W.D. Frank Quotes

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

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 am a man of few words, but many riddles.

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?

Virtue looks good but it only suits imposing figures.

If you want immortality, then deny form. Whatever has form has mortality. Beyond form is the formless, the immortal.

Doctors bury their mistakes, Architects cover them with ivy

Each generation's job is to question what parents accept on faith, to explore possibilities, and adapt the last generation's system of values for a new age.

That is the consolation of a little mind; you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

Any fool can have bad luck; the art consists in knowing how to exploit it.

Each life creates endless ripples.

We don't just change our minds, we change the way we see things. That's one reason I'm a better grandfather than I was a father.

Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque.

There is an art in silence, and there is an eloquence in it too.

I don't use a debit card. The safest thing is a credit card because you're using the bank's money. If someone accesses your information, they are stealing the bank's money, not yours.

Man is a phase of nature, and only as he is related to nature does he matter, does he have any account whatever above the dust.

Music is always a commentary on society.

But feelings can't be ignored, no matter how unjust or ungrateful they seem.

The reason for my starting a diary is that I have no real friend.

Early in my career...I had to choose between an honest arrogance and a hypercritical humility... I deliberately choose an honest arrogance, and I've never been sorry.

In other words, the more stupid one is, the more he thinks he knows.

I grew up in a household where everybody lived at the top of his lungs.

Everything has to come to an end, sometime.

To 'know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment.

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

I suppose we all have our little hiding-hole if the truth was known, but as small as it is, the whole world is in it, and bit by bit grows on us again till the day You find us out.

Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude.

When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.

I want to stay healthy, keep fit, eat well, keep a low profile and be a good dad.

Proper teaching is recognized with ease. You can know it without fail because it awakens within you that sensation which tells you this is something you have always known.

I firmly believe that we can have a healthy environment and a sustainable timber industry.

Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.

The truth always carries the ambiguity of the words used to express it.

I'm happy here, and why change when you love the club and the club's in a really good position right now.

Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.

Ideology and communication more often than not run into each other rather than complement each other. Principle and communication work together. Ideology and communication often work apart.

I just feel that no matter what comes in a career - and mine has been all over the map - you must stay at the table, pick up the cards you're dealt and play them.

Instead of using brushes all the time, try a palette knife to paint.

I give you the chameleon, whose ability to blend itself into the background tells you all you need to know about the roots of ecology and the foundations of a personal identity

Killing with the point lacks artistry, but don't let that hold your hand when the opening presents itself.

The only thing you have then to believe in is your craft.

The devil, he's about this big. He had a red suit on and a widow's peak, and then a pointed tail, and like a sulfur reek. Yes, it was him alright, I swear.

Wait for the last possible moment to make a decision.

I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things that lie buried deep in my heart.

Fighting is 90% mental. There are people who run from the fire and there are people that turn around and run to the fire.

I have a list a mile long of faults that sometimes bring me to my knees in self-hatred.

I have seen how effective language attached to policies that are mainstream and delivered by people who are passionate and effective can change the course of history.

I believe there is a champion in all of us.

Sometimes when you have bipolar you have days you are grumpy and not feeling yourself.

What I do with my life is of my own doing. I live it the best way I can.