Top 30 Zapruder's Quotes

#1. Would we be tormenting ourselves over the Kennedy assassination today if fifty cameras had been rolling, instead of just poor Abraham Zapruder's?

David Brin

Zapruder's Quotes #1176417
#2. Always in search of the question that might make you ask me one in return

Matthew Zapruder

Zapruder's Quotes #763607
#3. Music and songs have always been a constant part of my life, and still are. My brother Michael, who is a songwriter and composer, is the one who most fully inherited the musical legacy of our family, but I got some part of it - mostly the feel.

Matthew Zapruder

Zapruder's Quotes #1870924
#4. Mimesis has longevity on its side. But Oasis wrote two of the greatest pop songs of all time, each with lyrics that mean less and less the more you think about them. So I'm going to have to go with the Gallagher brothers.

Matthew Zapruder

Zapruder's Quotes #1786718
#5. Miroslav Holub seems to expect his readers to act like scientists, who are curious in every direction, take nothing for granted, and are willing to accept any truth, however unexpected.

Matthew Zapruder

Zapruder's Quotes #1752041
#6. Yes, sir, a patrol car came and took me down to a station where they were trying to develop films, but they hadn't got the facilities to develop colored film.

Abraham Zapruder

Zapruder's Quotes #1739011
#7. The Immaculate Reception became the Zapruder Film of sports.

Stephen J. Dubner

Zapruder's Quotes #1730552
#8. Within a few months, more than 40,000 pieces of mail totaling over $600,000 were given to the Tippit family. The largest single donation came from Abraham Zapruder, who contributed the initial payment of $25,000 he received from Life magazine for his home movie of the assassination.

Dale K. Myers

Zapruder's Quotes #1688661
#9. ...best intentions notwithstanding, no one can control how the media communicates a story and what the public eventually understands.

Alexandra Zapruder

Zapruder's Quotes #1474396
#10. ...it...planted seeds of doubt as to whether we think diabolically enough when we wonder what our government is doing behind our backs.

Alexandra Zapruder

Zapruder's Quotes #1438344
#11. I feel because I am never in my comfort zone I have an advantage.

Matthew Zapruder

Zapruder's Quotes #1291621
#12. Mahmoud Darwish wrote that "extreme clarity is a mystery." That sounds right to me. I don't want anyone hunting for anything ancillary to the true mystery. If that means risking being thought of as glib or dull or banal or stupid or whatever, I guess that will just have to be the way it is.

Matthew Zapruder

Zapruder's Quotes #1232524
#13. So for whatever reason those short lines just felt right to me, in my physical self. They were right for the movement of the poems. Some poems in the book have longer lines.

Matthew Zapruder

Zapruder's Quotes #1212156
#14. Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film.

Abraham Zapruder

Zapruder's Quotes #983228
#15. I was on the abutment.

Abraham Zapruder

Zapruder's Quotes #853511
#16. He leaned about the same way in falling towards Jacqueline, forward, down towards the bottom of the car.

Abraham Zapruder

Zapruder's Quotes #831080
#17. I root through your remains,

looking for the black box. Nothing left

but glossy chunks, a pimp's platinum

tooth clanking inside the urn. I play you


over and over, my beloved conspiracy,

my personal Zapruder film

Erin Belieu

Zapruder's Quotes #728095
#18. I am intrigued and even moved by the idea of being right with the reader in the actuality that she or he is reading a poem. So the titles are an acknowledgment of the reality and value of that act in the world.

Matthew Zapruder

Zapruder's Quotes #584154
#19. Well, I believe that "thinking" is just as real a phenomenon in the world as anything else, and just as worthy of exploration. Maybe even more? So writing about "thought" to me is like writing about a tree or anything else real.

Matthew Zapruder

Zapruder's Quotes #524007
#20. I see sad crushed plastic
everywhere and put
some thoughts composed
of words that do not
belong together
together and feel
a little digital hope.

Matthew Zapruder

Zapruder's Quotes #338800
#21. I don't know if anyone has ever mentioned this, we need to be careful with drugs! They're not just all fun and games! And of course poetry would be immeasurably worse without humor.

Matthew Zapruder

Zapruder's Quotes #333594
#22. It's your living room, it's your life, go nuts. You like Home Improvement? Tape it and go over it like it's the Zapruder film.

Dennis Miller

Zapruder's Quotes #196211
#23. I guess my poems feel to me a bit like they are doing something in relation to experience, i.e. time.

Matthew Zapruder

Zapruder's Quotes #173328
#24. Of course I was drawn to the sun bears, they're fascinating. But so are tigers and lots of other animals at the zoo. Probably a big part of the reason I felt so connected to them was because of their name: SUN BEAR.

Matthew Zapruder

Zapruder's Quotes #128156
#25. It's a kind of de-familiarization in relation to the song: if she were to sing absolutely straight, right on the beat, because of the richness and intensity of her instrument - her voice - I think it could actually feel a little inhuman, too good somehow, separate from our concerns.

Matthew Zapruder

Zapruder's Quotes #104878
#26. I couldn't tell if any frames were removed. Seen as a whole it shows that I have seen. Seeing you have 18 frames a second you can take out one or two and I couldn't tell.

Abraham Zapruder

Zapruder's Quotes #97381
#27. Then I heard another shot which hit him right in the head, over here, and his head practically opened up and a lot of blood and many more things came out.

Abraham Zapruder

Zapruder's Quotes #97245
#28. I got off the abutment and walked towards my office.

Abraham Zapruder

Zapruder's Quotes #73127
#29. Somewhere back a whiskey or so ago I wrote that thinking was a real thing in the world, just like anything else. I mean that very literally, materially. And it's true about poems, too.

Matthew Zapruder

Zapruder's Quotes #34611
#30. If you want to know what political extremism can lead to, look at the Zapruder film. Take particular note of frame 313, where Kennedy's head explodes.

Stephen King

Zapruder's Quotes #34043

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