W.D. Frank Quotes

The safety requirements, which are necessary, spread everything out and push people farther and farther away from the stage and from each other.

I don't micromanage the interiors. People ask me to and I say no. I don't want to control everything.

We deny our nature to build and create and then wonder why there is so much alienation and dissatisfaction.

It should begin much earlier with arts education in the American school system, which is sadly deficient.

Generally in our world, whether in architecture or almost anywhere else, we devalue the artist, and schools at whatever level shut people down.

Ultimately you can't repress individuality, even though you can try.

I never said I was opposed to the LEED program or to green building - I'm not.

I don't make things with my hands, although I studied woodworking and made furniture.

I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.

My buildings are all on budget.

My father probably - he had flashes of creativity - he used to do store windows for fruit stores that he worked in and stuff.

In an ideal world, pressure should come from below and from the top.

Anybody I talk to agrees that maybe 2 percent of the building environment since the war, we could call architecture.

Democracy is a problem and we don't want to get rid of it.

I was the law and order.

It is wonderful... Steve and Dan took professional football to a whole different level with the way they played the game. The fact that Steve is going in with Dan is very special.

My job as an actor is to serve the script. If I'm looking at it as to see what the best character is, then it's not really looking at the big picture.

I think there is a level of altruism that wants to help fellow human beings.

I look at the script first and who's directing it and then talk to the director to find out what his vision of the movie is and if it matches my vision and then we go after it.

I'm not really enamored by movie stars.

I did 'The Grey,' and it was very intense and emotional because we're in the wilderness, and it was always 30 degrees. You kind of lose your sense of reality in the fact that you're filming a movie.

The reality is you don't get stand offs who are expert kickers as well as top drawer runners. The trick is to find a balance but Phil is putting a lot of guys into gaps.

Thankfully, I'm not superstitious.

When I'm a Buddhist my family hates me. When I'm the Buddha they love me.

Why is it that foolishness repeats itself with such monotonous precision?

Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man.

In my estimation, more misery has been created by reformers than by any other force in human history.

One must cast off old agonies as a snake casts off its skin--only to grow a new set and accept all of their limitations.

Religion must remain an outlet for people who say to themselves, "I am not the kind of person I want to be." It must never sink into an assemblage of the self-satisfied.

When you think you know something: that is a most perfect barrier against learning.

To endure oneself may be the hardest task in the universe.

Those who would repeat the past must control the teaching of history.

Ecology is often confused with environmentalism, while in fact, environmentalism often leaves out the fact that people, too, can be a legitimate part of an ecosystem.

Journalism is the entertainment business.

The young reed dies so easily. Beginnings are times of great peril.

Can you collect chaos? Not collecting, that is the ultimate gathering. What can you gather without gathering yourself.

Love is not a mood, but a dynamic way of being.

I don't speak ... I operate a machine called language. It creaks and groans, but is mine own.

In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.

Most men go through life unchallenged, except at the final moment.

What do such machines really do? They increase the number of things we can do without thinking. Things we do without thinking-there’s the real danger.

Beaurocracy destroys initiative.

Control the coinage and the courts — let the rabble have the rest.

The whole universe sat there, open to the man who could make the right decisions.

Educational bureaucracies dull a child's questing sensitivity.

People don't vote. Instinct tells them it's useless.

Prophets have a way of dying by violence.

There are problems in this universe for which there are no answers. Nothing. Nothing can be done.

The act of saying that things exist that cannot be described in words shakes a universe where words are the supreme belief.

Always prepare secondary ways of dealing with problems.