“How do you know if your child is a writer? Your obstetrician holds his stethoscope to your abdomen and only hears excuses.”
Reported in Ginai Bellafante, " Opinions You Won’t Find on Twitter: Fran Lebowitz Talks http://tv.nytimes.com/2010/11/22/arts/television/22lebowitz.html?pagewanted=2, The New York Times (November 21, 2010).
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Original: (it) È Natale ogni volta che sorridi a un bimbo, tenendogli la mano. È Natale ogni volta che riconosci i tuoi limiti, i tuoi errori. È Natale ogni volta che rimani in silenzio per ascoltare l'altro. È Natale ogni volta che doni con amore la tua dolcezza. È Natale ogni volta che ascolti la canzone del cuore.
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“How do you hold a moonbeam in your hand? How do you keep a wave upon the sand?”
These words from The Sound of Music bring out the elusive nature of chaos. In life, most things cannot be captured for long. It is like trying to encapsulate time itself.
Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. vii
“This is how you should hold your palette.”
Quote of Mauve, teaching Vincent van Gogh, 1881 in The Hague; as cited by Vincent van Gogh in his letter to brother Theo http://vangoghletters.org/vg/letters/let193/letter.html, from Etten, c. 23 December 1881]
1880's
Napoleon the Little (1852), Book V, IX
Napoleon the Little (1852)
“Do not elicit your child's political opinions. He doesn't know any more than you do.”
" Parental Guidance https://books.google.com/books?id=xCV8OXwBuNcC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22fran+lebowitz%22+%22parental+guidance%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiX3rO2xPvPAhXl1IMKHbrqAqAQ6AEIKjAC#v=onepage&q=%22Parental%20Guidance%20s%22&f=false".
Social Studies (1981)
“Your only responsibility as a writer is to be true to the story that has chosen you as its writer.”