Frank Quotes - Page 6

• In such situations, of course, people don't nurse their anger silently, they moan aloud; but these are not frank, straightforward moans, there is a kind of cunning malice in them, and that's the whole point. Those very moans express the sufferer's delectation; if he did not enjoy his moans, he wouldn't be moaning.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Nurse, People, Kind

  16 Copy quote

• Back in the Rat Pack days, we'd take Frank's plane and sit dead center, because of Nancy. We'd watch the Rat Pack in the center ring and you couldn't ask for a better thing.

  James Darren

  Watches, Rats, Nancy

  64 Copy quote

• We met with the poet Frank O'Hara, who was a link between Upper and Lower Bohemia, and who worked at the Museum of Modern Art, where we had hoped to do the readings.

  David Amram

  Art, Reading, Museums

  8 Copy quote

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

  Jay Chiat

  Advertising, Advertising Agencies, Persons

  "Virtual Chiat". Interview with David Dix, www.wired.com. July 01, 1994.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway.... Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.... What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. .. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  Honesty, Self, Years

  58 Copy quote

• When I started making films, I wanted to make Frank Capra pictures. But I`ve never been able to make anything but these crazy, tough pictures. You are what you are.

  John Cassavetes

  Crazy, Able, Tough

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not a star. I'll never be a Frank Sinatra or Elvis Presley or a Ray Charles. I'm just an imitator, man. I'm doing a very bad imitation on the bass of Jerry Jemmott, Bernard Odum, Jimmy Fielder, Jimmy Blanton, Igor Stravinsky, Jimi Hendrix, John Coltrane, James Brown, Charlie Parker... the cats, man. I'm just backing up the cats.

  Jaco Pastorius

  Stars, Cat, Men

  77 Copy quote

• In an inconspicuous way, Gretchen Parlato knows
  how to play the same instrument that Frank Sinatra played.
  There's no one out there like Gretchen.

  Wayne Shorter

  Play, Way, Instruments

  11 Copy quote

• There was this little shaggy dog on it, and Frank Weatherwax was working the dog. One day we were all sitting around, and Frank said, listen, my brother Rudd just got the rights back from MGM for Lassie, and said have your agent check into it. I did, and I went for a screen test.

  Tommy Rettig

  Dog, Brother, Rights

  7 Copy quote

• I really don't teach the way Professor [Frank Moore] Cross does. I don't teach the text the same way he does. I teach Biblical themes, Biblical events.

  Elie Wiesel

  Biblical, Events, Doe

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• In an Italian household, there were two figures for me growing up - you had the Pope and you had Frank Sinatra, and, of course, Tony Bennett. And not necessarily in that order.

  Robert Davi

  Growing Up, Italian, Two

  "INTERVIEW: Actor Robert Davi On His Frank Sinatra Tribute, His Hamptons Roots, "Davi’s Way" And More". Interview with Nicole Barylski, www.hamptons.com.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Anyone who follows me on Twitter knows that I am a massive Frank [Turner] fanboy.

  Timothy Omundson

  Follow Me, Turner, Knows

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• For me, what's compelling about sexuality is the way that desire transforms what we take in through our senses, the ways in which our bodies betray us or rescue us by insisting on their own non-negotiable truths. Anything but frank or pragmatic.

  Catherine Brady

  Desire, Body, Way

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Get Carter is a classic, but it did nothing in the United States. It came out on a double bill with a Frank Sinatra western.

  William Monahan

  United States, Bills, Classic

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Not any specific one, but I was a huge fan of Frank Jacobs, I guess he wrote the plurality of the song parodies for MAD, Sam Hart, a few others, but that was also where I was first exposed to the art form of song parodies.

  Al Yankovic

  Song, Art, Mad

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• There was a lot of camaraderie among the bands. I remember a lot of times when I'd be driving up Laurel Canyon and pass by the house where Frank Zappa was living and I'd just see people out on the porch playing guitars.

  June Millington

  Guitar, People, House

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm a fan of Hugh Kenner, Richard Ellman, Lionel Trilling and Frank Kermode. All these people have taught me how to read - but perhaps, above all literary critics, I'm indebted to Wayne Booth (several people have suggested to me that I'm trying to reinvent "ethical criticism").

  Philip Kitcher

  People, Criticism, Trying

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I like to read to my kids before bed. With my first two sons we went through every Wizard Of Oz book, every original, Frank Baum Oz book.

  Rob Crow

  Book, Kids, Son

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• When most people turn on their TVs, they don't expect a frank discussion of philosophical ideas in their practical context. Or any context.

  David O. Russell

  Philosophical, Ideas, People

  Source: www.ericspitznagel.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Unfortunately I don't have my grandparents, but Mum and I are working quite well together. That's candid, that's frank. Your grandmother is never going to lie to you.

  Rose Leslie

  Lying, Grandmother, Grandparent

  Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. October 22, 2015.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• As far as entertainers, I know I'll sound like a cliché but they don't make 'em, like they use to. Barbra Streisand is one of them, also Frank Sinatra and Tony Bennett. The first theater voice I heard on a record was Ethel Merman and again, they just don't make them like that anymore.

  Hugh Panaro

  Voice, Sound, Ems

  Interview with Pati Buehler, www.broadwayworld.com. June 18, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• , I have a friend living as a woman. But she's almost too "normal," to be quite frank. I'm not relying on her, because "The Jerry Springer Show" has such huge characters. I'm trying to come up with a little more dysfunction than that.

  Max von Essen

  Character, Dysfunction, Trying

  "Max Von Essen: High-Notes in High-Heels". Interview with Eugene Lovendusky, www.broadwayworld.com. January 14, 2008.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Frank Rich, Paul Krugman, Maureen Dowd, a whole host of brilliant, courageous critics say all kinds of things, and he [Barack Obama] treats them with respect. They get invited to the White House. I say the same thing, he talks to me like I'm a Cub Scout.

  Cornel West

  White, House, Courageous

  "Cornel West Reconsiders President Obama". "Talk of the Nation" with Tony Cox, www.npr.org. August 2, 2010.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• My obligation is to release the music the way Frank [Zappa] released it.

  Gail Zappa

  Way, Zappa, Release

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Frank [Zappa] always wanted to do a sound library - he sampled so many great musicians. For piano, for example, he sampled every octave, not just one (that you could just transpose electronically), and he did all different types of attack, with and without pedals, all that kind of stuff.

  Gail Zappa

  Piano, Library, Musician

  Source: therumpus.net

  4 Copy quote

  Show source