W.D. Frank Quotes

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

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

A spoonful of humor makes the message go down easier.

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

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

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

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.

What are Americans still buying? Big Macs,Campbell's soup,Hershey's chocolate and Spam--the four food groups of the apocalypse.

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?

Stuff up the cracks, turn on the gas, I'm gonna take my life.

If it keeps up, man will atrophy all his limbs but the push-button finger.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

He who controls the spice controls the universe.

Every improvement in communication makes the bore more terrible.

Small souls who seek power over others first destroy the faith those others might have in themselves.

What has mood to do with it? You fight when the necessity arises—no matter the mood! Mood's a thing for cattle or making love or playing the baliset. It's not for fighting.

Irreverence is a most necessary ingredient of religion. Not to speak of its importance in philosophy. Irreverence is the only way left to us for testing our universe.

Consider for a moment any beauty in the name Ralph.

My trainer, George Francis, used to train a lot of African boxers. They're hungry guys, man. They've got no trainers, got nothing. They're so hungry to do boxing, to make some money.

I'm a do-gooder liberal.

God made man in his own image, and man returned the favour.

I don't know whose box I'm in, and I don't really care.

The idealism [in architecture] is in the formal arrangement, the relationship to the city, the use of materials that are available to me. That's where I say our powers are limited.

A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library.

Reading with my children is incredibly important to me and a wonderful way to spend time together as a family, exploring magical worlds through books and stories.

If we walk far enough," says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace.

But in order to be the thing you want to be, you have to work like a dog at the thing you love.

In a way, I've thrived on the competition, perhaps it has made a better player because of it.

But I firmly believe that you can't be emotionally free until you are emotionally committed.

I'm not the kind of player to see out my time and sit with my bum on the bench too much. I want to be involved. That's my character.

But when you actually go in the ring, it's a very lonely and scary place. It's just you and the other guy.

Out on a 30 day tour, you got nothing, but groupies and promoters to love you.

The outcome of the city will depend on the race between the automobile and the elevator, and anyone who bets on the elevator is crazy.

Get the habit of analysis - analysis will in time enable synthesis to become your habit of mind.

A man says to the doctor: "What's the good news?" "You've got 24 hours to live." He says: "What's the bad news?" The doctor says: "We should have told you yesterday."

It's my wife Ruth's birthday soon. I said to her: "What would you like for your birthday?" She said: "I want a divorce." I said: "I wasn't planning on spending that much."

A man says to his mate: "My wife is a twin." His mate says, "How do you tell them apart?" The man says: "Her brother has a beard."

Humanity to me is not a mob. A mob is a degeneration of humanity. A mob is humanity going the wrong way.

I come from a family of musicians. Even the sewing machine is a Singer.

Photography, too, reduces the world to strips and rectangles; photographers scrutinize the surfaces of reality in hope of unlocking the potential for significance that is latent within them.

Nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

When a photographer chooses a subject, he or she is making a claim on the interest and attention of future viewers, a prediction about what will be thought to have been important.

In our film profession you may have Gable's looks, Tracy's art, Marlene's legs or Liz's violet eyes, but they don't mean a thing without that swinging thing called courage.

You are what you is, you is what you am, you ain't what you're not. So see what you got?

A man walks into a pet shop and says: "Give me a wasp." The shopkeeper replies: "We don't sell wasps." He says: "There's one in the window."

I don't want to spend my life explaining myself. You either get it, or you don't.

Architecture is the frame of human existence. We must dedicate this existence more to beauty. For if poetic principle has deserted us, how long are we going to last?

A man was found dead covered in sprinkles, strawberry sauce and a flake. Reports said he may have topped himself.