Ian Shoales famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I don't like people who speak French in public places. This includes the French.
-- Ian Shoales

#People #Speak
Americans will buy anything, as long as it doesn't cross the thin line between cute and demonic.
-- Ian Shoales

#Cute #Long #Lines
Everybody's excited about the new service economy, even though there is no actual service as near as I can tell.
-- Ian Shoales

#Excited #Economy
Advice to rock gods: drugwise, stick to Ibuprofen, decaf lattes, and pale Pilsners ... If your stomach is not a flat slab, please leave your shirt on while performing ... If your girlfriend asks you to choose between her and your music, sell your instruments immediately - especially if you're a drummer ... Finally, go easy on the supermodels, don't forget to tune, and remember: a tiny bit of dry ice and lasers goes a long way. Ditto with tattoos.
-- Ian Shoales

#Tattoo #Girlfriend #Rocks
L.A.: where there's never weather, and walking is a crime. L.A.: where the streetlights and palm trees go on forever, where darkness never comes, like a deal that never goes down, a meeting that's never taken. The City of Angels: where every cockroach has a screenplay and even the winos wear roller skates. It's that kind of town.
-- Ian Shoales

#Taken #Angel #Cities
Never ask a woman why she's angry at you. She will either get angrier at you for not knowing, or she'll tell you. Both ways, you lose.
-- Ian Shoales

#Anger #Knowing #Way
I read a column by George Will that SCARFACE should be rated X because parents were taking their children to see it. So what? Why should the motion-picture industry be responsible for our morality? Dad says to Mom, `SCARFACE is in town.' `What's it about?' `Human scum who kill each other over cocaine deals.' `Sounds great! Let's take the kids!'
-- Ian Shoales

#Mom #Children #Dad
Favorite color: I hate colors.
-- Ian Shoales

#Hate #Color #I Hate
Why are we importing all these highbrow plays like `Amadeus'? I could have told you Mozart was a jerk for nothing.
-- Ian Shoales

#Play #Jerk #Amadeus
Men want to put their signature at the bottom; women don't want to finish that letter.
-- Ian Shoales

#Women #Signatures #Letters
I know what love is: Tracy and Hepburn, Bogart and Bacall, Romeo and Juliet, Jackie and John and Marilyn...
-- Ian Shoales

#Love #Juliet #Bogart
Football players, like prostitutes, are in the business of ruining their bodies for the pleasure of strangers.
-- Ian Shoales

#Football #Player #Body
They don't produce anything. All they do is guide you through the labyrinth of the legal system that they created - and they keep changing it just in case you start to catch on.
-- Ian Shoales

#Labyrinth #Legal System #Ethics
Sigmund Freud was a half baked Viennese quack. Our literature, culture, and the films of Woody Allen would be better today if Freud had never written a word.
-- Ian Shoales

#Movie #Today #Would Be

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