W.D. Frank Quotes

Prisons are needed only to provide the illusion that courts and police are effective. They're a kind of job insurance.

Hope clouds observation.

On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss this as some sort of bad trend in human culture. But the truth is life is being lived there.

The difference between religions and cults is determined by how much real estate is owned.

The most incredible gift you can give someone in a video is to help them feel less alone... The things that make us feel the most alone, have the greatest power to connect us

Nature is never other than serene even in a thunderstorm.

Why, I just shake the buildings out of my sleeves.

If enough of us believe, a new thing can be made to exist. Belief structure creates a filter through which chaos is sifted into order.

For many, many years I wouldn't sing 'My Way.' It seemed pretentious for me to sing [my father's] song 'My Way.' Now it must be in the show to help us tell the story.

Imitate nothing except principle.

Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

Show me a completely smooth operation and I'll show you someone who's covering mistakes. Real boats rock.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination

Governments do not know what they cannot do until after they cease to be governments. Each government carries the seeds of its own destruction.

Learning is never aversive - usually we are not aware of it at all. It is failure to learn that is frustrating and boring, and so is having to attend to nonsensical activities.

I would like to be able to admire a man's opinions as I would his dog - without being expected to take it home with me.

Most of us must learn a great deal every day in order to keep ahead of what we forget.

In no other pursuit is the best or the worst in a man brought out as in mountaineering. An old friend of civilization may be a useless companion on a mountain.

I bought these shoes in Taiwan, and they said in the inside "made around the corner."

I do not believe in adding enrichment merely for the sake of enrichment. Unless it adds clearness to the enunciation of the theme, it is undesirable, for it is very little understood.

In these days of wars and rumors of wars - haven't you ever dreamed of a place where there was peace and security, where living was not a struggle but a lasting delight?

I am a man of few words, but many riddles.

Your mind is a treasure house that you should stock well and it's the one part of you the world can't interfere with.

I go out each morning and draw. I can't really start a painting in the morning until I've done a drawing.

Even as a kid- do all kids think about this? I hope they don’t, I hope my kids don’t think about this- I was always thinking about, "Well, what are we doing? What is this all about?"

One and one is eleven.

Nature does not make mistakes. Right and wrong are human categories.

Many of us are fortunate to be blessed with the ability to succeed - not for our sole benefit, but so we may apply the result of our success to assist others.

It's always awkward to pretend to play. I feel like Ashlee Simpson. Oooh, zing.

You've got to go out there and do your things. Whatever comes your way, you jump on it, and like anything, that's how you get your experience.

Boxing is just show business with blood.

By nature, you're aggressive, if you're a fighter, so you deal with things in an aggressive way.

Any artist can't get away from the way the world works, which is that it wants to know what you did, and you're only interested in what you're doing right now.

I believe totally in a Capitalist System, I only wish that someone would try it.

There is no short and easy road, no magic cure for those ills which have afflicted mankind from the dawn of history.

Because the only thing that punk rock should ever really mean, is not sitting 'round and waiting for the lights to go green

I get cranky real easily. So the honor of it and the wonder of it all and everything has a hard time overcoming the petty annoyances; I mean, that's simply the reality of being alive, I guess.

I don't have to be nice to people who are causing great damage to the nation.

The making of thoughts is the most common instance of human participation in the creative act.

To stand alone against all adversity is the most sacred moment of existence.

When you're a man you try and be macho.

I can't imagine a set of circumstances that would produce Chapter 11 for Eastern.

I hear music Mighty fine music, The murmur of a morning breeze up there The rattle of the milkman on the stair Sure that's music.

The world is anxiously waiting to see what Jesus Christ can do in, by, for, and through one man wholly given to him - God-led. You can be that man.

A screenwriter is much like being a fire hydrant with a bunch of dogs lined up around it.

Leo's goals are works of art.

An old man dies. A young woman lives. A fair trade.

I went off to college planning to major in math or philosophy-- of course, both those ideas are really the same idea.

Politics is gut; commercials are gut.

I'm a comic book artist. So I think to myself, what do I like to draw? I like to draw hot chicks, fast cars and cool guys in trench coat. So that's what I write about.