To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.
~By Hugh Laurie ~
Has President Bush exceeded his constitutional authority or acted illegally in authorizing wiretaps without a warrant? Benjamin Franklin would not have thought so.
~By Pete du Pont ~
I am an enthusiast, but not a crank in the sense that I have some pet theories as to the proper construction of a flying machine. I wish to avail myself of all that is already known and then, if possible, add my mite to help on the future worker who will attain final success.
~By Wilbur Wright ~
I encountered among my comrades the most varied human traits, from frankness to reserve, from goodness, uprightness and kindness, to brutality and baseness.
~By Georg Brandes ~
To begin to think with purpose, is to enter the ranks of those strong ones who only recognize failure as one of the pathways to attainment.
~By James Allen ~
Frank Lloyd Wright... his things were beautiful but not very functional.
~By David Byrne ~
People told me, when I was coming through the ranks, that a mark of a great actor is one who deals with the period of unemployment as well as they deal with the period of employment.
~By Claudia Black ~
Since Social Security was established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935 to ensure economic security for American workers, poverty among American seniors has dramatically declined.
~By Steve Israel ~
Socially I never was an outsider. I have never thought of the conflict element before frankly, but perhaps it was wanting to belong, and at the same time wanting to retain one's own personality.
~By Carlisle Floyd ~
I was the last one to screen test for The Hardy Boys. I'd like to play that's not as clean-cut as Frank Hardy. I play him as straight as possible.
~By Parker Stevenson ~
The strongest predictor of unhappiness is anyone who has had a mental illness in the last 10 years. It is an even stronger predictor of unhappiness than poverty - which also ranks highly.
~By Polly Toynbee ~
But one does not make living writing poetry unless you're a professor, and one frankly doesn't get a lot of girls as a poet.
~By Jeffery Deaver ~
I don't want to write formula. I don't want to crank these books out like sausages. Every book is different, which takes a hell of a lot of ingenuity on my part.
~By Sue Grafton ~
When Richie Cunningham drank too many beers, his parents sat him down and explained their concerns. If you live on this earth, you find out that we are all the same.
~By Henry Winkler ~
Frankly, if people aren't going to cast me because I'm queer, than I don't want to work with them.
~By Anthony Rapp ~
Frankly, I mean, sometimes the interpretations I've seen on some of the songs that I've written are a lot more interesting than the input that I put in.
~By David Bowie ~
I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood.
~By Holly Johnson ~
I find it both fascinating and disconcerting when I discover yet another person who believes that writing can't be taught. Frankly, I don't understand this point of view.
~By Elizabeth George ~
By then I was in Brooklyn and drank my way through that summer. I stopped when I got sick of that and got a job at the Strand bookstore, which was a little better than the tax job.
~By Robert Quine ~
The others don't like my interviews. And frankly, I don't care much for theirs.
~By Freddie Mercury ~
It's hard for women to talk about these things, and for the doctors to really talk about it too, and to even have the knowledge of what's going on. That's why I'm doing this and urging women to speak out and talk to their doctors frankly.
~By Cybill Shepherd ~
Jackson, however, persevered. He joined the Franklin Debating Society, an institution that had been in existence over fifty years, and had enrolled in its membership some of the ablest men in Virginia.
~By Daniel H. Hill ~
I'm used to working alone. Frankly with some of the actors I've worked with, I've felt like I was working alone.
~By Claudia Christian ~
Frank Sinatra is the only one that went from teen idol to superstar.
~By Leif Garrett ~
Frank liked me because I went nuts on the piano using feet, head, whatever I could find to bang on the piano.
~By George Duke ~
Who included me among the ranks of the human race?
~By Joseph Brodsky ~
I want to keep audiences off balance, so they don't know who I am or how to take me. If I duck and weave, as Frank Bruno might say, I'll have a longer shelf life.
~By Robert Carlyle ~
I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.
~By Karl Lagerfeld ~
The value and rank of every art is in proportion to the mental labor employed in it, or the mental pleasure in producing it.
~By Joshua Reynolds ~
I know why we can't have a frank discussion with our policymakers - if you're in the government or in law enforcement you cannot acknowledge that drugs are anything but inherently evil and morally wrong.
~By Steven Soderbergh ~
I was so delirious that I drank a glass of water, thought it wine and got glorious drunk.
~By Will M. Cook ~
You know, I think, people of all stripes in California, Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, liberals, frankly, as I have traveled the state, the number one issue is jobs. And they are looking for which candidate can get the economy back on track.
~By Meg Whitman ~
He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast.
~By Frank McCourt ~
In the frank expression of conflicting opinions lies the greatest promise of wisdom in governmental action.
~By Louis D. Brandeis ~
How I longed to see these things; how I longed to see the Liberty Bell and walk on the streets where Thomas Jefferson, Tom Paine and Benjamin Franklin had walked.
~By Burl Ives ~
If they have covered your face with latex, you have to control yourself mentally so you won't think. If you start thinking, you will succumb to panic. I had a bit of a cold, and frankly I didn't have a good time.
~By Meg Tilly ~
There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind.
~By Wole Soyinka ~
I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.
~By Shimon Peres ~
Jesus picked up twelve men from the bottom ranks of business and forged them into an organisation that conquered the world.
~By Bruce Barton ~
I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life... It's a religious thing.
~By Marty Robbins ~
Frankly, my politics are pretty left of left.
~By Chris Cooper ~
You know honestly I think there's a Dracula, a Wolf Man, and a Frankenstein's Monster in all of us. They are sides of our own character so that's why I think we can relate to them in terms of a 'I know how that feels' kind of thing.
~By Richard Roxburgh ~
Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world.
~By Mike Fitzpatrick ~
I drank the silence of God from a spring in the woods.
~By Georg Trakl ~
I actually started singing those songs six or seven years ago, when I was an opening act for Frank Sinatra.
~By Pia Zadora ~
Benjamin Franklin said there were only two things certain in life: death and taxes. But I'd like to add a third certainty: trash. And while some in this room might want to discuss reducing taxes, I want to talk about reducing trash.
~By Ruth Ann Minner ~
I wanted to be that cranky old guy that stands on his porch and yells at the neighborhood kids.
~By Robert Lansing ~
Rank does not confer privilege or give power. It imposes responsibility.
~By Peter Drucker ~
I always assume that democracy is the only good form of government, quite frankly, and democracy is always to be preferred.
~By Jeane Kirkpatrick ~
Meanwhile, the Ice Storm was still in development, And that was something I really wanted to do, and frankly I don't think I was ready to do a big production like this.
~By Ang Lee ~
I don't know how Frank presented the old Mothers, since I never read the book. There might be some opinions on what he said, but I - or anyone else - could not make any corrections to anything Frank did.
~By Jimmy Carl Black ~
In true education, anything that comes to our hand is as good as a book: the prank of a page- boy, the blunder of a servant, a bit of table talk - they are all part of the curriculum.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
My employer was never at any time aware of anything in my past beyond the writing I did, because, frankly, it isn't relevant to the job I was asked to do, which was to be a reporter.
~By Jeff Gannon ~
In all ranks of life the human heart yearns for the beautiful; and the beautiful things that God makes are his gift to all alike.
~By Harriet Beecher Stowe ~
As far as film goes, I enjoy all Hollywood films and all Horror films like The Bride of Frankenstein, which also might be my favorite. I like 60's and 70's Italian and Spanish Horror films.
~By Johnny Ramone ~
If their were more Franklin operations it could help the cause much more than right wing activity.
~By Tom Metzger ~
Frankly, these days, without a theory to go with it, I can't see a painting.
~By Tom Wolfe ~
Meeting Franklin Roosevelt was like opening your first bottle of champagne; knowing him was like drinking it.
~By Winston Churchill ~
For drink, there was beer which was very strong when not mingled with water, but was agreeable to those who were used to it. They drank this with a reed, out of the vessel that held the beer, upon which they saw the barley swim.
~By Xenophon ~
I've always wanted to be a spy, and frankly I'm a little surprised that British intelligence has never approached me.
~By Elizabeth Hurley ~
Frankly I've never really subscribed to these adjectives tagging me as an 'icon', 'superstar', etc. I've always thought of myself as an actor doing his job to the best of his ability.
~By Amitabh Bachchan ~
You can be a rank insider as well as a rank outsider.
~By Robert Frost ~
Frankly, I don't mind not being President. I just mind that someone else is.
~By Edward Kennedy ~
Whatever ambivalence I felt about my own career, Frankie more than made up for it with his ambition and tenacity.
~By Annette Funicello ~
There is neither rank nor station nor prerogative in the republic of the grave.
~By John James Ingalls ~
Benjamin Franklin may have discovered electricity, but it was the man who invented the meter who made the money.
~By Earl Wilson ~
I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location.
~By Ernst Mayr ~
I'm not sure it's the stimulus money that will necessarily allow the economy to recover. It will help to fortify our budgets, frankly, to ensure that there isn't as much backsliding in the areas of education and healthcare, for example.
~By Jon Huntsman, Jr. ~
There's a real danger in doing a sequel. There are some benefits, but that all hinges on how well you execute. Quite frankly, most sequels don't execute well.
~By Donnie Wahlberg ~
Even at the United Nations, where legend has it that the building was designed so that there could be no corner offices, the expanse of glass in individual offices is said to be a dead giveaway as to rank. Five windows are excellent, one window not so great.
~By Enid Nemy ~
McVeigh's lawyer got him the death penalty, which, quite frankly, I could have done.
~By Jon Stewart ~
What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.
~By Nora Ephron ~
To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.
~By John F. Kennedy ~
Israel ranks her priorities in the following way: security, land, and water.
~By Bashar al-Assad ~
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
~By Herbert Spencer ~
Mass consumption, advertising, and mass art are a corporate Frankenstein; while they reinforce the system, they also undermine it.
~By Ellen Willis ~
I'm not saying it isn't frustrating that my films haven't gotten a bigger release, but I'm really happy with them and if you just keep cranking and eventually, if you have a certain sensibility, some of your movies will hit and some just won't.
~By Alex Winter ~
People have always said - those words, 'too conservative,' is fairly relative. I'm sure that they probably said that about Thomas Jefferson and George Washington and Benjamin Franklin.
~By Sharron Angle ~
When friends stop being frank and useful to each other, the whole world loses some of its radiance.
~By Anatole Broyard ~
These days I have to be extra nice in stores. It never fails that whenever I look as bad as I can possibly look or I am sort of cranky because the store is out of something, that is precisely the time when someone one will recognize me and say: 'I really like your show.'
~By Lauren Graham ~
A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.
~By Earl Weaver ~
I frankly don't think it's going to be a successful war on terrorism until law enforcement agencies like the FBI are willing to share with other law enforcement agencies. If they can't share information, there's no way this war can be won.
~By Patty Hearst ~
Frankly, Governor Romney in his career has created more jobs than the entire Obama cabinet combined, so he could actually talk about it.
~By Newt Gingrich ~
Every pioneer and musician who could carry a musket went into the ranks. Even the sick and foot-sore, who could not keep up in the march, came up as soon as they could find their regiments, and took their places in line of battle, while it was battle, indeed.
~By Joshua Chamberlain ~
So, you know, I think that Democrats are being more successful in Congress and I'm really going to be proud of the role I will play tomorrow as ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee when this bill passes.
~By Jane Harman ~
Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly, and try another. But by all means, try something.
~By Franklin D. Roosevelt ~
We give each other a hard time, but no pranks.
~By George Eads ~
I guess he wanted to see a little more sexual activity because in real life, in bed I think less is more and let the woman come to me. Frankly, I don't even need a woman there.
~By Garry Shandling ~
I have fed purely upon ale; I have eat my ale, drank my ale, and I always sleep upon ale.
~By George Farquhar ~
I know I'm not going to sing like Aretha Franklin or Elvis Presley or any of those people.
~By George Thorogood ~
When I hear that I realize how quickly time passes and how everybody goes on their journeys and they're always unbelievable and they never go where you think they're going to take you and, quite frankly, it also makes me feel a little old.
~By Rob Lowe ~
I hadn't been in Vegas 20 minutes when I got word that the bookmakers were offering three to one that Frank wouldn't show for my wedding.
~By Sammy Davis, Jr. ~
Nobody's irreplaceable, including me. I think for too long we've had a cult of personality in this company and in this industry, and frankly, I'd like to see that diminish.
~By Bill Ford ~
When you hear somebody justifying a war by citing the Almighty, I get a little worried, frankly.
~By Ron Reagan ~
Short-story writing requires an exquisite sense of balance. Novelists, frankly, can get away with more. A novel can have a dull spot or two, because the reader has made a different commitment.
~By Lynn Abbey ~
I've heard that Alfred Hitchcock said that by the time he was ready to shoot a film, he didn't even want to do it any more because he'd already had all of the fun of working it out. It's the same thing with these Frank comics.
~By Jim Woodring ~
I had a lousy marriage and I drank too much.
~By Pat Travers ~
The fact that the price of gasoline has declined some in recent weeks must not allow Americans to be lulled into a false sense of security. Energy independence must rank along with border security as the top priorities of the United States.
~By Virgil Goode ~
Some of my other heroes around that time were, oddly enough, Frank Sinatra, Nat Cole and people like that - I was always more inclined to listen to ballads.
~By William Bell ~
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