Top 100 Being Frank Quotes
#2. I am being frank about myself in this book. I tell of my first mistake on page 850.
Henry Kissinger
#3. When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.
Anatole Broyard
#4. A skunk is better company than a person who prides himself on being 'frank'.
Robert A. Heinlein
#5. I only look at her as a mother, and she doesn't succeed in being that to me.
Anne Frank
#6. A truth may be useful without being understood, indeed without being believed.
Frank Durham
#7. When people ask me about being portrayed onscreen by Leonardo DiCaprio, I always say, 'I love it - no matter how old I get, people are going to think that's what I look like.'
Frank Abagnale
#8. I've seen stand up comedy, and after a while you start to notice that a lot of people are doing things that are like a lot of other people. There can be a bit of a herd mentality, and that's obviously less interesting because there's less going on. I'm just being totally frank with you.
Dylan Moran
#9. The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.
Frank X. Barron
#10. I am very proud of the role I played in getting legal equality for people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender, and in helping get rid of the prejudice by being visible about it, helping to block the conviction of Bill Clinton of impeachment.
Barney Frank
#11. I can't just decide myself what's being built. Someone decides what they want, then I work for them.
Frank Gehry
#12. You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.
Frank Black
#13. When my creative side isn't being fulfilled, I see it affect me in a negative way and I'm not able to become that father/husband/man that I want to be. So it's almost like this dark half that you have to satiate in order to become full, in order to become a good person.
Frank Iero
#14. If life really depends on each gene being as unique as it appears to be, then it is too unique to come into being by chance mutations.
Frank B. Salisbury
#15. I enjoy being involved in making the artwork for albums and stupid stuff like that.
Frank Ocean
#16. You've changed me, and you don't even realize it. Just being with you, near you? It makes me want to be a better person. You make me want to take a risk.
Ella Frank
#17. Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight
Barney Frank
#18. The Tucson speech [of Barack Obama] was brilliant, and I'm so angry at Republicans for jumping on him because you have to give credit. Part of being successful is to give credit to people who you may not disagree with when they do well.
Frank Luntz
#19. What was that old story about how women had a better chance of being abducted by aliens than they did getting married after forty?
Dorothea Benton Frank
#20. He is being dragged into his own desolate abyss, and he know if she stays, he is going to pull her in, too.
Ella Frank
#21. In case I get busy in there and don't say it, thank you." "For?" Tate asked as his eyes softened. Logan squeezed his fingers, and as they started walking inside, he answered, "Always being willing to try.
Ella Frank
#22. Love is not a mood, but a dynamic way of being.
Frank Herbert
#23. But I'm not trying to convince anybody how to vote or how to live. Nobody's ever successfully accused me of being realistic.
Frank Miller
#24. I had always been interested in politics. I had assumed, for a variety of - well, for two reasons, being Jewish and being gay back in the late '50s, early '60s - that I would never be elected or anything, but I would participate as an activist.
Barney Frank
#26. Respect for the truth comes close to being the basis for all morality.
Frank Herbert
#27. We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne Frank
#28. Like Dolores and Frank might quit being little glum reavers out to wreck their world.
Charles Frazier
#29. Men's hearts are being searched ... it is a tremendous sifting time, not only of actions but of inner motives. Nothing can escape the all-searching eye of God.
Frank Bartleman
#30. I don't think of myself as being funny. But life takes strange turns.
Frank Gorshin
#32. I've had enough of this life of waiting for someone's permission.
Frank Lee
#33. Each of us comes into being knowing who he is and what he is supposed to do.' ... 'Small children know,' Leto said. 'It's only after adults have confused them that children hide this knowledge even from themselves.
Frank Herbert
#34. O my enormous piano, you are not like being outdoors
Frank O'Hara
#35. The nicest part is being able to write down all my thoughts and feeling; otherwise, I might suffocate.
Anne Frank
#36. It's not like being a professional basketball player where you're in a big house. Maybe three, four or five guys make a couple million bucks a year, but that's it. The rest of them have second jobs.
Frank Grillo
#37. Some people have the experience of being accused of lying when they do not think that they have lied. Circle a number to show what percentage of the time this happens to you.
[question from the Dissociative Experiences Scale]
Frank W. Putnam
#38. We would rather be in the company of somebody we like than in the company of the most superior being of our acquaintance.
Frank Arthur Swinnerton
#39. Always history is being made; opinions attitudes and institutions change, and there is evolution in the nature of capitalism
Frank Knight
#40. Prove the nay-sayers wrong ... Leave being average to others ... You could be the one who changes the way the world spins
Frank Giampaolo
#41. We're living in an acquisitive capitalist society that is fundamentally anti-family and fundamentally uncomfortable with just enjoying being human. We'd rather shop than live, acquire than love and stare into a screen than hold each other.
Frank Schaeffer
#42. Going before an audience of people who expect you to be funny is tough. Going before an audience that expect you to be boring, and then being a little funny, is much easier. I prefer easier.
Barney Frank
#43. A screenwriter is much like being a fire hydrant with a bunch of dogs lined up around it.
Frank Miller
#44. Being a Milliner's about standing up for what's right, for those who can't stand up for themselves.
Frank Beddor
#45. I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the only way to deal with modern civilization - you can't just swallow it whole.
Frank Zappa
#46. Any attempt to ease guilt by justification is false. That the crimes of another appease none of one's own offenses. That, if one is being truthful, the greater pain is that of the offender. I know now that I would much rather be a victim of violence than a perpetrator
Frank Delaney
#47. Boys will be boys. And even that wouldn't matter if only we could prevent girls from being girls.
Anne Frank
#48. But could you not be mended?" asked the girl. "Oh, yes; but one is never so pretty after being mended, you know," replied the Princess.
L. Frank Baum
#49. People stop trying when there's no benefit for being exceptional and no consequence for being mediocre.
Frank Sonnenberg
#50. Fathering is not something perfect men do, but something that perfects the man.
Frank Pittman
#51. How could I explain the sort of twisted fantasies I'd had to play out to Frank? Most of them I didn't even understand myself. Like being drenched in maple syrup and having acorns thrown at me by a guy wearing nothing but hiking boots.
Nicole Castle
#52. The worse part of being lied to is when you realize you believed it.
Frank Ocean
#53. How can I help being a humbug ... when all these people make me do things that everybody knows can't be done?
L. Frank Baum
#54. Remember what being an adult is: It has nothing to do with money or awards
Frank Abagnale
#56. Not being able to go outside upsets me more than I can say, and I'm terrified our hiding place will be discovered and that we'll be shot. That, of course, is a fairly dismal prospect.
Anne Frank
#57. How strange that so few people ever looked up from the spice long enough to wonder at the near-ideal nitrogen-oxygen-CO2 balance being maintained here in the absence of large areas of plant cover.
Frank Herbert
#58. How I wish I could hug everyone and tell them that it's okay. It's okay to be scared and angry and hurt and selfish. It's part of being human,
Frank Warren
#59. There's no question that the '70s themselves were really wide open. There was just so much being done at that time. Every year, the major studios were commissioning things that they would never touch today or even thought of touching in the 1950s.
Frank Pierson
#60. I just started playing music on the street and walking around with a fiddle, and I think that's kind of when I started being serious - or as serious as it's going to get.
Frank Fairfield
#61. The probability of the people in power being individuals who would dislike the possession and exercise of power is on a level with the probability that an extremely tender-hearted person would get the job of whipping-master in a slave plantation.
Frank Knight
#62. I would like to be able to admire a man's opinions as I would his dog - without being expected to take it home with me.
Frank A. Clark
#63. At this time let us be exceedingly mindful that bearing one another's burdens and sharing one another's suffering is integral to being members of Christ's body.
Frank Griswold
#64. People lose a lot of time being afraid... People lose a lot of time in hating others, and there's no fun in it at all.
L. Frank Baum
#65. Kindness makes a fellow feel good whether it's being done to him or by him.
Frank A. Clark
#66. Congratulations to Saddam Hussein on being elected to another seven-year term. It was very close. He received 99 percent of the vote, and one percent of the vote went for last-minute candidate Frank Lautenberg.
David Letterman
#67. Frank Gresham, when twitted with being a Whig, foreswore the de Courcy family; and then, when ridiculed as having been thrown over by the Tories, foreswore his father's old friends. So
Anthony Trollope
#68. The typical rock fan is not smart enough to know when he is being dumped on.
Frank Zappa
#69. At the moment, as you've probably noticed, I'm going through a spell of being depressed. I couldn't really tell you why it is, but I believe it's just because I'm a coward, and that's what I keep bumping up against.
Anne Frank
#70. Why didn't the Eskimo keep it?" she asked, looking at the Magnet with interest. "He got tired of being loved and longed for some one to hate him. So he gave me the Magnet and the very next day a grizzly bear ate him." "Wasn't he sorry then?" she inquired. "He didn't say," replied the shaggy man,
L. Frank Baum
#71. It's my belief that when you're dealing with the supernatural, the supernatural still has to trump we mortals, it still has to be more powerful than we are. You can't really defeat it. You can live to fight another day but it's very rare that a human being can actually destroy a supernatural force.
Frank Spotnitz
#72. Everything that he was saying sounded incredible, but Frank knew enough about politics to know that governments got away with what they did because they counted on ordinary citizens dismissing events as being too incredible and implausible.
Thrity Umrigar
#73. They tend to forget that nothing in a polarized universe can exist without its opposite being present. -
Frank Herbert
#74. H.M.," said the Woggle-Bug, pompously, "means Highly Magnified; and T.E. means Thoroughly Educated. I am, in reality, a very big bug, and doubtless the most intelligent being in all this broad domain."
"How well you disguise it," said the Wizard.
L. Frank Baum
#75. You just don't have faith!" Frank repeated.
"Well I hope I never get it! It's like being hit by a hammer in the head!
Kim Stanley Robinson
#76. I don't think much of a dance step where the girl looks like she was being carried out of a burning building.
Frank Hubbard
#77. I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own religion that they cannot even work with them in this common cause to which you say they are committed.
Barney Frank
#78. We, who fill our stomachs with nothing but boiled lettuce, raw lettuce, spinach, spinach and more spinach. Maybe we'll end up being as strong as Popeye, though so far I've seen no sign of it!
Anne Frank
#79. I'd heard about people falling in love, and I'd heard about lust. What I had never heard about was this all-consuming need to be inside another human being. I felt this desperate compulsion to become one with him. This was desire. This was to crave. This was what if felt like to want.
Ella Frank
#80. Only realistic flight schedules should be proposed, schedules that have a reasonable chance of being met. If in this way the government would not support them, then so be it. NASA owes it to the citizens from whom it asks support to be frank, honest, and informative.
Richard P. Feynman
#81. I spent 20 years of my career primarily being a writer for hire.
Frank Darabont
#82. Mystification is the psychiatrist's defense against the danger of being found out.
Leonard Roy Frank
#83. The one thing you can do that the audience can't do - all those smart people online in the chat rooms can't do - is deliver a satisfying emotional journey for a human being, for a character.
Frank Spotnitz
#84. I feel like a nineteen forties teenager at a Frank Sinatra concert! (On finally being published)
Katrina D. Miller
#85. I will throw all my best efforts into it, my thoughts and political observations, but ultimately I want to create a narrative that keeps you turning the pages and leaves you with a sense that this thing has a reason for being there.
Frank Miller
#86. She had given her heart permission to be vulnerable, risking the potential of it being broken into a million pieces.
Ella Frank
#87. But being is making; not only large things, a family, a book, a business; but the shape we give this afternoon, a conversation between friends, a meal.
Frank Bidart
#88. The adjectives that are in the book ["Win"] - passion, persuasion, persistence, perfection, prioritization, being people-centered - none of them are as important as principles. Without principles, the language will fail.
Frank Luntz
#89. Being interviewed is one of the most abnormal things that you can do to somebody else. It's two steps removed from the Inquisition.
Frank Zappa
#90. He realized suddenly that it was one thing to see the past occupying the present, but the true test of prescience was to see the past in the future. Things persisted in not being what they seemed.
Frank Herbert
#91. Nowadays the rights of one scumbag are considered far more important than the collective right of 29 others to be taught without being distracted.
Frank Chalk
#92. I know why you picked her," Frank says, still sitting on the grass. "She's like you, sort of. A writer. Unhappy. Wishing she had someone who understood her. That's what killed her- being lonely.
Albert Borris
#93. I'm used to being in the minority. I'm a left-handed gay Jew. I've never felt, automatically, a member of any majority.
Barney Frank
#94. Happiness is often the result of being too busy to be miserable.
Paul Frank Baer
#95. The quest for human knowledge is quintessential element of being human, it's a part of our nature. We are all scientists and it's up to each and everyone of us to embark on our own self journey to inquiry.
Frank Huguenard
#96. What is the point of singing wonderful lyrics if the audience can't understand what is being said or heard?
Frank Sinatra
#97. The more boring a child is, the more the parents, when showing off the child, receive adulation for being good parents - because they have a tame child-creature in their house.
Frank Zappa
#99. Being in school is the best place to be if you are an athlete because you can structure your own time.
Frank Shorter
#100. I no longer worry about being a brilliant conversationalist. I simply try to be a good listener. I notice that people who do that are usually welcome wherever they go
Frank Bettger
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