W.D. Frank Quotes

Membership in a conspiracy, as in an army, frees people from the sense of personal responsibility.

The unclouded eye was better, no matter what it saw.

Death makes a prophet's voice louder.

Paired opposites define your longings and those longings imprison you.

Peace for any prolonged period of time is impossible. Humans have a natural thirst for chaos and war is the most readily available form of chaos.

A man's flesh is his own; the water belongs to the tribe.

To stay awake all night adds a day to your life.

There's hope left in these dusty chords. There's a song left in our rusty hearts. We are torn and frayed but love remains.

A good companion is one you wouldn't mind dying with.

Chance is the nature of our universe. [...] madness represents a chaotic reservoir of surprises. Some surprises can be valuable.

Often I must speak otherwise than I think. This is called diplomacy.

Balance is what distinguishs a people from a mob.

Ask what Infinity might produce and the only answer possible was, "Anything." Any good, any evil; any god, any devil.

Major flaw in government arise from a fear of making radical internal changes even though a need is clearly seen.

Democracy is susceptible to being led astray by having scapegoats paraded in front of the electorate.

The day hums sweetly when you have enough bees working for you.

The mind goes on working no matter how we try to hold it back.

I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building.

I've always been in bands writing songs with friends in order to play shows or record a future record.

I have no want or desire to solo. I'd rather create melodies and accompanying parts.

I want results when I fight.

Conflicting economic interest is relatively unimportant as a cause of war.

Some one has said that most of us don't think, we just occasionally rearrange our prejudices.

I have a good friend who says, "We're all just dodging bullets." It seems to me the trick to living a good life is to try to move away from the gun you turn on yourself.

I had to face within myself all the things I didn't do and wasn't while I was wearing my own crown.

Divine souls suffer violent opposition from mediocre minds.

To me, young has no meaning. It's something you can do nothing about, nothing at all. But youth is a quality. And if you have it, you never lose it.

We do not learn so much by our successes as we learn by failures - our own and others! Especially if we see the failures properly corrected.

From time to time the continent shifts, and everything that isn't fastened down slides into Southern California.

If the paintings are too large, cut them in half!

We are long-term players in the industry. We're not just crazy and emotional. We try to be logical business managers.

The most powerful visual in America today is actually the Statue of Liberty.

If someone gave the Russians a football, they'd win the Super Bowl in two years.

I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words.

I don't want to be either partial or impartial.

I find that if somebody is writing and drawing a comic book, planning it to be a movie and a game at the same time tends to lead to a pretty lame job.

I realized that I was about to turn 30, and Batman was permanently 29. And I was going to be damned if I was older than Batman.

A gun is a liar's weapon

Go is no Erlang, Smalltalk or Scheme, nothing pure. But it works great and is fun!

Liberty is too priceless to be forfeited through the zeal of an administrative agent.

It can feel like an invasion of privacy, involving an employer in a personal matter.

The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free.

There was a time when the contractual relationship between the employer and the employee was supposed to be none of the public's business. That time has passed.

It is easy to be beautiful; it is difficult to appear so. I admire you, beloved, for the trap you've set. It's like a final chapter no one reads because the plot is over.

It may be the coldest day of The year, what does he think of That? I mean, what do I? And if I do, Perhaps I am myself again.

Impossible to see, the future is.

I've done TV for tons and tons of years, so I'm not crazy about doing more TV, but with films, all I want to do are different projects that aren't all the same.

Killing one person makes you a murderer. Killing a million people makes you a king. Killing them all makes you God.

Sam Hellerman is a genius!

People are learning to grasp the diversity of nature, to understand its unifying principles and to sweep away the hierarchies and see the real connections.