Bob Frankston Quotes

Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article.

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• So, I get a kick out of working with the media.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Working
  • Media
  • Out

• I'm very picky, and I'm never 100% happy with the work I do; I hate watching myself and hearing my voice.

  

  Samantha Mumba
  • Work
  • Happy
  • Hate

• I'll probably always be 'Timothy Spall's son' and it's something I'm proud of. Maybe one day as well as that, they'll say of Timothy Spall that 'He's Rafe Spall's dad'.

  

  Rafe Spall
  • Dad
  • Day
  • Proud

• I say that what one loves is best: The midnight fastness of the heart.

  

  Allen Tate
  • Heart
  • Best
  • Loves

• I think in future people will take television in eyedrop form. All media will be in eyedrops.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • Future
  • Television

• I don't like to give the sob story: growing up in a single-parent home, never knew my father, my mother never worked, and when friends came over I'd hide the welfare cheese. Yo, I failed ninth grade three times, but I don't think it was necessarily 'cause I'm stupid. I didn't go to school. I couldn't deal.

  

  Marshall Bruce Mathers III Bad Meets Evil'
  • School
  • Home
  • Father

• A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.

  

  Syd Barrett Pink Floyd
  • People
  • Photography
  • Films

• I've always had that knack for staying pretty even keel and the more the situation gets tense the more I see things clearly and I think that's just a knack that I've always had.

  

  Tiger Woods
  • Knack

• To understand ourself, we must understand our "selves," or the parts of us that motivate our thoughts, decisions, and behaviors.

  

  Bill Crawford
  • Thoughts
  • Decisions
  • Behaviors

• Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

  

  Audrey Niffenegger
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Lose

• Because the truth holds the greatest magic, the greatest beauty, and sometimes the greatest danger.

  

  Esther M. Friesner
  • Truth
  • Magic
  • Danger

• Once more their weird laughter of the loons comes to my ear, the distance lends it a musical, melancholy sound. For a dangerous ledge off the lighthouse island floats in on the still air the gentle trolling of a warning bell as it swings on the rocking buoy; it might be tolling for the passing of summer and sweet weather with that persistent, pensive chime.

  

  Celia Thaxter
  • Sweet
  • Summer
  • Distance

• As an actor myself, I know we go where the work is, but I think it's sad the Lyric haven't found any homegrown talent.

  

  Ian Beattie
  • Work
  • Myself
  • Sad

• Childhood vaccines are one of the great triumphs of modern medicine. Indeed, parents whose children are vaccinated no longer have to worry about their child's death or disability from whooping cough, polio, diphtheria, hepatitis, or a host of other infections.

  

  Ezekiel Emanuel
  • Children
  • Triumphs
  • Vaccinate

• John Mayer and Jack Johnson are two of my all-time favorites. I love Colbie Caillat and really cool, beach-y, guitar, acoustic type music.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Time
  • Music
  • Love

• For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • World
  • Dream
  • Efficiency

• Reusing pieces of code is like picking off sentences from other people's stories and trying to make a magazine article.

  

  Bob Frankston
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