Ze Frank Quotes

Going so soon? I wouldn't hear of it. Why my little party's just beginning. ~ Wicked Witch of the West Wizard of Oz

I wouldnt mind seeing opera die. Ever since I was a boy, I regarded opera as a ponderous anachronism, almost the equivalent of smoking.

I found the material that people hated the most and used the most. So, I was going and try and see if I could play with it sculpturally.

I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner?

The best advice I've received is to be yourself. The best artists do that.

Some people without brains do an awful lot of talking, don't you think?

I know what I want, I have a goal, an opinion, I have a religion and love. Let me be myself and then I am satisfied. I know that I’m a woman, a woman with inward strength and plenty of courage.

A real man loves his wife, and places his family as the most important thing in life. Nothing has brought me more peace and content in life than simply being a good husband and father.

I did not care for Wagner. My tastes are more classical. Der Fuhrer had no musical taste and liked Wagner because of the bombastic Teutonic glories.

No saint, no pope, no general, no sultan, has ever had the power that a filmmaker has; the power to talk to hundreds of millions of people for two hours in the dark.

A Jedi uses the Force for knowledge and defense, never for attack.

They are the new breed of slot machine-colorful, fancy, exciting, wonderful...and deadly.

I ask nothing of the Jews except that they should disappear.

If we define Futurism as an exploration beyond accepted limits, then the nature of limiting systems becomes the first object of exploration.

There are no rules in filmmaking

If you don't make mistakes, you're not working on hard enough problems. And that's a big mistake.

I was not depressed when they got me out. I have always taken my dismissals as part of the game.

It is amazing how much crisper the general experience of life becomes when your body is given a chance to develop a little strength.

The thing always happens that you really believe in; and the belief in a thing makes it happen.

Distance sometimes lets you know who's worth keeping and who's worth letting go.

Dare to wear the foolish clown face.

Modern Americans behave as if intelligence were some sort of hideous deformity.

Where there is hope...there is life

These are dangerous days we live in and you, the artists, are our last defense.

The only way to find out is to find out.

There's no justice in this world.

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.

Formula feeding is the longest lasting uncontrolled experiment lacking informed consent in the history of medicine.

Monuments are for the living, not the dead.

We don't see the banality, but we accept banality. We accept it as inevitable, and it's not.

I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.

Don't ever play with someone's feelings, you could win the game but you could lose that person forever.

The most important thing that parents can teach their children is how to get along without them.

Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football.

Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her to drink it.

If someone breaks your heart, just punch them in the face. Seriously. Punch them in the face and go get some ice cream.

The slot machines sit there like young courtesans, promising pleasures undreamed of, your deepest desires fulfilled, all lusts satiated.

I destroy things every day in the act of working and often recall a picture I had considered finished in order to rework it.

Before my mother died, she told me not to leave Chelsea.

You can learn a lot, watching things eat.

Religion is the retarded stepchild of philosophy.

Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.

The creative person is both more primitive and more cultivated, more destructive, a lot madder and a lot saner, than the average person.

The space within becomes the reality of the building.

The computer can't tell you the emotional story. It can give you the exact mathematical design, but what's missing is the eyebrows.

If you're going to have centralization, why not have it!

Stay alive, stay active, and get as much practice as you can.

The secret to having a good marriage is to understand that marriage must be total, it must be permanent, and it must be equal.

You can tell all you need to about a society from how it treats animals and beaches.

Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.