Frank A. Clark Quotes

If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

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• I never really wanted to write and wanted to focus on acting.

  

  Abby Elliott
  • Focus
  • Never
  • Acting

• Once, in Australia, I ate 33 pancakes in 20 minutes, and I only did it because they said a girl could never enter the competition.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Girl
  • Competition
  • Australia

• We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • People
  • Think
  • Marriage

• Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Again
  • Cheese
  • Pasta

• It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.

  

  Ian Millar
  • Discipline
  • Plan
  • Execution

• What works for a man, still does not work for a woman - both in terms of how they see themselves and how we see them.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Work
  • Man
  • Woman

• At school I was always taller than the rest of my class, and because I was an only child, I was comfortable with adults but shy and awkward with other kids. I was quiet, bookish, and in spite of my size, hopeless at sports. In short, I was different. And even in the earliest grades, I got pounded for it.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Different
  • School
  • Kids

• Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the traveling salesman.

  

  Carey Williams
  • Change
  • Daughter
  • Farmer

• I wish my teammates, coaches and the entire Lions organization all the best.

  

  Barry Sanders
  • Wish
  • Best
  • Organization

• You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.

  

  Ma Huateng
  • You
  • Wisdom
  • Need

• And if you want a commander in chief who will fulfill the most solemn obligation of the president to keep this nation safe, then support a candidate who has demonstrated the commitment, the judgment, the experience, the clarity of vision, to identify our enemy, to call it by its name, radical islamic terrorism.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Experience
  • Support
  • Vision

• Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Great
  • Public
  • Acceptable

• That first play I did in New York, Rogelio Martinez's 'When It's Cocktail Time in Cuba,' I played a young Fidel Castro.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Time
  • New York
  • Cocktail

• Everybody wants to get along with everyone else in the sandbox. I'm that kind of kid, you know what I mean? That will never change about me.

  

  Eddie Cahill
  • Know
  • Change
  • Kid

• You have to be very vocal about being willing to fight anyone.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • You
  • Fight
  • Being

• Certainly, imperial power is never peaceably acquired or maintained.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Power
  • Never
  • Maintained

• The sources and research I use for my inspiration aren't your typical sci-fi subjects, but it's really driven by obsession and personal anxiety more than trying to take up the sword and do what's right.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • Trying
  • Inspiration
  • Anxiety

• Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Power
  • Sea
  • Fruit

• I disoriented myself from everything about being a human being and just played and played and played and sang and sang and sang.

  

  Jeff Buckley

• I am both honored and blessed to have had such a wonderful career with the L.A. Galaxy and I am thankful for everything the club, the fans and the community has done for me and my family.

  

  Cobi Jones
  • Family
  • Done
  • Career

• My memory is basically visual: that's what I remember, rooms and landscapes. What I do not remember are what the people in these room were telling me. I never see letters or sentences when I write or read, but only the images they produce.

  

  Karl Ove Knausgaard
  • People
  • Time
  • Remember

• Men who have lived significant lives are men who never waited: not for money, security, ease, or women. Feel what you want to give most as a gift, to your woman and to the world, and do what you can to give it today. Every moment waited is a moment wasted, and each wasted moment degrades your clarity of purpose.

  

  David Deida
  • World
  • Men
  • Women

• If a fellow isn't thankful for what he's got, he isn't likely to be thankful for what he's going to get.

  

  Frank A. Clark
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