Frank Quotes

Think of Frank Capra and Preston Sturges. They used the same actors over and over again.

What I wanted was some dreamlike Frank Lloyd Wright bungalow where we could sit on the veranda forever and it would always be twilight in the temperate zones, in the most beautiful house.

I haven't any wisdom - just a child like everybody else. I'm not as great as Frank Lloyd Wright.

We are not a Zappa cover band. We only play Frank's songs that were recorded by the Mothers of Invention and I think a lot of those songs were complex.

Frank's audience doesn't care if a girl singer, a comic or an organ grinder with a monkey opens the show. They are there to see HIM.

I have been standing on the side of life, watching it float by. I want to swim in the river. I want to feel the current. -Loving Frank

People who understand music hear sounds that no one else makes when Frank Sinatra sings.

Frank Capra was a prop man, I think. John Ford was a prop man. It was a little bit of a father and son thing, and you kind of worked your way up.

Michael's the ultimate entertainer. After Michael Jackson, it's Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, and Bruce Lee.

I mistrust all frank and simple people, especially when their stories hold together

Patsy Cline belongs shoulder-to-shoulder with Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald.

This continent, an open palm spread frank before the sky.

The Merchants of Carolina, are fair, frank Traders.

My first big gig was an opening show for Frank Zappa, and I think that was difficult.

I don't think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson.

Frank Lampard is the best ever at Chelsea and one of the best I've ever played with and against in world football today, and I think what set him apart was his dedication and hard work.

We need to repeal Dodd-Frank act. It is eviscerating small businesses and small banks.

My history as a manager cannot be compared with Frank Rijkaard's history. He has zero trophies and I have a lot of them.

Reserved people often really need the frank discussion of their sentiments and griefs more than the expansive.

If you ask [my brother Frank Shamrock], I smoke crack, I do steroids and I cut myself (to get out of the Kimbo Slice fight). I mean you name it, I've done it -- just ask him.

When I received my first paycheck from my now known day job, I spent it on a period Craftsman chair and a Frank Lloyd Wright-wannabe lamp. With my second paycheck, I bought a stereo.

Frank Sinatra turns 100 this year and his music has been a major player in the soundtrack of my life. So it's only right that I return the favor and pay it forward.

One does not have to make Frank Capra movies to like people.

Frank Zappa... was Beethoven for insane rock guys.

During three decades, along all the highways of my youth, Frank had always been there for me.

Look, it's one of the great mysteries of the world, I cannot answer that question. I think I'm vaguely blonde. To be perfectly frank, I don't know.

I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone.

But me and my sister knew all the Doris Day and Frank Sinatra songs, too.

An unnoticed corner of the world suddenly becomes noticed, and when you notice something clearly and see it vividly, it becomes sacred. (On Robert Frank's photography)

Outside of advertising, the person who's influenced me most is quite possibly Frank Gehry.

If Frank Sinatra is singing, maybe everything will go good.

I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.

Marilyn Monroe was taken advantage of by most of the men that knew her, including Frank Sinatra and Joe DiMaggio, whom I also knew very well.

My musical development stopped when Frank Sinatra died.

Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress, but a barren bride.

The hardest and worst interview that I have ever done was with Frank Zappa.

I'm frank, brutally frank. And even when I'm not frank, I look frank.

Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.

I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible

Frank Sinatra taught me how to do him. It took me seven years to master him. He would tell me, tap your foot, Rich, and don't forget to grasp your sleeve.

Once I really started to understand Frank Stella's work and follow it, there's a certain type of invention and playfulness and extreme rigor with which he kept going forward.

Seeing results flow from my gifts is my greatest pleasure as a philanthropist - whether exonerating a jailed innocent or completing a Frank Gehry building. I want to enjoy my philanthropy.

Billy Gilbert hit a kamikaze back pass which Justin Fashinu pounced on like a black Frank Bruno

To quote from another gospel, DUNE by Frank Herbert, 'Fear is the mind-killer.' ... Jesus was the original Muad'dib.

I'm trying to do what Frank O'Hara did and remind myself there there's a lot of good stuff. I write about New York for my own mental health.

The people who taught really knew their stuff. My chemistry teacher, Frank Wade, was actually a chemist. I was so lucky in a number of ways.

Frank Sinatra's never been handsome, but he's one of my favorite singers. Who needs looks when you have a voice and power?

Meetings between Presidents, as you know, are supposed to be privileged. They're supposed to be confidential. They're supposed to allow the president and other leaders to have frank exchanges.

I was born in the 50s, my mom was pregnant in the 50s, [Frank] Sinatra had that big come back around then, From Here to Eternity.

I haven't seen Iowa people get so excited since the night Frank Gotch and Strangler Lewis lay on the mat for three and a half hours without moving a muscle.