Americans want beauties, not me. I’m not the Parisian bombshell they expected. Can you see me as a chorus girl? Where’s my feather up the ass? They think I’m sad, they’re dumb. I don’t connect to them
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Americans want beauties, not me. I’m not the Parisian bombshell they expected. Can you see me as a chorus girl? Where’s my feather up the ass? They think I’m sad, they’re dumb. I don’t connect to them
I have sinned against my brother the ass.
For most people, self-awareness and self-pity blossom simultaneously in early adolescence. It's about that time that we start viewing the world as something other than a whoop-de-doo playground, we start to experience personally how threatening it can be, how cruel and unjust. At the very moment when we become, for the first time, both introspective and socially conscientious, we receive the bad news that the world, by and large, doesn't give a rat's ass.
There's a tremendous bias against taking risks. Everyone is trying to optimize their ass-covering.
Whether it’s food or women, the ones on front street are supermodels. Big hair, big tits, big trouble, but the one you come home to is probably something like cavatelli and red sauce. She’s not screaming for attention because she knows she’s good enough even if your dumb ass hasn’t figured it out yet.
If it's illegal to rock and roll, throw my ass in jail!
All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.
If I'm an ass, I should say so. If I don't, somebody else will. If I say it first, that disarms them.
The truth is, anybody that becomes famous is an ass for a year and a half. You've got to give them a year and a half, two years. They are getting so much smoke blown, and their whole world gets so turned upside down, their responses become distorted. I give everybody a year or two to pull it together because, when it first happens, I know how it is.
I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.
The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad.
I'm optimistic. I see no longer people accepting fuzzy thinking in the world. The change is not that people aren't still saying under-informed things. The change is that if you're in power and you say something under-informed, there are people out there with a voice who will take you to task for having done so
Most chick-singers say "If you hurt me, I'll die"... I say, if you hurt me, I'll kick your ass.
You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.
Being a true bad ass has no weight or gender requirement - just 100% commitment to greatness.
Look, we're all the same; a man is a fourteen-room house - in the bedroom he's asleep with his intelligent wife, in the living-room he's rolling around with some bare ass girl, in the library he's paying his taxes, in the yard he's raising tomatoes and in the cellar he's making a bomb to blow it all up.
ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear.
Don't be afraid of making an ass of yourself. I do it all the time and look what I got.
I am such a tender ass, if my hair do but tickle me, I must scratch.
Our countrymen have all the folly of the ass and all the passiveness of the sheep.
In my opinion, the best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are. Good mood, bad mood, ugly, pretty, handsome, what have you, the right person will still think the sun shines out your ass. That's the kind of person that's worth sticking with.
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