W.D. Frank Quotes

In the Renaissance there wasn't a distinction. Bernini was an artist and he made architecture, and Michelangelo also did some great architecture.

You can't ignore history; you can't escape it even if you want to. You might as well know where you come from, and you might as well know that everything has been done in some shape or form.

Bilbao opened in 1997. It was only ten years later that I was asked to do another museum. A lot of other people got work because of Bilbao.

I don't think of myself as being funny. But life takes strange turns.

I think anybody who has a soul would themselves and their needs aside to help other people.

I grew up with no money. No money. I always struggled and had the sense that there was this other class of people who went to college - this was when I was younger.

The Holy Spirit speaks many languages; among them the languages of art in all its forms.

Telling the truth without sensitivity can be a form of abuse.

Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.

You do not take from this universe. It grants you what it will.

If I'd been born in my grandfather's time, I'd have made my grandfather's mistakes. Theres no doubt of it. I just don't want to make my grandfather's mistakes today.

Knowing where the trap is-- that's the first step in evading it.

He who can destroy a thing, can control a thing.

Memory never recaptures reality. Memory reconstructs. All reconstructions change the original, becoming external frames of reference that inevitably fall short.

Intelligence takes chances with limited data in an arena where mistakes are not only possible but also necessary.

Madness in method, that's genius

Unfortunately most criticism is by poseurs. They use their comments about someone else's work as a platform on which to strike poses. What they're really saying is: "Look at me! Look at me!"

There has never been a truly selfless rebel, just hypocrites—conscious hypocrites or unconscious hypocrites, it’s all the same.

I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working.

To the soul's desires The body listens What the flesh requires Keeps the heart imprisoned

I have come to believe that holy boredom is good and sufficient reason for the invention of free will.

I'm the well-trained fruit tree. Full of well-trained feelings and abilities and all of them grafted onto me

Mankind has only one science… its the science of discontent.

We never get far from wealth and all of its masks when we deal with power.

Unused power was like a marionette with visible strings, nobody holding them. A compelling attraction: I could make it dance.

Power tends to isolate those who hold too much of it. Eventually, they lose touch with reality ... and fall.

The real universe is always one step beyond logic.

Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.

When you imagine mistakes, there can be no self-defense.

Radicals are only to be feared when you try to suppress them. You must demonstrate that you will use the best of what they offer.

You should never be in the company of anyone with whom you would not want to die.

The only past which endures lies wordlessly within you.

The past is no farther away than your pillow.

There exists no separation between gods and men; one blends softly casual into the other.

We faced it and did not resist. The storm passed through us and around us. It's gone, but we remain.

I made songs really for myself - I didn't ever expect to put it out there.

I'm a big proponent of letting songs tell me what they wanna sound like.

There is such a belief in the squad that we could really do something.

Training's completely different now. It used to be a lot of running and work without the ball. Now it's all with the ball, which any player loves.

If players are performing for you, their age shouldn't really matter, especially because the older players can bring their experience to the table.

If I ever have a son, I would call him Frankie, and it's a family name - it's my dad and my dad's dad, so you know, it sticks. I won't forget it.

When I closed in "King Lear" I went into a period of depression for about three weeks, and every actor I've talked to who's ever played a major, major Shakespeare role has done this.

But when I was seven or eight, I did my first little piece of acting.

Our mandate is to be a nation of laws. And the Supreme Court is the place where we look to safeguard our civil rights and our individual liberties.

Money shows [man] new ways to cheat life. Power becomes exterior instead of interior. In these circumstances architecture becomes too difficult, building too easy.

It is a terrific thing to get a building built that has the qualities of greatness in it.

We should have a system of economics that is structure that is organic tools. We do not have it. We are all hanging by our eyebrows from skyhooks economically, just as we are architecturally.

If you're a good numbers person, you're a bad language person.

By the way, for those who are listening, I absolutely define - I have a face for radio. Unfortunately, I've got a voice for print. So I apologize for the sandpaper you're listening to.

Ignore everything a politician says before the word but.