W.D. Frank Quotes

If it sells, it's art.

I don't think of all the misery but of the beauty that still remains.

An idea is salvation by imagination.

The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his client to plant vines - so they should go as far as possible from home to build their first buildings.

It takes many, many failures to reach success.

I shall remember the look in Margot's eyes all my life.

If I had as many love affairs as I've been given credit for, I'd be in a jar at the Harvard Medical School.

Scientists and artists are the world's noticers. Their job is simply to notice what other people cannot.

Things own you. That's the trouble with capitalism. Things own you. With communism and fascism - ideas own you. One idea and you can't have any other.

I'll miss you most of all scarecrow.

Architecture is for the young. If our teenagers don't get architecture - if they are not inspired, (then) we won't have the architecture that we must have if this country is going to be beautiful.

We pretend to be a free society, and we pretend to be an adult society, but if you look at the facts, our news is just as contrived, and controlled as Pravda!

Live with the objective of being happy.

In a perfect world, you and I probably wouldn't exist, so let's not hope for one.

A man without hope is a man without fear.

Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking. - Tin Man

You can spend your whole life trying to be popular, but at the end of the day, the size of the crowd at your funeral will be largely dictated by the weather.

Listening to God is far more important than giving Him your ideas.

Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.

Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxed. Eventually it passes and the flow returns. It's part of racing.

Marriage, like a submarine, is only safe if you get all the way inside.

The ultimate creative thinking technique is to think like God. If you're an atheist, pretend how God would do it.

I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it.

Great literature transcends its native land, but none that I know of ignores its soil.

We must pray for more prayer, for it is the world's mightiest healing force.

The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.

Hills are speedwork in disguise.

A man's conscience, like a warning line on the highway, tells him what he shouldn't do - but it does not keep him from doing it.

I no longer worry about being a brilliant conversationalist. I simply try to be a good listener. I notice that people who do that are usually welcome wherever they go

When you get to political machines that can control a state, then you're really into organized crime - almost. You're fighting a political mafia.

[Dean Martin] is an absolute, unqualified drunk. And if we ever develop an Olympic drinking team, he's gonna be the coach... Dean Martin has been stoned more often than the United States embassies.

Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read.

An ordinary mistake is one that leads to a dead end, while a profound mistake is one that leads to progress. Anyone can make an ordinary mistake, but it takes a genius to make a profound mistake.

Really I don't know anything other than Jersey. I like the dirtiness of it. Now I'm getting to see the world, and it's great, but it's not better than Jersey.

My greatest teacher was not a vocal coach, not the work of other singers, but the way Tommy Dorsey breathed and phrased on the trombone.

The whole can be greater than the sum of it's parts, that we all have something to put in the pie to make it better, and that the collaborative interaction works.

The measure of a man's culture is the measure of his appreciation. We are ourselves what we appreciate and no more.

I knew Jimi (Hendrix) and I think that the best thing you could say about Jimi was: there was a person who shouldn't use drugs.

And always embrace things, people earth sky stars, as I do, freely and with the appropriate sense of space.

Grace / to be born and live as variously as possible

Just a reminder, what other people think of you is none of your business.

Science is moving closer to weaponry, and Art is moving closer to commercialism. And never the twain shall meet.

If we took a moment of silence for each person lost to abortion, we would be silent for over 100 years.

I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.

It's nice to come into a town and be referred to as the manager of the Cleveland Indians instead of as the first black manager.

A father is a man who expects his son to be as good a man as he meant to be.

Every child has to raise itself.

About six years ago my family was affected by multiple sclerosis.

I can't stress the importance of working hard enough, work on all aspects of your game. If you does that and you have the ability, you'll come through.