W.D. Frank Quotes

It's a living, breathing thing, acting.

Try to hold on to youth and it mocks you while it sprints away.

The whiskers sticking up from underneath his pancake makeup, and yet he was a beautiful lady.

First impression is unfair, because a first impression of somebody is guarded, and you don't know the person.

But I killed you,” Alyss said. “Did you?” Red turned to The Cat. “Why wasn’t I informed?

Paper has more patience than people.

If all those around you believe some particular thing, you will soon be tempted to share in that belief.

Once you get a character, you lock it in your heart - it's there.

I don't see why you reporters keep confusing Brooks (Robinson) and me. Can't you see that we wear different numbers.

As a Christian, I am responsible for the furniture of my mind.

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

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

Square cuts which ordinarily would have flashed to the boundary earned only two, and I believe that those two innings would have been worth 150 apiece in a county match.

King of kings, that must be Elvis.

When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he didn't think I would amount to anything. My mother also.

It's easier to be terrified by an enemy you admire.

The present system of protecting NHS patients was a bit of a shambles.

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

Tobacco is my favorite vegetable.

The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.

What something is depends more on when it is than anything else.

The most persistent principles in the universe are accident and error.

A requirement of creativity is that it contributes to change. Creativity keeps the creator alive.

Now there's a grown-up swinging town.

Mr. Gorbachev has apparently stumbled onto one of the best-kept secrets in recent Soviet history: Communism doesn't work.

What's troubling is that the Republicans to defend Mr. DeLay are weakening the ethics process.

Publishing the lyric books, poetry or comics of other musicians I know. That's the thing I really want to break into!

Anything played wrong twice in a row is the beginning of an arrangement.

It is because the fight against the harshest aspects of unrestricted capitalism is therefore a political problem and not an intellectual one that community action remains so essential.

In a country where nature has been so lavish and where we have been so spendthrift of indigenous beauty, to set aside a few rivers in their natural state should be considered an obligation.

I never work with an audience - I can't do this. The process depends on the highest degree of nervous concentration.

The most abundant element in the Universe is stupidity

We cannot restore traditional American freedom unless we limit the government's power to tax.

Where my heart lies is in the real-life, but at the same time part of it lies in this creative realm where I need to go in and put out that fire, scratch that itch, in order to be all rounded.

I am the slime oozing out from your TV set. You will obey me while I lead you, and eat the garbage while I feed you.

I am always tying up and then deciding to depart.

My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older friend and bandmate booked it.

We are generalists. You can't draw neat lines around planet-wide problems. Planetology is a cut-and-fit science.

Economics is not politics. One is a science, concerned with the immutable and constant laws of nature that determine the production and distribution of wealth; the other is the art of ruling.

In order to deviate successfully, one has to have at least a passing acquaintance with whatever norm one expects to deviate from.

I follow in building the principles which nature has used in its domain.

The kerosene record player is not a very efficient device.

One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters.

This disease they call 'rap' - some kind of rhythmic pulse is going by, while some sociopathic idiot is belching out grade school poetry.

You know, people are basically shitty

We started out as boss and player, and Wellington was almost like my father.

When I see architecture that moves me, I hear music in my inner ear

We're always hearing about risk-takers whose risks paid off, but they are no braver than those whose risks end in ridicule.

It's the way of all flesh, you know. Aging takes its toll. Like I said, it's the way of all flesh. When the time came and he finally had to step down, the thing that kept him going disappeared.

We are thrown back on the text, for the most part. Archaeology can give us background. It doesn't either confirm or disprove the Bible, but it may illuminate it.