Quote

I drove a cab. But all the girls I knew when I was young who had to work - there were rich girls - but the ones who had to work were waitresses. Because you could always get shifts in a restaurant.

Fran Lebowitz

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Fran Lebowitz
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: October 27
Author
Humorist
Journalist
Orator
Writer
Morristown
NJ
Frances Ann Lebowitz
Robert Paine Cook
Girl
Waitress
Young
Drove
Work
Restaurant
Always
Restaurants
Girls
Ones
Waitresses
Knew
Cab
Rich
Shifts

More quotes by Fran Lebowitz

Image
I write so slowly, I could write with my own blood and not hurt myself.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I always liked people who are older. Of course, every year it gets harder to find them.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I'm a horrible girlfriend. I always was. I'm great at the beginning, because I can be very romantic.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
A woman's quest in life should be to find the perfect apartment. And I have found the perfect apartment. The perfect apartment is the first floor of the Metropolitan Museum. With a sofa.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
If you want to get ahead in this world get a lawyer -- not a book.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Ask your child what he wants for dinner only if he's buying.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
My desire to curtail undue freedom of speech extends only to such public areas as restaurants, airports, streets, hotel lobbies, parks, and department stores. Verbal exchanges between consenting adults in private are as of little interest to me as they probably are to them.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
What people don't know is: Clothes don't really fit you unless they're made for you. Especially when you wear men's clothes, like I do. American women think that clothes fit them if they can fit into them. But that's not at all what fit means.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Contrary to popular opinion, the hustle is not a new dance step - it is an old business procedure.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I write a sentence a thousand times, changing it all the time to look at it in different ways.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
The first people who died of AIDS were artists. They were the most interesting people.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I'm very lazy, I hate to work.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
When I'm supposed to be writing I clean my apartment, take my clothes to the laundry, get organized, make lists, do the dishes. I would never do a dish unless I had to write.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
I think writing for me has always been a matter of fear. Writing is fear and not writing is fear. I am afraid of writing and then I'm afraid of not writing.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
There are some great writers who are great talkers, but there are more great writers who are not great talkers. People seem to think there is some connection between talking and writing, but I love to talk and if there were some connection between the two of them I would be the most prolific writer in the history of the world.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
[On not reading newspapers:] If something important happens, your mother calls you.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
if you live in New York and you have a guest room, you have guests. So I think it's best not to have a guest room.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
Until I was about 7, I thought books were just there, like trees. When I learned that people actually wrote them, I wanted to, too, because all children aspire to inhuman feats like flying. Most people grow up to realize they can't fly. Writers are people who don't grow up to realize they can't be God.
Fran Lebowitz
Image
As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
Fran Lebowitz