We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the character. Where the writer, often with the best of intentions, has tried put a personal stamp on the character, whether it be to try and make him more current, or cool, or have a broader appeal, etc.


Gary Frank

  Email Quote to Friends   Link to Quote   Create Short URL  Publish Text About This Quote   Share on Facebook, Twitter, and more
  See Recommended Quotes For You

Related

The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
CRAIG GROESCHEL
Quite often my narrator or protagonist may be a man, but I'm not sure he's the more interest...
ANN BEATTIE
If I'm not clear with the character, I can't do anything with it. But once I get that charac...
ELIZA COUPE
I don't really approach a character as to whether or not it's good or bad. I just approach a...
ZACHARY QUINTO
When you left the house today, you had the intention of putting clothes on and you did. You didn'...
PATCH ADAMS
Are you taking us to the beach?" - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON
Often, I'll read a script and the female character's an extension or serves some sort of pur...
ANDREA RISEBOROUGH
This 'Making Mirrors' album is far more personal, even if there's a character element to...
GOTYE
One of the hopes we have when we hear or read an interview with a mystery writer is to get inside th...
OTTO PENZLER
I'm trying to make really flawed characters that have got redeeming features so people can say, ...
IRVINE WELSH
I feel that Jane's is really a vibe and a time. It wasn't like we were the Beatles. We didn&...
ERIC AVERY
I'm not a writer where I feel particularly blessed by great inspiration every day. I don't. ...
P. J. HARVEY
It looks ancient," - Amy Cahill
JUDE WATSON
We've tried to make a Superman movie where he does stuff and you go, 'Yeah, if I was Superma...
ZACK SNYDER
I can tell you that as a writer and as a reader, I regard character as king. Or queen. No matter how...
MAGGIE STIEFVATER
I think that the song 'Movin' On' can be a personal song. We've all been in relation...
CECE PENISTON
After 'Arrested Development,' I didn't know for sure if I wanted to be an actor. I was h...
ALIA SHAWKAT
A lot of times, I feel like people come up to me because they think I'm like my character in ...
EMMA STONE
If I'd had more time or been a better writer, I would have tried to put the same ideas and exper...
PHILIP GREENSPUN
As I said this year, I didn't try to put any pressure on me by setting high goals or anything, I...
DANIELA HANTUCHOVA
I kind of cheer the presence of any gay characters at all - I think the more we can saturate televis...
JESSE TYLER FERGUSON
It SMELLS ancient," - Dan Cahill
JUDE WATSON
Palm trees were fanned by a warm, light breeze, and they rolled down their windows to smell the sea.
JUDE WATSON
I've never heard Donald Trump say that he watches 'House of Cards,' but I'd be reall...
MICHAEL KELLY
All we did in Alabama was have a read through with the script, but there was, 'No, well, it need...
ALBERT FINNEY
My music, I feel, has always been experimental, but it had got to a point where I felt disconnected ...
B.O.B
I've been in fights, but that doesn't make me cool or like a tough guy or more interesting a...
SHIA LABEOUF
What you have with the Bond movies is this character gliding over everything. The fact nothing touch...
ROBERT WADE
My wife and I have a schizophrenic son. We didn't want to accept this for 30 years, so we put hi...
JAMES D. WATSON
Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill
ROLAND SMITH
I didn't really like reading much before I did 'The Golden Compass'. But then my teacher...
DAKOTA BLUE RICHARDS
Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - of...
CALLIE KHOURI
I'd say I'm a pretty intense person. I'm definitely not my Denise character on 'Scru...
ELIZA COUPE
I think the character of Superman may be the greatest fictional creation of modern times, and workin...
CHRIS ROBERSON
We didn't ever want 'Tarzan' to feel like he was just a man. We didn't want him to s...
KEVIN LIMA
I find myself more and more behind these days. You have to be really diligent. I don't have kids...
ALAFAIR BURKE
'Luther' is raw and brutal like 'Game Of Thrones,' but it's coincidence. If I...
ROSE LESLIE
There have been a few times when I've read a script and it's really cool but the girl charac...
EMILY BROWNING
We tried - we tried for a year, and we tried different methods and different - and I had in vitro an...
CHERYL TIEGS
It's true I have a hard time with the notion of creating a character. And I feel it's a limi...
LOUIS GARREL
I don't really approach stories to make them different from other stuff I've seen, I just tr...
SAM RAIMI
I've always wanted to see what Egypt was like when they were building the pyramids or Rome at th...
ALBERT HAMMOND, JR.
I look to challenge myself with a character that's not like myself or anything I've done bef...
DAVID GALLAGHER
I try to be the best version of me that I can be, whether it's acting or on a personal level.
EMERAUDE TOUBIA
Twenty years ago my parents wouldn't know who the X-Men were, and now everybody knows that stuff...
ZACK SNYDER
Like most women, I have days where I feel like today I'm not leaving the house - you know days w...
LARA STONE
I'm not dark; I'm not. The main thing I consider in accepting a role is less the tone of the...
RACHEL HURD-WOOD
I'm Welsh. We didn't do 'Peter Pan.' We have far more ancient legends to be put to s...
RHYS IFANS
No matter where we come from or where we're going, we've all got memories to contend with, a...
MADELEINE PEYROUX
If we all look at life we think how nice, then we look at death and everybody goes oh you can say th...
GARY F EVANS...
If you love someone you must set them free like the wind and give them the respect they deserve.If y...
GARY F EVANS...
When I read a script and have my first interaction with this character, do I feel like there's s...
BILL SKARSGARD
Critics think we try to make bad films. They think we want to spend five months of our lives making ...
CHRIS PINE
But even with a character like Cary who is relatively outlandish, at the end of the movie he's i...
NEIL LABUTE
I'm not a fan of 'Gone With the Wind.' I didn't like the movie. I didn't like th...
OCTAVIA SPENCER
I'm kind of feeling like I don't mind being open with the random details of my life, like I&...
KINA GRANNIS
I can't live in a world where there are only, like, four kinds of women. Or where every woman is...
CAITLIN MORAN
The entire time we playing, the current had gently moved us downstream with the tide. We were drifti...
CRAIG GROESCHEL
I'm trying to figure myself out through my movies. Whether it's big stuff like what we'r...
JASON REITMAN
Whether you're trying to learn in hockey or trying to learn in life, I've always tried to be...
SIDNEY CROSBY
I would really like to do a really cool one-hour show, maybe on, like, HBO or something like that; o...
JENNIFER LOVE HEWITT
I think what we've been able to do with 'Longmire' is balance this procedural with a bit...
KATEE SACKHOFF
The more we give, the more we reap the benefits of feeling good in helping others. We are all capabl...
ANGIE KARAN
I can count all the ways in which being a mother has enriched my understanding of the world, of char...
BARBARA KINGSOLVER
I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ...
KELLY JONES
When we were on 'The X Factor,' we didn't realize how overnight the fame thing was. We d...
ZAYN MALIK
I bought the rights to this book, 'The Ploughmen,' by a Montana writer named Kim Zupan, and ...
ED HARRIS
I've always been a person who tries to build bridges and not walls. Whether it's my ex-wife ...
CHAD COLEMAN
Whether labeled as such or not, I think every book I've ever written has been, more or less, a r...
MAGGIE SHAYNE
We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with ...
HANSIE CRONJE
I really love the idea of the poetically mad - the character that is imbued with the romantic madnes...
HOLLY BLACK
The thing is when you play a character it's the persona you bring across from a book to film, or...
ALEX PETTYFER
If something touches me, I cry. That's it. I'm a bit raw, a bit rubbish, really. Often, a di...
OLIVIA COLMAN
I couldn't enjoy 'A Dance With Dragons,' unfortunately. Of course, I enjoyed it, but it ...
BRYAN COGMAN
The Hulk was a unique character because of his strength and power. He doesn't have a costume lik...
LOU FERRIGNO
The only thing that I know how to do as an actor, as a trained actor, is you can't villainize th...
COREY HAWKINS
I've never played a character where I've had so much fun on the physical end. I don't wa...
CHARLOTTE ROSS
I try to make the readers feel they've lived the events of the book. Just as you grieve if a fri...
GEORGE R. R. MARTIN
It's a sad indication of where Washington has come, where policy differences almost necessarily ...
ERIC HOLDER
A lot of writers, especially crime writers, have an image that we think we're trying to keep up ...
IAN RANKIN
When I do a character, I try to base it on someone I have met or an experience I've had.
ILLEANA DOUGLAS
We don't design by calculator or by demographics or anything like that. We really are a group of...
MARC JACOBS
Before my book, 'California,' came out, I had modest hopes for it. Or, let's put it this...
EDAN LEPUCKI
I've read the poker books, but at this point, everybody who's playing has read the poker boo...
IRA GLASS
I'm not one of these actresses like, 'Okay, where's the camera? Is it here? Is it here?&...
HALLE BERRY
I'll never forget when me and Jason Matthews wrote the line, 'Don't be a tape player hat...
LUKE BRYAN
I said, 'Wouldn't it be great if Matt Damon's character fell in love with a girl with a ...
FRANKA POTENTE
We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that wou...
COLIN POWELL
I was a dancer, and it's not really cool for a boy to dance, so it was inspiring to see a movie ...
KENNY WORMALD
I've heard people tell me there's never been a gay character like Agron on TV before, and so...
DAN FEUERRIEGEL
Art, a book, a painting, a song, can definitely inspire change, whether it's a small change or a...
ROSE BYRNE
Ron was always my favorite character, because I feel like I relate to him, like we've both got r...
RUPERT GRINT
I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book...
WARREN G. HARDING
There are times I felt insecure or not sure: I'm unsure of myself, or I get nervous, but nerves ...
CHELSEA HANDLER
I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
I will say that adapting a character like Da Vinci really wasn't that dissimilar from doing Batm...
DAVID S. GOYER
Why can't I ever play a nice, normal, salt-of-the-earth type? Is there something I should know? ...
MEGAN MULLALLY
I never thought about how I didn't have a cell phone or I'm in 2011. I was just so happy to ...
BERENICE BEJO
When I started playing music, I was more of a character. Now I'm just me with a cool outfit on. ...
BEN HOPKINS
I've gotten to the point where I'm comfortable guarding any position on the floor. It just d...
DRAYMOND GREEN

More Gary Frank

For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identi...
GARY FRANK
Christopher Reeve so completely inhabited the character Superman when he was in that costume, and th...
GARY FRANK
When Captain America is in a room full of Marvel superheroes, he is always Top Dog, even though his ...
GARY FRANK
The fact is that Superman isn't around because he is the oldest superhero. He's still around...
GARY FRANK
We can't do a modern Batman continually beating up thugs in zoot suits with tommy guns in violin...
GARY FRANK
I don't think anyone who has been to Africa comes away untouched by the place. You see a lot of ...
GARY FRANK
I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. ...
GARY FRANK
boys, girls and music . . why do they need gin?
FRANK
Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
ANNE FRANK
The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to...
FRANK IERO
I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I...
FRANK SINATRA
The best revenge is massive success.
FRANK SINATRA
There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
FRANK ZAPPA
Mobile video is now a reality and a force to be reckoned with. I think it is essential to think abou...
ZE FRANK
I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and ...
ZE FRANK
We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see w...
ZE FRANK
For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It's time to bring them back.
ZE FRANK
If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody'...
ZE FRANK
I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your...
ZE FRANK
YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been adde...
ZE FRANK
I'm fascinated by simple joy.
ZE FRANK
We can't all be like Ryan Seacrest... the perfect platform manifestation of a human. I don't...
ZE FRANK
What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink...
ZE FRANK
I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.
ZE FRANK
I've been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-...
ZE FRANK
In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's plat...
ZE FRANK
Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusiv...
ZE FRANK
Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.
ZE FRANK
Most of us yearn for really intimate, healthy, in-person relationships. People have a deep desire to...
ZE FRANK
The naked mole is, like, the ugliest freakin' creature in the world. It is so radically, unbelie...
ZE FRANK
When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that expla...
ZE FRANK
On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss ...
ZE FRANK
I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual ...
ZE FRANK
The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
ZE FRANK
I think this is one of the greatest gifts of this era: Because of the Internet, we can start to type...
ZE FRANK
Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... ...
ZE FRANK
A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the senten...
ZE FRANK
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
FRANK ZAPPA
What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
FRANK CRANE
My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but yo...
FRANK OCEAN
When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he ...
FRANK GEHRY
There's enough pressure in life without seeking competition. That makes it double pressure.
FRANK BRUNO
Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
ANNE FRANK
I live in a crazy time.
ANNE FRANK
Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxe...
FRANK SHORTER
Don't follow trends, start trends.
FRANK CAPRA
Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.
FRANK DANE
I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.
FRANK ZAPPA
I was a thug.
FRANK OCEAN
A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.
FRANK CRANE
I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with t...
FRANK OCEAN
I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimen...
ROBERT FRANK
I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above al...
ROBERT FRANK
You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the ph...
ROBERT FRANK
It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
ROBERT FRANK
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography...
ROBERT FRANK
If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.
FRANK LANE
You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.
FRANK SINATRA
I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too ...
OTTO FRANK
We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but ...
OTTO FRANK
I think there are a number of bishops - and I put Cardinal Mahony in that category - who listen too ...
FRANK KEATING
Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions.
FRANK BUTLER
Americans have known about mounting inequality and king-sized Wall Street bonuses for years. But we ...
THOMAS FRANK
We don't have sales trading, brokerage, capital lending - any of those kinds of things that got ...
FRANK QUATTRONE
Up until 35 I had a slightly skewed world view. I honestly believed everybody in the world wanted to...
FRANK STELLA
About fifteen miles above New Orleans the river goes very slowly. It has broadened out there until i...
FRANK YERBY
When you have a brush in your hand, inking a beautiful woman is a lot like running your hands over h...
FRANK MILLER
Before the Colts arrived in 1947, the best athlete in town was a woman duckpin bowler named Toots Ba...
FRANK DEFORD
Someday we'll learn the whole story of why George W. Bush brushed off that intelligence briefing...
FRANK RICH
A life without love in it is like a heap of ashes upon a deserted hearth, with the fire dead, the la...
FRANK TEBBETS
You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.
FRANK SINATRA
I'm gonna live till I die.
FRANK SINATRA
And I think there is too much bloviating around from politicians.
BARNEY FRANK
I filed the first gay rights bill in Massachusetts history in 1972 in the legislature, one of the fi...
BARNEY FRANK
Lawyers are very, very good at keeping you out of prison, but they will sacrifice your reputation an...
BARNEY FRANK
The regulation of medicine has been a State function.
BARNEY FRANK
Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in Americ...
BARNEY FRANK
I think there was an absolute, deep gap between consensual relations between adults, which people ma...
BARNEY FRANK
Television is apparently the enemy of nuance. But nuance is essential for a thoughtful discussion.
BARNEY FRANK
I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, b...
BARNEY FRANK
Today, many people take for granted the notion that people whose lives are going to be very heavily ...
BARNEY FRANK
Capitalism works better from every perspective when the economic decision makers are forced to share...
BARNEY FRANK
Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help peop...
BARNEY FRANK
People are entitled to the presumption of innocence.
BARNEY FRANK
For many of those who had historically supported welfare programs in the broadest sense, it was perf...
BARNEY FRANK
I will tell you, I'm a lousy cook, but I think I'm a pretty good judge of a good meal.
BARNEY FRANK
But it is also clear that left entirely untouched by public policy, the capitalist system will produ...
BARNEY FRANK
It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the R...
BARNEY FRANK
Increasing inequality in income distribution in this country has broader policy implications, and th...
BARNEY FRANK
They appear to have become so attached to their outrage that they are even more outraged that they w...
BARNEY FRANK
Immortality is the genius to move others long after you yourself have stopped moving.
FRANK ROONEY
I soothe my conscience now with the thought that it is better for hard words to be on paper than tha...
ANNE FRANK
I simply can't build my hopes on a foundation of confusion, misery and death ... I think. peace and ...
ANNE FRANK
the conversion of Anne Frank into usable goods.
ANNE FRANK
The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they c...
ANNE FRANK
I don't think of all the misery, but of all the beauty that still remains.
ANNE FRANK
The great American novel has not only already been written, it has already been rejected.
FRANK DANE
You've got to bumble forward into the unknown.
FRANK GEHRY
The Spartans were a paradoxical people. They were the biggest slave owners in Greece. But at the sam...
FRANK MILLER
You don't have to go fight bulls in Spain like Hemingway to write something great, or go off to ...
FRANK MCCOURT
I was a millionaire twice over and half again before I was twenty-one. I stole every nickel of it an...
FRANK ABAGNALE
Football teams represent cities and colleges and schools. The people have built great stadiums, and ...
FRANK DEFORD
Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wis...
THOMAS FRANK
You have to be smarter and a wiser businessperson and consumer. You have to learn to protect yoursel...
FRANK ABAGNALE
I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city o...
FRANK BLACK
The great fear that hung over the business community in the 1970s was death by regulation, and the g...
THOMAS FRANK
I was fortunate that I came out to the Valley in 1979, when I came out to go to Stanford Business Sc...
FRANK QUATTRONE
There have been at least three other cases in which federal agencies have succeeded in placing fake ...
FRANK RICH
You treat a lady like a dame, and a dame like a lady.
FRANK SINATRA
A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then, it's too late.
FRANK SINATRA
People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chanc...
FRANK SINATRA
Hell hath no fury like a hustler with a literary agent.
FRANK SINATRA
Throughout my career, if I have done anything, I have paid attention to every note and every word I ...
FRANK SINATRA
There are things about organized religion which I resent. Christ is revered as the Prince of Peace, ...
FRANK SINATRA
I'm for whatever gets you through the night.
FRANK SINATRA
Oh, I just wish someone would try to hurt you so I could kill them for you.
FRANK SINATRA
Whatever else has been said about me personally is unimportant. When I sing, I believe. I'm hone...
FRANK SINATRA
Don't get even, get mad.
FRANK SINATRA
I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.
FRANK SINATRA
I'm gonna live till I die.
FRANK SINATRA
May you live to be 100 and may the last voice you hear be mine.
FRANK SINATRA
In art, at a certain level, there is no 'better than.' It's just about trying to operate...
FRANK OCEAN
It's cool to be recognised by your peers.
FRANK OCEAN
As a lifestyle you always being the focal point is innately unhealthy.
FRANK OCEAN
The idea of recognising your strengths and using them in as versatile a way as you can is cool to me...
FRANK OCEAN
Sometimes I'm fascinated with how famous my work could be while I'm not so famous.
FRANK OCEAN
I enjoy singing my songs in front of people.
FRANK OCEAN
Art's everything we hope life would be, a lot of times.
FRANK OCEAN
I don't have any secrets I need kept any more.
FRANK OCEAN
A friend of mine jokes that I have a painstaking royalty complex. Like maybe I was a duke in a past ...
FRANK OCEAN
I'm not a centerfold.
FRANK OCEAN
As long as your intentions are solid and about growth and progression and being productive and not b...
FRANK OCEAN
I don't ever want to be caught up in a system of thinking I can do one thing 'cos that's...
FRANK OCEAN
We all know we have a finite period of time. I just feel if I'm going to be alive, I want to be ...
FRANK OCEAN
I'm big on what's in good taste.
FRANK OCEAN
There's just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.
FRANK OCEAN
You can't think; you just gotta do things.
FRANK OCEAN
Some people focus more on sonics. Some people focus more on story. I focus on both sonics and story,...
FRANK OCEAN
You just do what you can and you have as much fun as possible.
FRANK OCEAN
People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
FRANK OCEAN
War is not a thing one wants.
HANS FRANK
Ninety percent of the members of the Academy of German Law were not members of the Party.
HANS FRANK
In the main the Academy helped to frame only laws of an economic or social nature, since owing to th...
HANS FRANK
My aim was to safeguard justice, without doing harm to our war effort.
HANS FRANK
First, I was Bavarian State Minister of Justice, and after the ministries of justice in the various ...
HANS FRANK
The police officers, so far as discipline, organization, pay, and orders were concerned, came exclus...
HANS FRANK
I did not destroy the 43 volumes of my diary, which report on all these events and the share I had i...
HANS FRANK
A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased.
HANS FRANK
It was my dream, and probably the dream of every one of us, to bring about a revision of the Versail...
HANS FRANK
In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous.
FRANK MCCOURT
People will sit up and take notice of you if you will sit up and take notice of what makes them sit ...
FRANK ROMER
Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something...
FRANK ZAPPA
The manner in which Americans consume music has a lot to do with leaving it on their coffee tables, ...
FRANK ZAPPA
The most brutal, ugly, desperate, vicious form of expression it has been my misfortune to hear.
FRANK SINATRA
I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with t...
FRANK OCEAN
My first show was when I was a high school freshman, but it was at the junior class dance. My older ...
FRANK IERO
In the last James Bond movie, the villain was a culture captain, a tycoon of culture, a Murdoch figu...
THOMAS FRANK
Mrs. Van Daan's grizzling is absolutely unbearable; now she can't any longer drive us crazy over the...
ANNE FRANK
The refusal to choose is a form of choice; disbelief is a form of belief.
FRANK BARRON
I'm a late bloomer.
FRANK MCCOURT
Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect any who seek it.
FRANK HERBERT
For-profit higher education is today a booming industry, feeding on the student loans handed out to ...
THOMAS FRANK
Conservatives may believe that impoverished borrowers destroyed Wall Street. But we liberals will no...
THOMAS FRANK
Strategy is buying a bottle of fine wine when you take a lady out for dinner. Tactics is getting her...
FRANK MUIR
Nothing anybody's said or written about me ever bothers me, except when it does.
FRANK SINATRA
Art is making something out of nothing, and selling it.
FRANK ZAPPA
Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have becom...
FRANK HERBERT
Truth is a thing immortal and perpetual, and it gives to us a beauty that fades not away in time.
FRANK NORRIS
Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
FRANK HERBERT
Despite the fact that every sport this side of badminton worries about concussions that result in br...
FRANK DEFORD
When law and duty are one, united by religion, you never become fully conscious, fully aware of y...
FRANK HERBERT
If you're going to exude naivete, you can't really... walk out there like it's a Sting s...
FRANK BLACK
I'm a spoilt brat. I thought I was just going to walk in and make movies. But I'd been my ow...
FRANK MILLER
We can't just rail against crime. We must speak of the root problems - devastating family breaku...
FRANK WOLF
Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.
FRANK ZAPPA
I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn't be a staring contest.
FRANK SINATRA
I'm supposed to have a Ph.D. on the subject of women. But the truth is I've flunked more often than ...
FRANK SINATRA
If you say you've had a nervous breakdown or things aren't right mentally, people run away f...
FRANK BRUNO
The time spent in trying to impress others could be spent in doing the things by which others would ...
FRANK ROMER
Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to cha...
FRANK POPOFF
Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohib...
FRANK GAFFNEY
The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere...
FRANK SWINNERTON
It isn't necessary to imagine the world ending in fire or ice; there are two other possibilities: on...
FRANK ZAPPA
Rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can't...
FRANK ZAPPA
The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.
FRANK ZAPPA
Most rock journalism is people who can't write interviewing people who can't talk for people who can...
FRANK ZAPPA
I have three degrees in history and only one in law, but since I came back to specialize in constitu...
FRANK SCOTT
America has run the world for at least the past 50 years, and when you're at the top that long, you ...
FRANK OGDEN
Discoveries are often made by not following instructions, by going off the main road, by trying the ...
FRANK TYGER
Do we really want to know how Michael Jackson makes his music? No. We want to understand why he need...
FRANK ZAPPA
We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of po...
FRANK RIZZO
Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person'...
ANNE FRANK
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-makin...
FRANK HERBERT
It's the children the world almost breaks who grow up to save it.
FRANK WARREN
Why not go out on a limb? Isn’t that where the fruit is?
FRANK SCULLY
The essence of Christianity is told us in the Garden of Eden history. The fruit that was forbidden w...
FRANK ZAPPA
You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.
FRANK MCCOURT
Fear is the mind-killer.
FRANK HERBERT
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the r...
FRANK HERBERT
So many books, so little time.
FRANK ZAPPA