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.
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
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
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.
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.
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
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.
“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.
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.
