Frank Quotes · Page 16

Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.

— Cecil Beaton

With the possible exception of clothes, beauty salons and Frank Sinatra, there are few subjects all women agree upon.

— Groucho Marx

There is something so pure and frank and noble about Him that to doubt His sincerity would be like doubting the brightness…

— Anonymous

Frank Sinatra took me to a whole new planet. I worked with him until he passed away in '98. He left me…

— Quincy Jones

I want to become a person that is frank and pure with a healthy energy, a person with an unpredictable charm who…

— Kwon Yuri

We didn't really differ [with Frank Moore Cross] because we have the same love of the text. We share that love.

— Elie Wiesel

“When Vincent didn’t understand something, he would figure it out. When Frank didn’t understand something, he’d light it on fire.”

— Nicole Castle

I think William Shakespeare was the wisest human being I ever heard of. To be perfectly frank, though, that's not saying much.

— Kurt Vonnegut

How different South Africa’s cricketing achievements, and indeed the future of the country itself, might have been if racism had not denied…

— Anonymous

People like Frank Zappa and Bryan Ferry knew we could pick and choose from the history of music, stick things together looking…

— Brian Eno

There was this little shaggy dog on it, and Frank Weatherwax was working the dog. One day we were all sitting around,…

— Tommy Rettig

I usually get involved in the interviews about the animators and the filmmaking in general, because I had a chance.I got to…

— Andreas Deja

That's what [Frank] Sinatra did. He was the first artist to come out in a major way against anti-Semitism and racial bigotry.…

— Robert Davi

Howard Chaykin was one of the few who dared to make mainstream comics different back in the eighties; it was guys like…

— Garth Ennis

My grandfather is from Ireland. His name is Florence McCarthy. He moved to New York in 1920. They used to beat him…

— Greg Fitzsimmons

I met the [Frank] Sinatra family for a [performance] I did for his hundredth birthday and one of the first things Sinatra's…

— Michael Buble

Frank liked me because I went nuts on the piano using feet, head, whatever I could find to bang on the piano.

— George Duke

The New York that Frank Sinatra sang about, people will never know that place. The New Orleans that Louis Armstrong sang about…

— Blake Lively

She walked quickly through the darkness with the frank stride of someone who was at least certain that the forest, on this…

— Terry Pratchett

But my promoter Frank Warren knows what he is doing, and has been through this cycle many times with other fighters.

— Billy Joe Saunders

I was a caddy. I also worked as a bouncer, selling Christmas trees at Frank's Nursery and before that, selling what they…

— Joseph Bruce

We need more guys that are solid talents all around and Frank Mir proved himself and I don't think anyone is going…

— Shawn Tompkins

White people, wake up before it is too late. Do you want Negroes working beside you, your wife and your daughters, in…

— Jesse Helms

I would have told him that I appreciated his friendship through the years and that I had learned a lot from him.…

— Jimmy Carl Black

You see, Frank found out the hard way that the dark things lurking in the night don’t haunt old houses or abandoned…

— David Wong

This willingness to be frank and plain about the way that the world is, is a good first step. But that doesn't…

— Ian Bogost

I can't stay mad at Pope Frank. I just can't. It's a funny situation that I like the pope and Mel Gibson…

— Bill Maher

“We must clean the lens of our hearts to see the state of our souls. However, too often the former is too…

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

I have heard some stuff that might be influenced by my records, but it's usually pretty wacky and off-the-wall, which is kind…

— Beck

It's hard work, 'Doctor Who,' but let's be frank about it, I'm fortunate to be rewarded in the ways that I am.…

— Matt Smith

Chicago is an exciting place which renews itself. The workshop system encourages close reading and frank discussions of papers and ideas.

— James Heckman

What makes Gucci Mane Gucci Mane is like what made Frank Sinatra Frank Sinatra - it's just him. He's trap's Frank Sinatra.

— Harmony Korine

I'm sure coach Frank Rijkaard will want the Dutch to go on and score a fourth now - although obviously they'll have…

— Angus Loughran

I think one of the odd things about public life, coming from the outside, is that people seem to be paranoid. Maybe…

— Rory Stewart

I knew that we'd have a big following because the graphic novel [ The Walking Dead] is so popular, and I knew…

— Laurie Holden

I'm trying to do what Frank O'Hara did and remind myself there there's a lot of good stuff. I write about New…

— Frankie Cosmos

I had been reading a fabulous book [The Man Verdi, by Frank Walker] about [Giuseppe] Verdi, whom I adore.

— Maurice Sendak

I guess when it comes to this privileged White racist feminist movement they respect someone who treats them rough: John Wayne. Frank…

— Ishmael Reed

Of all the multitudes who throughout history have spoken for human dignity in times of great suffering and loss, no voice is…

— John F. Kennedy

A man is more frank and sincere with his emotions than a woman. We girls, I'm afraid, have a tendency to hide…

— Marilyn Monroe