Barney Frank Quotes
It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
Quotes to Explore
-
Work on good prose has three steps: a musical stage when it is composed, an architectonic one when it is built, and a textile one when it is woven.
-
I never was good at learning things. I did just enough work to pass. In my opinion it would have been wrong to do more than was just sufficient, so I worked as little as possible.
-
After six years without seeing one, I love just seeing a smile - every smile I see gives me hope.
-
The first thing people say to me when they meet me is, 'You're so much skinner in person.' You have to live up to these standards that are so unrealistic. I try to tune it out.
-
The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
-
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
-
If I were president, I am not sure that I would offer Ed Rendell the job of chief of staff.
-
Negroes must be free in order to be equal, and they must be equal in order to be free... Men cannot win freedom unless they win equality. They cannot win equality unless they win freedom.
-
If the plane moves, some turbulence, I am nervous flyer.
-
I haven't done as many films as I would have liked.
-
Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.
-
The success of Torn was a bit too much for me. I took a year off and was still scared to start the second album.
-
New Hampshire is moving in the right direction because we have shown time and time again that we can work across the aisle to solve problems.
-
Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
-
When the American spirit was in its youth, the language of America was different: Liberty, sir, was the primary object.
-
Character development is what I value most as a reader of fiction. If an author can manage to create the sort of characters who feel fully real, who I find myself worrying about while I'm walking through the grocery store aisles a week later, that to me is as close to perfection as it gets.
-
Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.
-
Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
-
We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
-
I didn't have any particular talent for fiction. I took a class in college.
-
One of my strengths is I have a pretty even temperament. I don't get too high when it's high and I don't get too low when it's low. And what I found during the course of the presidency, and I suppose this is true in life, is that investments and work that you make back here sometimes take a little longer than the 24-hour news cycle to bear fruit.
-
My retirement is both voluntary and involuntary. One reason, and this is voluntary, is the impact of television. All old movies are turning up on television, and frankly, making pictures doesn't interest me anymore. Another reason is that the film industry is in a declining state.
-
I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood. Don't degrade me into the position of giving you useful information. Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
-
It is, of course, further indication that a fundamentalist right has really taken over much of the Republican Party, People might cite George Bush as proof that you can be totally impervious to the effects of Harvard and Yale education.
