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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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 pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art. A painting which does not take its inspiration from the heart is nothing more than futile juggling. All authentic art is conceived at a sacred moment and nourished in a blessed hour; an inner impulse creates it, often without the artist being aware of it.
Caspar David Friedrich— As quoted in "Culture: Caspar D. Friedrich and the Wasteland" by Gjermund E. Jansen in Bits of News (3 March 2005)
She was so open and frank... She made space around her, if we just behaved... Everybody seemed to trust this woman and gathered gladly around her.
ingeborg refling hagen— On Eleanor Roosevelt, volume III
Indeed, let us be frank about it. Most of our people have never had it so good.
harold macmillan— "More production 'the only answer' to inflation", The Times, 22 July 1957, p. 4.
— Speech at Bedford, 20 July 1957.
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"
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.
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
Indeed, let us be frank about it. Most of our people have never had it so good.
— Harold Macmillan quoted in "More production 'the only answer' to inflation", The Times, 22 July 1957, p. 4; About speech at Bedford, 20 July 1957.
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)
frank Harris has no feelings. It is the secret of his success. Just as the fact that he thinks other people have none either is the secret of the failure that lies in wait for him somewhere on the way of Life.
frank harris— Oscar Wilde, letter to More Adey, May 12, 1897, quoted in Hugh Kingsmill Frank Harris (1932) p. 102.
I'm really interested with the way light plays on images and one of the artists that really reawakened my interest in comic books was frank Miller and his treatment of Daredevil, and then Wolverine and, of course, Batman.
james marsters— Worlds Of Westfield James Marsters Interview (Feb '99)
Luis Miguel has the voice and style of frank Sinatra when he was young, so I'm not mistaken when I say that if frank would have been born in Latin America his name would be Luis Miguel.[9]
luis miguel— Quincy Jones
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)
frank Nitti (unknown)1881 - 1943
— "There is but no life without Death"
frank Sinatra (by himself) - 1915-1998
— Title of one of his trademark songs.
Bye, frank!
— Who: Johnny Bartlett
— Note: He is eaten by creatures from Hell along with Patricia after rescuing her from Frank.
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.
