W.D. Frank Quotes

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

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

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.

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

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.

No matter how dreary and gray our homes are, we people of flesh and blood would rather live there than in any other country, be it ever so beautiful. There is no place like home.

The philosophy I shared... was one of ambition - ambition to succeed, ambition to grow, ambition to move forward - backed up by hard work.

There should be a science of discontent. People need hard times and oppression to develop psychic muscles.

Providence and Manifest Destiny are synonyms often invoked to support arguments based on wishful thinking.

Silence is often the best thing to say.

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

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

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

There are moments when it's too quiet. Particularly late at night or early in the mornings. That's when you know there's something lacking in your life. You just know.

Only by zealously guarding the rights of the most humble, the most unorthodox, and the most despised among us can freedom flourish and endure in our land.

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.

What greater gift is there than to demonstrate you need not fear death?

The blue wall will always be there because the system supports it.

A voice hissed: "He sheds tears!" It was taken around the ring "Usal gives moisture to the dead!" He felt fingers touch his damp cheek, heard the awed whispers.

A friend is never an imposition.

I know of no more disagreeable sensation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be.

No one knows how to love anybody's trouble.

Laws to suppress tend to strengthen what they would prohibit.

Nobody ever flunked a science museum

Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.

I don't wanna spend the whole of my life indoors, laying low and waiting on the next storm. I don't wanna spend the whole of my life inside, I wanna step out and face the sunshine.

I won't sit down And I won't shut up And most of all I will not grow up

Love is about all the changes you make, and not just three small words

I have said my philosophy - I'm a backyard philosopher, I guess - is that the dirtiest word in the English language is "retirement."

I'll just bleed so the stars can have something dark to shine in

A creative person respects the creative spark in other individual men, and in all men (and women).

A man once said when the legend gets bigger than the man, you've lost the man and you have an unrealistic picture.

Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.

I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly.

Give as few orders as possible," his father had told him once long ago. "Once you've given orders on a subject, you must always give orders on that subject.

Only sing - don't do cheap songs, don't do silly songs, just do, just do wonderful songs that are well-written.

Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way... style.

Do I Stank or was it already Stanky in Here?

The highest function of ecology is the understanding of consequences.

The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we do to each other.

I don't fear anybody... at all.

Falsehood always punishes itself.

I embraced a cloud but when I soared it rained.

I take a lot of pitches. Some guys hate to do that.

I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.'