W.D. Frank Quotes

Habits are safer than rules you don't have to watch them. And you don't have to keep them either they keep you.

Nobody's problem is ideal. Nobody has things just as he would like them.

You can't be envious and happy at the same time.

Our best friends and our worst enemies are our thoughts. A thought can do us more good than a doctor or a banker or a faithful friend. It can also do us more harm than a brick.

I will say this about being an optimist: even when things don't turn out well you are certain they will get better.

We must pray for more prayer for it is the world's mightiest healing force.

Automatic simply means that you can't repair it yourself.

Don't quote me that's what you heard not what I said.

Be yourself. Who else is better qualified?

Your future depends on many things but mostly on you.

Man is still responsible. ... His success lies not with the stars but with himself. He must carry on the fight of self-correction and discipline.

If you begin to live life looking for the God that is all around you every moment becomes a prayer.

Pro football is like nuclear warfare. There are no winners only survivors.

That is the consolation of a little mind you have the fun of changing it without impeding the progress of mankind.

No man is as anti-feminist as a really feminine woman.

You’ll never learn anything or impress anyone by making excuses and diverting blame.

When I came to America, I dreamed bigger dreams.

I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die.

That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.

A nation's ability to fight a modern war is as good as its technological ability.

The Internet made fame wack and anonymity cool.

Kids all want to look cool, as if knowledge is a great burden, but they're always looking around. They remember.

The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me.

I feel like I was writing as I was learning to talk. Writing was always a go-to form of communication. And I knew I could sing from being in tune with the radio.

I'm a very methodical writer. Before computers, I used reams of paper and stacks of index cards.

Future generations will know there's nothing mystical about wetware because by 2100, Moore's law will have given us tiny quantum computers powerful enough to upload a human soul.

When the first computers started to come in, we tried to digitalize the seismological equipment.

Christopher Walken and Nathalie Baye played my parents so well that I really thought I was in my living room at Christmas. My mother couldn't have been played more correctly.

Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.

I've also committed my time and resources to many local organizations like Christmas in April, Catholic Community Services, and Hudson County Meals on Wheels.

I get a little behind during Lent, but it comes out even at Christmas.

Super-envious of the fact that Daft Punk can wear robot helmets and be one of the most famous bands in the world, while also understanding that will never be my situation.

Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous.

I partied in every capital in Europe, basked on all the famous beaches, and good-timed it in South America, the South Seas, the Orient, and the more palatable portions of Africa.

I'm sure there will come a time when I won't be able to, you know, walk around so easy sometimes, or it's just things that I don't necessarily want. I don't really necessarily want to be famous.

It's man's nature to abuse knowledge and power, be it in the realm of science, government, or Wall Street. Take God out of the picture, and you have real trouble.

We don't look at teachers as scholars the way they do in Europe. In Spain you're called a professor if you're a high school teacher, and they pay teachers - they pay teachers in Europe.

If I have a cause, it's the cause of the teacher.

We all grow up. Hopefully, we get wiser. Age brings wisdom, and fatherhood changes one's life completely.

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then, it's too late.

From morning when I wake up until I go to sleep, I am working. I go to bed and I want to switch off, but the brain doesn't switch off.

What is it to enjoy life? Sit at the beach? No. What it is is that you have to do something, you have be productive, make a contribution to the society, to the family, to yourself.

Architecture should speak of its time and place, but yearn for timelessness.

Architecture has always been a very idealistic profession. It's about making the world a better place, and it works over the generations because people go on vacation and they look for it.

Architecture is a service business. An architect is given a program, budget, place, and schedule. Sometimes the end product rises to art - or at least people call it that.

It's not new that architecture can profoundly affect a place, sometimes transform it. Architecture and any art can transform a person, even save someone.

Look, architecture has a lot of places to hide behind, a lot of excuses. 'The client made me do this.' 'The city made me do this.' 'Oh, the budget.' I don't believe that anymore.

Architecture can't fully represent the chaos and turmoil that are part of the human personality, but you need to put some of that turmoil into the architecture, or it isn't real.

There are a lot of questions about whether architecture is art. The people who ask that think pretty tract houses are architecture. But that doesn't hold up.

The second is the damage to the credibility and independence of a free press which may be caused by covert relationships with the U.S. journalists and media organizations.