Frank Shorter Quotes
Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.
Quotes to Explore
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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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Never speak to an invalid from behind, nor from the door, nor from any distance from him, nor when he is doing anything. The official politeness of servants in these things is so grateful to invalids, that many prefer, without knowing why, having none but servants about them.
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For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
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I still remember my first Giacometti exhibition, and going back to the museum every day, whenever I could, to look again and again at these long, thin stick figures, so beautiful, so graceful. That, I think, was the moment I became really obsessed by art.
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We must become acquainted with our emotional household: we must see our feelings as they actually are, not as we assume they are. This breaks their hypnotic and damaging hold on us.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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Me writing about tennis is like a baker baking bread.
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Most people, from their second album on, find it much harder to be as spontaneously creative as they were with their first couple of records, and some people only have one thing that they do.
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The grandchildren should not bear the debts of the grandparents.
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When I was young, my idea was to become a filmmaker.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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Humour is like violence. They both come to you unexpectedly, and the more unpredictable they both are, the better it gets.
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Only very brave mouse makes nest in cat's ear.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line.
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I don't want to live in an ivory tower, being the songwriter who just turns inward.
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I am genuinely into soul, R&B and hip hop - all these genres that get slapped under the 'soul' genre. That spoke to me more than it did to my punk-rock friends. And punk spoke more to me than it did to my soul friends. I basically didn't fit comfortably in either world.
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The successful artists are completely narcissistic and self-referential. Every song is about them. They talk about themselves. They talk about what they have. They talk about what they're going to do to somebody else. They talk about what they're going to get.
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We thus find ourselves in the situation that the entire theory of man-made global warming-with its repercussions in science, and its important consequences for politics and the global economy-is based on ice core studies that provided a false picture of the atmospheric CO2 levels.
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Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.
