W.D. Frank Quotes

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.

If we keep everything in balance, we are in harmony with ourselves and are at peace.

Let me not be so vain to think that I'm the sole author of my victories and a victim of my defeats.

Try again. Fall flat on your face, get up, try again. Fall on your face, get up, try again.

Never give up. No one knows what's going to happen next.

oh god it’s wonderful to get out of bed and drink too much coffee and smoke too many cigarettes and love you so much

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.

Even a fool gets to be young once.

Fidelity is the single most important element in solidly enduring marriages.

Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.

Language is not a genetic gift, it is a social gift. Learning a new language is becoming a member of the club -the community of speakers of that language.

We can't control our destiny, but we can control who we become.

The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America.

So, knowing what you know now, if you had the chance to go back to, say, ’68, ’70, would you do things differently?

Justice belongs to those who claim it, but let the claimant beware lest he create new injustice by his claim and thus set the bloody pendulum of revenge into its inexorable motion

As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to pry beyond that.

The world has plenty of room, riches, money and beauty ... Let us begin by dividing it more fairly.

All I want anyone to get out of my paintings, and all I ever get out of them, is the fact that you can see the whole idea without any confusion…What you see is what you see.

A simple I love you means more than money.

Believing people can soar beyond ordinary life.

I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older.

'Think in simples' as my old master used to say - meaning to reduce the whole to its parts in simplest terms, getting back to first principles.

All the more I study Nature do I revere God, because Nature is all the body of God we will ever know.

I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world.

An expert is a man who has stopped thinking. Why should he think? He is an expert.

When I sing, I believe. I'm honest. If you want to get an audience with you, there's only one way. You have to reach out to them with total honesty and humility.

I attend the greatest of all Churches. I put a capital N on Nature, and call it my Church.

Less is only more where more is no good.

I have learned that what I have not drawn I have never really seen, and that when I start drawing an ordinary thing, I realize how extraordinary it is, sheer miracle.

You have to know your body. It's part of the beauty of the training process, and once you've determined how much your body and mind can take, you can then begin to reach your potential.

[Answering the phone] Hello, this is a recording, you've dialed the right number, now hang up and don't do it again.

The very truths that gave birth to the Pentecostal movement are today generally rejected as too strong.

Psychiatry is to medicine what astrology is to astronomy.

In 1930 I became a member of the Reichstag.

A quiet conscience makes one strong!

For years I've nursed a secret desire to spend the Fourth of July in a double hammock with a swingin' redheaded broad. But I could never find me a double hammock

Life always rides in strength to victory, not through internationalism... but only through the direct responsibility of the individual.

One thing I have learned in my time in politics is that if one of the parties is shameless, the other party cannot afford to be spineless.

I am the least difficult of men. All I want is boundless love.

Making art is complicated because the categories are always changing. You just have to make your own art, and whatever categories it falls into will come later.

In physics, you don't have to go around making trouble for yourself - nature does it for you.

Perhaps the removal of trade restrictions throughout the world would do more for the cause of universal peace than can any political union of peoples separated by trade barriers.

Beware of the fish people, they are the true enemy.

The only thing wrong with architecture is architects.

Men's hearts are being searched...it is a tremendous sifting time, not only of actions but of inner motives. Nothing can escape the all-searching eye of God.

Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern.

We’re all alive, but we don’t know why or what for; we’re all searching for happiness; we’re all leading lives which are different and yet the same.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

When people look at my pictures I want them to feel the way they do when they want to read a line of a poem twice.

I love working. I don't know what the word vacation means.