W.D. Frank Quotes

I'm against war. Always have been, always will be. And everything connected with it, is anathema to me. I have never considered it necessary.

Is there anything more anti-American than McCarthyism?

All I learned from Eliel Saarinen was how to make out an expense account

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly.

Wherever human life is concerned, the unnatural stricture of excessive verticality cannot stand against more natural horizontality.

Why should architecture or objects of art in the machine age, just because they are made by machines, have to resemble machinery?

Taste is a matter of ignorance. If you know what you are tasting, you don't have to taste.

It looked a lot worse than it was. Al is going to be released. He has vision and it's going to be day-by-day prognosis now. But it's much, much better than we initially anticipated.

Self fulfilling prophecies do exist in real life

The two most important tools an architect has are the eraser in the drawing room and the sledge hammer on the construction site.

I string sounds together. But to string them I have to remember a bunch of old ones I heard somewhere and then juggle them into a new rhythm and shape.

How beautiful the days, They come and go.

Oh! to be loved by a man I respect, To bask in the glow of his perfectly understandable neglect.

But more I cannot wish you Than to wish you find your love Your own true love this day.

A secretary is not a toy.

Brother, do you know a nicer occupation, Matter of fact, neither do I, Than standing on the corner Watching all the girls go by?

I learned to value the small transactions as well as the large.

I don't work for nothing. I'm entitled to get paid.

Writing a book is the most difficult, anxiety-prone aspect of my life because the words that I put on paper are very serious to me.

We are so divided, and we recognize that we're divided, that we're looking for ways to come together.

If you're fighting against a minimum wage increase, you're fighting an uphill battle, because most Americans, even most Republicans, are okay with raising the minimum wage.

We will be far more effective as communicators when we acknowledge our mistakes, and then we try to make them up.

While it is important to trash the governor, it should be done in the context of regret, sadness and balance.

Believe in better is one of the most powerful words you can use in the business community.

It has to be simple, but then you deliver them a principle: The simple truth is, as a matter of principle, we cannot spend more than we take in. Something - that changes the tone of the debate.

There are words that work, that are meant to explain and educate on policies that work, on products that work, on services that work. I'm not going to ever try to sell a lemon. I don't do that.

Traditional market researchers are cold and calculating and scientific.

Most voters would rather have their purse or wallet stolen than be audited by the IRS.

Richard Nixon will always go down as a failure because of one stupid, moral - and that goes back to that last chapter, on principles.

That's the kind of visual that you're trying to attract - something that in some way or another, connects you to what's happening there in a realistic way.

What the people now respond - and the goal of those ads is to merely get the name of the medication into the minds of the consumers so that they will ask their doctor about it. That's the whole goal.

The second most important attribute of winners, after understanding the human dimension, is knowing what questions to ask, the rhetorical nature.

It applies even more to politicians because they are living, breathing embodiments of the language that they use. And it's why how you start the conversation, and how you end it, matters so much.

You need good principles and good language if you are to succeed.

The public wants to know why or why not. They don't want to know how you're going to do it.

The best advertising and the best communication when it comes to business is that which makes you smile, that which makes you think, that which makes you ponder.

The most powerful call to action of anything that we've ever tested: Let's get to work.I didnt create that phrase. It came from Rick Scott, the current governor of Florida.

Rick Scott used let's get to work to say: All these politicians talk; it's time to do. Everybody else talks about the problem; it's time to find the solution.

The visual is important. "Let's get to work" says let's get it done, and that's what they want.

My father was a dentist, and I always thought that he was one of the 10. It's an interesting way to personalize and humanize, which is one of the most important aspects of communication.

The problem is people become so angry. And they become so vicious.

The Republicans are mad at Donald Trump, and the Democrats are mad at Hillary Clinton. And the Bernie Sanders people are mad at everybody. When has that ever happened?

Whether or not you liked George W. Bush, there was no doubt about what position he was going to take, and that's what endeared him to a significant segment of American society.

Your words have power. Find words that unite. Find words that unify.

John Connally's conversion to the GOP raised the intellectual level of both parties.

The amount of quaint, authentic, rustic charm varies inversely with the pounds per square inch of water pressure in the shower.

Ideas rise with new mornings but never die.

I am teaching. Storytelling is teaching

If you were mean to your parents, they'd give you a good belt in the gob and send you flying across the room.

Shakespeare is like mashed potatoes, you can never get enough of him.