Frank Mertens (Frank Sorgatz) Quotes

I am shy and I don't like to talk. I prefer to look and listen. Marian and Bernhard talk quite enough.

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• I look forward to their convention and look forward to hearing the President talk about what he will do for the next four years. He hasn't done it up to this point.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Up
  • Done
  • Look

• Second, this epic tale allows the audience to actually listen to the Native Americans and receive their wisdom. Spielberg conveys the respect for Native Americans that is normally lacking in Western films.

  

  Beau Bridges
  • Respect
  • Wisdom
  • Listen

• What I do for a living is listen.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Living
  • Listen

• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Up
  • Children
  • Talk

• Know or listen to those who know.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Know
  • Motivational
  • Listen

• I'm sorry; I ruin people's interviews because I just talk about rubbish.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • People
  • Sorry
  • Talk

• The less I talk about being black, the better.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Black
  • Better
  • Talk

• Well, it'd certainly be fascinating if we discovered that gays were better at being married than heterosexuals are. Talk about irony.

  

  Gail Collins
  • Better
  • Talk
  • Irony

• What 'Deadwood' did was to talk about how capitalism started, how civilised society came in, and how that brought its own problems.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Society
  • Talk
  • Capitalism

• I've learned not to hide behind a veil of irony - to talk about my work in a more honest way.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Work
  • Talk
  • Irony

• Only votes talk, everything else walks.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Everything
  • Talk
  • Only

• I can talk a lot and not reveal anything; I would make a great politician.

  

  Imelda May
  • Great
  • Talk
  • Reveal

• I'm terribly, horribly shy.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Shy
  • Terribly
  • Horribly

• Listen, a lot of religions have fundamentalists.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Listen
  • Religions
  • Lot

• We go around and talk about what are each of the kids most proud of from the previous week.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Kids
  • Proud
  • Week

• Crystallographers believed in X-ray results, which are of course very accurate. But the x-rays are limited, and electron microscopy filled the gap, and so the discovery of quasicrystals could have been discovered only by electron microscopy, and the community of crystallographers, for several years, was not willing to listen.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Community
  • Listen
  • Discovery

• I don't even listen to music when I'm off tour.

  

  Vince Neil Mötley Crüe
  • Music
  • Listen
  • Tour

• If one could only teach the English how to talk, and the Irish how to listen, society here would be quite civilized.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Society
  • Teach
  • Listen

• We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Always
  • Talk
  • Forest

• I'm never going to be able to leave Mexico, really. It would be foolish of me to do it. I would be wasting such a great opportunity that the accident of life, or destiny, gave me, which is to be Mexican. If we would make 'Lord of the Rings' analogies, I think Mexico City is Middle-earth. That's where the fight of humanity is.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Life
  • Great
  • Earth

• When you get divorced, you have to go through this awful thing of listing everything you own. When you actually sit down and write the list, you realize that the only good investments are art and property.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Good
  • Art
  • Write

• It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Friendship
  • Sorrow
  • Resistance

• I am shy and I don't like to talk. I prefer to look and listen. Marian and Bernhard talk quite enough.

  

  Frank Mertens Alphaville
  • Listen
  • Talk
  • Shy