W.D. Frank Quotes

I think Donald Trump is gonna do great. Because I've worked with him and known him a long time. He's a guy who is not programmed to fail.

I hate to say Napster kind of killed our business, but what can I tell ya?

No one sells records anymore. It's all about touring. It's all greatest hits records and box sets. And even those don't sell. People just go online.

I don't really play overseas stuff. I'm a bit of a dinosaur in that way. You gonna improve on a Les Paul or Fender Stratocaster? Those are perfect designs, and there is nothing to add really.

I've been a musician for 52 years professionally. I do it because, for me, I love it.

Donald Trump is a guy that's gets stuff done. If he says he's gonna do something, he does it. He doesn't worry about it. He's got thick skin. He's gonna do it. He's gonna bring jobs back.

Donald Trump is an "America first" guy. He said, "We protect everyone else's borders but our own."

When the country prospers, everyone does. In music and in everything.

I don't believe in tame poetry. . . . Poetry busts guts.

He's got a knock on his shin there, just above the knee.

Abstract paintings must be as real as those created by the 16th century Italians.

I don't like a lot of the stuff that goes on in the art world, but it's hard to be old and like what goes on around you.

Scarlatti [Kirkpatrick] started writing sonatas when he was 66 and the idea that he ran off 500 or so after he was 66 was just too much for me to resist. It's just great.

Life's miseries fall disproportionately on children.

My maturity level is rising. I think there are certain situations that I'm handling better than in the past.

Money doesn't motivate, but stats do.

The more I look back on my life, the more I see miracles.

The best way to hear somebody else's secret is actually to share one of your true secrets.

I read your secrets to escape from my own.

Sometimes you don't realize you've crossed a line until you're on the other side and can't go back.

I needed to recognize those secrets I was keeping from myself- secrets I had buried long ago. I needed Post Secret just as much as the other people who were mailing me their secrets.

Gary Shaw says a lot of things without engaging his brain sometimes and it's a great shame, because he's not a bad chap actually.

Someday I will have nothing left to lose. I can't wait.

There are two kinds of secrets: those we keep from others and those we hide from ourselves.

At seventeen I'm waiting for my life to actually begin. I'm afraid I'll wake up tomorrow eighty years old and I WILL STILL BE WAITING.

The secrets I receive reflect the full spectrum of complicated issues that many of us struggle with every day: Intimacy, trust, meaning, humor, and desire.

You know what I'm talking about. This business has changed. Flyers aren't pilots anymore, they're engineers. This is a college man's game. Our work is done. The pioneering is over.

Through the miracles of modern medicine George Burns still chases pretty girls, and through the miracle of modern psychiatry he intends to find out why!

I have worked alone and with a cast and enjoy the process both ways. There is more back-and-forth with a full cast, and you can feed off the other actors' performance.

I don't have a problem with big name actors coming into animation. It actually has been done for years and we are after all actors, it is just a different medium that requires a different technique.

One thing that seems to surprise the studios is finding out later my willingness to audition. Under the right circumstances, I actually enjoy it very much.

Normally I play dads, good guys, and little animals.

In terms of the films I make, I'm just more excited about it if I've written it. It's like living in a house that you've built rather than a rental.

I'm always trying to make movies. It's what I love to do more than anything. I love to write and direct.

I would love to be able to direct episodic television, because it's a great way to make a living, and it's something where I think I could utilize my talents as well as my ability to work fast.

I like to make movies about how people actually live, realistically.

If my life is not crazy and complicated, then something's wrong. I'm happiest when it is, and the fact of the matter is, it's what keeps me fresh.

I enjoy the kind of characters that allow you to write the dark stuff. I love Rachmaninoff and Tchaikovsky, and when I'm writing for Dracula or Jekyll & Hyde, I get a chance to use that vocabulary.

When you are writing for an artist you are trying to get into that artist's point of view. What does that artist want to say? What do they care about? And musically, you want to show off that artist.

It was never a policy of the Kent team that the pitch must be occupied all day after winning the toss.

It is often argued that left-handed batsmen have an advantage compared with the right-handers. I do not agree.

Creativity requires taking what Einstein called 'a leap into the unknown.' This can mean putting your beliefs, reputation and resources on the line as you suffer the slings and arrows of ridicule.

The language and concepts contained herein are guaranteed not to cause eternal torment in the place where the guy with the horns and pointed stick conducts his business

If we cannot be free, we can at least be cheap

This is a stupid song and that's the way I like it.

The ONLY thing that seems to band all nations together, is that their governments are universally bad.

I have four children, and I want them to grow up in a country that has a working First Amendment.

Find you a bridge and take a jump. Just make certain you do it right the first time, cause nothing's worse than a suicide chump.

Elvis has left the building to climb up that heavenly stair. So what if he looks like a wart-hog in heat?

I'm just one of these unpopular musicians.