, an inert collection of symbols which are capable of changing the universe when once the cover is opened.

Lyndsay Faye

#3. I just swung for the fence. That's my whole philosophy in life.

Ronnie Van Zant

#4. My father gave me a bat for Christmas. The first time I tried to play with it, it flew away.

Rodney Dangerfield

#5. If prisons, freight trains, swamps, and gators don't get ya to write songs, man, y'ain't got no business writin' songs.

Ronnie Van Zant

#6. Sit and spin 'til you rot on the cosmic utensil.

Frank Zappa

#7. Mirroring the body language of the interviewers may be a way of increasing rapport and making them feel more receptive towards you.

Glen Wilson

#8. He can't decide whether to leave his visor half open or half closed.

Murray Walker

#9. One of the first times I came to New York was for a modeling and talent competition, IMTA, which I won. I came with a group, like a modeling school from Fresno.

Christopher Gorham

#10. Find the Grace in the things you can't change, and help somebody if you can.

Van Zant

#11. I don't understand this phrase 'I've paid my dues.' We didn't have any money and lived on peanut butter and jelly, and I loved it. I don't regret any of it. We never expected to make it this far, but we worked hard to get here.

Ronnie Van Zant

#12. What song is it you want to hear?

Ronnie Van Zant

#13. An investor should act as though he had a lifetime decision card with just twenty punches on it.

Warren Buffett

#14. Television bosses should stop insulting the public's intelligence by assuming we are all idiots.

Jeremy Paxman

#15. There are five kids in my family and I'm the only one who didn't get a diploma. All the kids got their diplomas hanging in my father's room and I got my gold records. I'd say he was more proud of the diplomas.

Ronnie Van Zant

#16. If it's your time to go, it's your time to go.

Ronnie Van Zant

#17. Hunter he had these big tins of crushed pineapple that he'd gotten from the army,' Garcia said, 'and i had this glove compartment full of plastic spoons, and we had this little cooperative scene, eating this crushed pineapple day after day and sleeping in the cars and walking around.

Blair Jackson