W.D. Frank Quotes

Two things are universal: Hydrogen and stupidity

The undeserving maintain power by promoting hysteria.

One of my greatest influences is the Italian artist Gian Lorenzo Bernini.

Tighten my headband for an extra rush.

Unless one can think wisely it is better to remain a dummy.

As long as this exists, this sunshine and this cloudless sky, and as long as I can enjoy it, how can I be sad?

That's where you have to look for your inspiration. Don't separate the rest of your life - who you are, what you love - from your work.

Sympathy, Love, Fortune... We all have these qualities but still tend to not use them!

As a matter of fact, we are none of us above criticism; so let us bear with each other's faults.

Fathering makes a man, whatever his standing in the eyes of the world, feel strong and good and important, just as he makes his child feel loved and valued.

Ram it up your poop chute.

Massive inequality, we have learned, isn't the best way to run an economy after all. And when you think about it, it's also profoundly ugly.

If you pick up a guitar and it says, 'take me, I'm yours,' then that's the one for you

Gotham City. Clean shafts of concrete and snowy rooftops. The work of men who died generations ago. From here, it looks like an achievement. From here, you can't see the enemy.

We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.

Watch your character; it becomes your destiny.

If I lose the ball, I lose it trying to do the right thing. That's the way it is.

I say, Billy, what’s the use in playing croquet when you’re doomed? He says, Frankie, what’s the use of not playing croquet when you’re doomed?

[The Moon] was a sobering sight, but it didn't have the impact on me, at least, as the view of the Earth did.

Art is making something out of nothing and selling it.

The weak fall, but the strong will remain and never go under!

Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share power with those who will be affected by those decisions.

Oh! kangaroos, sequins, chocolate sodas! / You really are beautiful! Pearls, / harmonicas, jujubes, aspirins!

Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Don't worry about getting perfect, just keep getting better.

I was in the Far East and I went into a restaurant and I ordered octopus and the waiter said: "It takes four hours." I asked why and he said: "It keeps turning off the gas."

Mystification is the psychiatrist's defense against the danger of being found out.

It is a callous age; we have seen so many marvels that we are ashamed to marvel more; the seven wonders of the world have become seven thousand wonders.

Democracy is the opposite of totalitarianism, communism, fascism, or mobocracy.

Modern music is people who can't think signing artists who can't write songs to make records for people who can't hear.

To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.

Architecture is essentially Human; it is the Human spirit manifesting itself. For when a Man builds, there, you've got him; you know exactly what, who and how that Man is.

Most parents don’t know really their children.

The early American knew that freedom was nothing more than the absence of external restraint on behavior; the government could not give you freedom, it could only take it away.

There cannot be a good tax nor a just one; every tax rests its case on compulsion.

If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not elected to be lackeys of the federal bureaucracy.

Cops today are nothing but an armed tax collector

It is so shocking to find out how many people do not believe that they can learn, and how many more believe learning to be difficult.

Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

The function of science fiction is not always to predict the future but sometimes to prevent it.

When a wise man does not understand, he says: "I do not understand." The fool and the uncultured are ashamed of their ignorance. They remain silent when a question could bring them wisdom.

Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm honest.

This unrequited love, to me it's nothing but a one-man cult/And cyanide in my styrofoam cup

Sometimes the solitary voice can be the best one.

Staying alive is nice, but you can’t do that forever. It’s how you live the life you have while you have it.

I think at its best, sport does bring us together.

I don't have any secrets I need kept any more.

Why do the Yankees always win? The other team can't stop looking at the pinstripes.

I think one of the most immoral things is college football and basketball, where everybody is making money except the players.

The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself.