Frank Quotes
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Chaste to her husband, frank to all beside, A teeming mistress,
but a barren bride.
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More Frank Quotes
I did not make this film about frank Abagnale because of what he did . . but because of what he has done with his life the past 30 years.
Steven Spielberg— Steven Spielberg.Webmaster. Abagnale & Associates - Home. Abagnale & Associates. Retrieved on 2008-10-12.
We exchanged many frank words in our respective languages.
Peter Cook— 1961 Impersonation of Harold Macmillan. Beyond the Fringe.
Let us be frank about it. Most of our people have never had it so good.Go around the country, go to the industrial towns, go to the farms, and you will see a state of prosperity such as we have never had in my lifetimenor indeed ever in the history of this country.
Stockton— 1957 Speech, Bedford, 20 Jul. This is the original form of the oft- misquoted'You never had it so good'.
The Adlerians, in the name of “individual psychology,” take the side of society against the individual. ... Adler’s later thought succumbs to the worst of his earlier banalization. It is conventional, practical, and moralistic. “Our science ... is based on common sense.” Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.
alfred adler— Russell Jacoby, Social Amnesia: A Critique of Conformist Psychology from Adler to Laing (1975), p. 23-25
I think the origin of all this clamour for tonality is not so much the need to sense a relationship to the tonic, as a need for familiar chords: let us be frank and say "for the triad"; and I believe I have good reason to say that just so long as a certain kind of music contains enough such triads, it causes no offence, even if in other ways it most violently clashes with the sacred laws of tonality.
Alban Berg— Quoted in Reich, Willi (1971). Schoenberg: A Critical Biography, p.34. Translated by Leo Black.
To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.
jean chrétien— Entre Nous, p. 2
To every reversal of people’s soveregnity, to every disappearance of the Republic corresponds a frank or disguised restitution in force of the regal justice. ‘’Tell me, according to what you judge and I’ll tell you who you are.” […] No axiom in politics is more certain than this.
françois mitterrand— Le Coup d'État permanent (1964) Part III
He ne'er considered it as lothTo look a gift-horse in the mouth,And very wisely would lay forthNo more upon it than 'twas worth;But as he got it freely, soHe spent it frank and freely too:For saints themselves will sometimes be,Of gifts that cost them nothing, free.
— Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part I (1663–64), Canto I, line 489.
Imam [Khomeini] taught us to reject injustice, and to never accept the barbaric America, which is trying to take over the world. Many people have come up with terms to describe America. But let me be frank with you, I haven't found any term more beautiful, lofty, and noble than the term "the Great Satan" to describe America.
— Deputy Secretary-General of Hizbullah Sheik Naim Qassem: America Is the Great Satan June 2007
Modern transcendental idealism, Emersonianism, for instance, also seems to let God evaporate into abstract Ideality. Not a deity in concreto, not a superhuman person, but the immanent divinity in things, the essentially spiritual structure of the universe, is the object of the transcendentalist cult. In that address of the graduating class at Divinity College in 1838 which made Emerson famous, the frank expression of this worship of mere abstract laws was what made the scandal of the performance.
william james— Lecture II, "Circumscription of the Topic"
The opening screen of T’Rain was a frank rip-off of what you saw when you booted up Google Earth. Richard felt no guilt about this, since he had heard that Google Earth, in turn, was based on an idea from some old science-fiction novel.
neal stephenson— Thanksgiving (prologue)
The man of frank and strong prejudices, far from being a political and social menace and an obstacle in the path of progress, is often a benign character and helpful citizen. The chance is far greater, furthermore, that he will be more creative than the man who can never come to more than a few gingerly held conclusions, or who thinks that all ideas should be received with equal hospitality. There is such a thing as being so broad you are flat.
richard weaver— “Life without prejudice,” p. 11-12
He ne'er considered it as loth To look a gift-horse in the mouth, And very wisely would lay forth No more upon it than 'twas worth; But as he got it freely, so He spent it frank and freely too: For saints themselves will sometimes be, Of gifts that cost them nothing, free.
— Samuel Butler, Hudibras, Part I (1663–64), Canto I, line 489.
In the national debate about a serious issue, it is the expression of the minority's viewpoint that most demands the protection of the First Amendment. Whatever the better policy may be, a full and frank discussion of the costs and benefits of the attempt to prohibit the use of marijuana is far wiser than suppression of speech because it is unpopular.
— John Paul Stevens, (Deborah Morse et al. v. Joseph Frederick, 2007).
Common sense, the half-truths of a deceitful society, is honored as the honest truths of a frank world.
— Russell Jacoby, Social Amnesia (1975), p. 23-25
The price that the market sets on the services of our resources is similarly affected by a bewildering mixture of chance and choice. frank Sinatra's voice was highly valued in twentieth-century United States. Would it have been highly valued in twentieth-century India, if he had happened to be born and to live there?
Milton Friedman— Free to Choose, with Rose Friedman (1981)
Dave Barry:: Are you really Dick Armey?Dick Armey:: Yes, I am Dick Armey. And if there is a dick army, Barney frank would want to join up.
dick armey— Discussion between Dave Barry and Dick Armey, August 2, 2000
— Reported by Mike Luckovich, quoted in "Armey makes anti-gay joke". St. Petersburg Times. August 4, 2000. Retrieved on 2008-03-05.
Art in Britain is in a very healthy state. The artists of my generation and older are at their best — people like Howard Hodgkin and frank Auerbach. The YBAs are still very strong, and it's exciting to wonder what the next generation will bring.
Peter Blake— Simon O'Hagan "Credo:Peter Blake", The Independent on Sunday, 2005-11-20. Accessed from findarticles.com, 2007-01-22
We cherish the chance to say thank you in person to Cpl. frank Buckles.
frank buckles— Defense Secretary Robert Gates, before unveiling a picture of Buckles
— CNN March 8, 2008
I got one entire song from fortune cookies (Land of Sunshine). On another one, I took words from different frank Sinatra songs and pasted them together. Another one, I was just driving around and there was a piece of paper on the ground, so I stole it.
mike patton— Guitar Magazine, September 1992.
frank: There, you see, an example of assonance.Rita: Oh, it means getting' the rhyme wrong.
willy russell— Page 6
James Bryant Conant, to frank Westheimer on presenting an idea: (Harvard Gazette)
frank westheimer— “It may not work, but if it does, it will be a footnote to a footnote in the history of chemistry.”
— Presumably in 1979 interview, section “Graduate Study at Harvard”, pp. 16–31, topic “Important conversation with James Conant.”
So long, frank Lloyd Wright.I can't believe your song is gone so soon.I barely learned the tune
Frank Lloyd Wright— Paul Simon in "So Long, Frank Lloyd Wright" (1969); on Bridge Over Troubled Water (1970)
“I’m sure Obama is an atheist, I’m sure Kennedy was an atheist, but I doubt if Pope frank is.
Richard Dawkins— Interview with Bill Maher (2013)
When we choose a man to beautify our towns, we do not automatically call on the major artists of the world. ... We now lavishly praise frank Lloyd Wright, but we never made any community use of him, though he longed for the chance.
paul goodman— p. 153 (Growing Up Absurd (1956))
The brilliant chief, irregularly great, frank, haughty, rash the Rupert of debate.
Lytton— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, The New Timon (1846), Part I.
Bartley : Why dost laugh, frank? Ilford . To see that we and usurers live by the fall of young heirs, as swine by the dropping of acorns.
— George Wilkins, The Miseries of Inforst Mariage (1607), Act III.
What'cha got in the trunk? [J. frank Parnell: Oh, you don't wanna look in there.] (after a pause) Gimme the keys.
— Who: Highway patrol officer
— Note: Said after pulling Parnell over. He opens the trunk of the Chevy Malibu and is immediately disintegrated.
Do it, frank... Take my picture... It'll look great on your mantle.
— Who: Kent Swanson
— Note: Character is a rival photographer to Frank. After trying to turn a survivor into a zombie and capture him on film, Frank mortally wounds Kent. After the battle, Kent then hands him his camera and says this line before dying from his wounds. Frank throws the camera away just after this.
