W.D. Frank Quotes

We have retained the forms and phrases of a republic, but in reality we are living under an oligarchy, not of courtesan, but of bureaucrats.

There cannot be a "good" society until there are "good" men.

The freedoms won by Americans in 1776 were lost in the revolution of 1913.

In America it is the so-called capitalist who is to blame for the fulfillment of Marx's prophecies. Beguiled by the state's siren song of special privilege, the capitalists have abandoned capitalism.

Just what part does the State play in production to warrant its rake-off? The State does not give; it merely takes.

We have but to remember man's natural tendency to satisfy his desires with the minimum of effort to realize how political power will be utilized.

I do have a strong desire to make films that will take the audience to some uncharted places both tonally and emotionally.

I was flabbergasted to be asked to write an episode - partly because I’ve been so absorbed in the last few series that I’d sort of forgotten that it wasn’t real.

The only perfect climate is bed.

Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

What Marie Antoinette was to eighteenth-century France, Mary Pickford is to twentieth-century America.

I hate Sunday, and I don't think I'll ever get over it. But I'm going to try.

The world doesn't owe anyone a living—including veterans.

A liberal is a man who will give away everything he doesn't own.

Blessed is he who talks in circles, for he shall become a big wheel.

A conservative is a fellow who thinks a rich man should have a square deal.

Some have greatness thrust upon them, but not lately.

Where the criminals cover their crimes by making them legal.

It is not necessary to have enemies if you go out of your way to make friends hate you.

The United Nations is an uplifting experiment, dedicated to raising the standards of living in Africa , the consciences of democracies, and the price of prostitutes in New York

The news of any politician's death should be listed under Public Improvements.

A set of rules laid out by professionals to show the way they would like to act if it was profitable.

Rome had senators too, and that is why it declined.

Preachers denounce sin as if it was available to everyone.

Nothing annoys a woman more than to have company drop in unexpectedly and find the house looking as it usually does.

I just tell you what a pleasure it is to get back to the kind of filmmaking I used to be allowed to do.

I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.

I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.

I think once you've finished a movie you really have to detach from it so that you can come back and watch it as an audience member.

I've never been a big fan of the music-video style of editing movies that crept in the last few decades. I like stuff that's able to take its time.

The human race is fundamentally insane. If you put two of us into a room together we're soon gonna start figuring out good reasons to kill one another.

The only person who can, with impunity, make the movie he wants to make, has got to be Steven Spielberg.

I am fascinated with times past.

Stanley Kubrick was a big inspiration. People accuse me of never using my own material. But when did Kubrick? You look at his films and they are completely unique... completely separate entities.

Dogs aren't like family members, they are family members.

There are some places you love with your heart, and there are some places that you love with your mind- the places that you love with both are called 'libraries'

Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.

The human face does not always reflect the beauty that may repose in the soul.

Find your soul and you'll live. Lose your soul and you'll die.

I'd have to struggle to find a subject in which I can't get some kind of interested pulse started.

Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes.

Like mimic meteors the snow, In silence out of Heaven sifts.

It is more important for Labour to raise the reputation of politics than for the Tories, who are only in politics for the money.

There are alternate definitions of manhood in the West.

If you say someone is thrilled, it implies talk of an exciting project. I'm wary of such talk.

You will find more saints are interested in antichrist than Christ.

Although it is true that petros and petra can mean 'stone' and 'rock' respectively in earlier Greek, the distinction is largely confined to poetry.

The Greek makes the distinction between petros and petra simply because it is trying to preserve the pun, and in Greek the feminine petra could not very well serve as a masculine name.

I don't care too much for thinking about the past. The truth is just another story. You can remember it any way you want; it's never gonna be the same twice.

I've been playing one way or another since I was about three years old. I don't remember not knowing how to play any instruments.