W.D. Frank Quotes

The music takes on all different jobs and hopefully is part of telling the story. Each song has to be a story unto itself. It's a very different set of muscles.

Preserving parks and open spaces is a winner because it doesn't need to be explained to everyday Americans.

I've done reasonably well over the last 10 years because I took the strategy of language and politics and applied it to the corporate world, which has never been done before.

Some people call it global warming; some people call it climate change. What is the difference?

Night is a curious child, wandering Between earth and sky, creeping In windows and doors, daubing The entire neighborhood With purple paint.

Why spend a day in the library when you can learn the same thing by working in the laboratory for a month?

There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.

I have this peculiar ability to be able to anticipate mouth movements on screen and fill them with words or sound.

I'd rather see folks doubt what's true than accept what isn't.

The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss.

I didn't ask to be born, and I don't owe God anything.

We didn't actually overspend our budget. The health Commission allocation simply fell short of our expenditure.

If fathers who fear fathering and run away from it could only see how little fathering is enough. Mostly, the father just needs to be there.

Bless me, Father, for I have sinned, it's been a minute since my last confession.

I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.

The confessions can touch on every human emotion. They can be laugh-out-loud funny, for sure, they can be heart-breaking, they can be sexual or hidden acts of kindness, they can be romantic.

Stop lying. There isn't enough time left.

I am in favor of community policing because it builds better working relationships with the communities.

You cannot brighten another's path without lighting your own.

I consider myself an excellent candidate... because I care.

There's this idea that photography is a kind of testimony and therefore we're forbidden to tell lies with it. I think that's nonsense. Photography isn't testimony.

Photography is the art of not pushing the button.

An anarchist does not want to rule others and does not want others to rule him. Nothing is so despicable as half-an-anarchist.

Think of me as the weathered sheriff coming back into Dodge 'cause the youngsters are shooting up the church and scaring the horses and not doing right by the women.

What I want to bring back to superheroes with this project is a sense of play. Things have gotten so dreary. The heroes have gotten so ugly that even their muscles have muscles.

I check the list. Rubber tubing, gas, saw, gloves, cuffs, razor wire, hatchet, Gladys, and my mitts.

To me, photography is not just a visual art, but something closer to poetry - or at least to some poetry, such as the haiku.

Ladies. Gentlemen. You have eaten well. You've eaten Gotham's wealth. Its spirit. Your feast is nearly over. From this moment on...none of you are safe.

I wasn't hired to be a moral judge. I wasn't hired to be a preacher or an evangelist. I'm hired to apply the law.

I just don't feel like I'm old. I still feel like I've got a lot of years, a lot to give in this game, and I'm able to do it because I love to work.

Alcohol, firearms and a 4 wheel drive can go a long ways towards making a rain day into a fun rest day.

From their maneuvers and their terrific speed I am certain their flight performance was greater than any aircraft known today.

The end product of child raising is not the child but the parent.

I had no trouble communicating, the player's just didn't like what I had to say.

A man doesn't have to have all the answers; children will teach him how to parent them, and in the process will teach him everything he needs to know about life.

When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of yourself. You are always a little less than an individual.

For most people, a life lived alone, with passing strangers or passing lovers, is incoherent and ultimately unbearable. Someone must be there to know what we have done for those we love.

We do not mind our not arriving anywhere nearly so much as our not having any company on the way.

These days, of course, the focus of talk about popular liberation through products is mostly associated with the Internet. I've been collecting computer ads and ads dealing with Internet industries.

Recording an album and doing it live are like two different animals. There are some people that are great singers live, horrible in the studio.

You take a fraction of reality and expand on it. It's very seldom totally at odds with the facts. It's shaving a piece of reality off.

The hearts of all men dwell in the same wilderness.

Nothing is quite so horrifying and paralyzing as to win the Oedipal struggle and to be awarded your mother as the prize.

We always carry out by committee anything in which any one of us alone would be too reasonable to persist.

If a large city can, after intense intellectual efforts, choose for its mayor a man who merely will not steal from it, we consider it a triumph of the suffrage.

Character, not passion keeps marriages together long enough to do their work of raising children into mature, responsible, productive citizens.

The casinos believe in math (and I don't mean numerology).They believe in the power of percentages and short pays, not in the power of magic stones, amulets and omens.

Talk ought always to run obliquely, not nose to nose with no chance of mental escape.

Scobe's Tenth Law: In all endeavors, in all aspects of life, there are more horses asses than horses!

Scobe's Fifth Law: All dealers wish they were doing something other than dealing. All dealers have plans to get out of dealing. Ten years later they have different plans to get out of dealing.