W.D. Frank Quotes

In addition to the artistic influences, I am influenced by my current private life, my feelings about it and my energy level and state of health.

Whatever the aspect, I've tried to provide clear witness to what I've found, to resonate well enough with the harmonics of the place that the tuning can be felt in the pictures.

Dear dad, you always told me that an honest man has nothing to fear, so I'm trying my best not to be afraid.

Taxation is nothing but organized robbery, and there the subject should be dropped.

Should; shouldn't; ought; oughtn't—the enemies of contentment.

I think my greatest ambition in life is to pass on to others what I know.

A spoonful of humor makes the message go down easier.

The idea of recognizing your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

Sociology isthescience of talk, and there is onlyone law in sociology. Bad talk drives out good.

Card players have a saying: "It's all right to play if you keep your eyes on the deck" - which is another way of saving, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty."

I know that we sin but I do believe we try, we all try.

Happy people learn that happiness, like sweat, is a by-product of activity.

I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than not. I'm very fond of women; I admire them. But, like all men, I don't understand them.

It is Billie Holiday who was, and still remains, the greatest single musical influence on me.

People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.

I am what a romantic movie is to a profound thinker - a mere diversion, a comic interlude, something that is soon forgotten.

Whoever thinks war allows for lasting victories should take a look at European history books and learn their lesson.

She lives in Mojave in a Winnebago. His name is Bobby, he looks like a potato.

Germany is too big to sit on the sidelines on world issues. Military force is not the ultima ratio it used to be, but it can be used, with care.

You remember the finals you lose as much as the ones you win.

Producing satire is kind of hopeless because of the literacy rate of the American public.

I hid myself within myself ... and quietly wrote down all my joys, sorrows and contempt in my diary.

Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.

I'm like everyone else: I want to play every game, but it's not possible.

If you're going to be a man that reads the papers and takes everything as gospel truth, that's a sign of who you are, that isn't a sign of the reality.

I prefer honest arrogance to hypocritical modesty.

Christianity is not a mere religion but an experimentally testable science.

The Very Big Stupid is a thing which breeds by eating The Future. Have you seen it? It sometimes disguises itself as a good-looking quarterly bottom line, derived by closing the R&D department.

There is a vital lesson to be learned here, a Truth our society must not lose sight of, and that is the sanctity of every human life and the dignity of every individual.

When religion and politics ride in the same cart, the whirlwind follows.

down the sidewalk where laborers feed their dirty glistening torsos sandwiches and Coca-Cola, with yellow helmets on. They protect them from falling bricks, I guess.

I have been to lots of parties and acted perfectly disgraceful but I never actually collapsed oh Lana Turner we love you get up

Increasing the power of the state in response to the Soviet menace would not defeat socialism in Russia but bring it to the United States.

I love all those girls the same as they love me. I get thousands of letters a week from girls who love me.... Every time I sing a song, I make love to them. I'm a boudoir singer.

When they dumped all these people out of the insane asylums they didn't all go sleep in the street. Some of them moved into suburbia, and started writing postcards to the FCC.

As much as we pretend otherwise, we want what's comfortable, and we're afraid of the different. We're afraid of change.

I live in a crazy time.

Faith on a full stomach may be simply contentment but if you have it when you're hungry, it's genuine.

You must work and should not be lazy if you want to be happy.

Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.

The teachers who get "burned out" are not the ones who are constantly learning, which can be exhilarating, but those who feel they must stay in control and ahead of the students at all times.

There are two things that people [are surrounded by and] avoid trying to understand. One is music, and the other is electricity.

What is the point of singing wonderful lyrics if the audience can't understand what is being said or heard?

Intervals and other types of speed work are essential to improve running speed.

You've got to like the people you work with.

We're physiologically wired differently.

My wife went into the butchers and said: "You've a sheep's head in your window." The butcher said: "That's a mirror."

You can suffocate a thought by expressing it with too many words.

I promised a lot of people I'd slow down when I turned 80.

It's a despicable thing to share your personal inner torment for money.