W.D. Frank Quotes

We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.

The heart is the chief feature of a functioning mind.

Whether you're trying to excel in athletics or in any other field, always practice. Look, listen, learn - and practice, practice, practice. There is no substitute for work, no shortcut to the top.

Human beings can be beautiful. If they are not beautiful it is entirely their own fault. It is what they do to themselves that makes them ugly.

People are not as one-dimensional as the stories about them.

This is a dream come true. I have wanted to tour with Green Day since I was 15.

I find that government can be a kind of gangsterism and is in Russia. And is likely to be in America if we don't take care of ourselves pretty carefully.

Perfection's awesome... So I strive for it every day.

Have you heard about the Irishman who reversed into a car boot sale and sold the engine?

So, Arsenal have signed Arsene Wenger because his name sounds a bit like the club. How long before Man Utd sign Stefan Kuntz?

The room within is the great fact about the building.

Whether a thought is spoken or not it is a real thing and has powers of reality.

It has been said that a bride's attitude towards her betrothed can be summed up in three words: Aisle. Alter. Hymn.

I have a split - of my real home-life side that's real-life, and then the creative side that is not necessarily real-life, but it intersects my real-life so much.

I want to make exalted art. A successful image has pictorial lift. I am looking for whatever is up there

I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.

Warned by the disaster of the last great war, the statesmen of all nations have been taking measures to prevent the return of another such calamity.

The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in.

Children are naive-they trust everyone. School is bad enough, but, if you put a child anywhere in the vicinity of a church, you're asking for trouble.

Here lies a toppled god. His fall was not a small one. We did but build his pedestal, A narrow and a tall one.

A liberal is a conservative who hasn't been mugged yet.

There is probably no more terrible instant of enlightenment than the one in which you discover your father is a man - with human flesh.

Believe it or not, there are places in the world where music is important. There are places in the world where all the arts are a matter of national pride.

Youth is not an age thing. It's a quality. Once you've had it, you never lose it.

The messenger is not as important as the message.

Why can't people live with each other in peace? Why must everything be destroyed? Why must people go hungry while surplus food elsewhere in the world rots away? Oh why must people be so crazy?

If you don't believe in what you're selling, neither will your prospect.

Keep scribbling! Something will happen.

Good or bad, the one thing I can say about my art is, if I can quote Sinatra, I did it my way.

Order (self-organizat ion): Set aside time to plan how you will spend your time. Think about what’s most important. Then do those things first.

If you believe in unlimited quality and act in all your business dealings with total integrity, the rest will take care of itself.

The short-cut to popularity is to lend everyone your ears, instead of giving them your tongue

Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?

Why do otherwise sane, competent, strong men, men who can wrestle bears or raid corporations, shrink away in horror at the thought of washing a dish or changing a diaper?

But I think one of the reasons I tend to stay in the water most of the time is I distrust the comfort.

Sin is the Monster we love to deny. It is crouching at the door and it wants you, but you must overcome it.

What we can't say we can't say, and we can't whistle it either.

In the world of comic books, "troublemaker" means someone who has some sense of dignity.

You can't escape the puking sphinx.

I believe that everything you've said is not even wrong.

Conducting" is when you draw "designs" in the nowhere-with a stick, or with your hands-which are interpreted as "instructional messages" by guys wearing bow ties who wish they were fishing.

Promises to get beyond partisanship are the most perfunctory sort of campaign rhetoric, almost as empty as the partisanship itself.

The sport [football] is simply more and more identified with violence, both in its inherent nature and in its savage personnel... [The National Football League] now needs a guardian, not a CEO.

So much of life, so much of work, is luck.

Yes, letter writing is antiquated - though there remain a few renegades who still so treasure the luxury of contemplating their lives in letters that they would rather write than call.

Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.

A compelling story, even if factually inaccurate, can be more emotionally compelling than a dry recitation of the truth.

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

Knowledge is more a matter of learning than of the exercise of absolute judgment. Learning requires time, and in time the situation dealt with, as well as the learner, undergoes change.

The Big Hurt describes me perfectly-not as a person, but as a player. It's what I do to a baseball.