W.D. Frank Quotes
Marv's a guy you've got to be careful around. He doesn't mean any harm, but he causes plenty.
Without knowing it the girl was arguing on the side of the world's expert criminologists, who hold that to destroy an offender cannot benefit society so much as to redeem him.
Dorothy did not feel nearly so bad as you might think a little girl who had been so suddenly whisked away from her own country and set down in the middle of a strange land
Values are like a pilot’s flight plan . . . without them you’re flying blind.
You don't get it boy... this isn't a mudhole... its an operating table. (KRAKKKKK) And I'm the surgeon.
Pain and betrayal and then nothingness. That's the death and she's almost welcoming it.
If we walk far enough, " says Dorothy, "we shall sometime come to someplace.
You must teach me the way you thrust your worries aside and turn to practical matters.
Though the body is itsgenesis, a poem is the vision of a p
To enter a room is to move from one environment to another and that, for the teenager, can be traumatic. There be dragons, daily horrors from acne to zit.
You can't teach in a vacuum. A good teacher relates the material to real life. You understand that, don't you?
I have said: "Blow out the lamp! Day is here!" And you keep saying: "Give me a lamp so I can find the day.
We need rules when we are young but once they are instilled we can have sensible leeway
But you will admit that it is a very good thing to be alive.
I see that you get all your info on Catholicism from thriller novels.
Responsibility is the thing people dread the most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.
This is the way to get ideas: never to let adverse circumstances discourage you, but to believe there is a way out of every difficulty, which may be found by earnest though.
Vermeer's skill was in combining few colors, mixing little and using layers of lakes and varnishes to build up the illusion of life
An artist must paint not simply surface light but what is inside, what he sees within his subject
An artist must paint not simply surface light, but what is inside, what he sees within his subject
Dreams, unlike eggs, don’t hatch from sitting on them.
I sold my first short story to Pyramid Press, where it was chiseled onto fifteen slabs of granite, and for which I was paid nine goats.
Measuring progress is often like watching grass grow. While it’s difficult to detect movement on a daily basis, it’s simple to see growth over time.
A person’s voice can have such a powerful experience on the listener, very different from looking at the words on the page.
The central mechanism of the avoidance mechanism of PTSD is the ego defense of denial
What was it St. Augustine said? "The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.
And the question of Wester religion, ” Flattery said, “is: What lies beyond death? But the question of the Zen master is: What lies beyond waking?
The next time someone says, ‘The odds are against you, ’ remember: If you don’t try, you forfeit the opportunity.
Ask yourself whether the problem will matter in a year or two. If not, it may be a trivial issue unworthy of your concern.
The only way an annoyance can bring you down is if you let it.
Hayt felt suddenly that he existed in a dream controlled by some other mind, and that he might momentarily forget this to become lost in the convolutions of that mind.
It was her, something about her- whenever she did something that felt like a raw invitation, he simply went mad in his effort to take up the gauntlet.
Nothing wins more loyalty for a leader than an air of bravura, " the Duke said. "I, therefore, cultivate an air of bravura.
Democracy is the art and science of running the circus from the monkey cage. H. L. MENCKEN
Winners recognize that even when they aren’t physically selling a product, they are always selling themselves. Every human interaction is an opportunity to connect—and then to sell.
We’re all free agents in this noncoercive class system, and Brooks eventually concludes that worrying about the problems faced by workers is yet another deluded affectation of the blue-state rich.