Frankie Ballard Quotes

I've always expressed myself on guitar, and so I look at it as another voice that is available to say what you need to say.

Frankie Ballard

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• That's what all art's about - a sense of moving away from boundaries that you can't in real life. Like a dancer is always trying to fly, really - to do something that's just not possible. But you try to do as much as you can within those physical boundaries.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Life
  • Real
  • Trying

• For it would have been better that man should have been born dumb, nay, void of all reason, rather than that he should employ the gifts of Providence to the destruction of his neighbor.

  

  Quintilian
  • Man
  • Dumb
  • Neighbor

• Stanford's law school application wasn't the standard combination of college transcript, LSAT score, and essays. It required a personal sign-off from the dean of your college: You had to submit a form, completed by the dean, attesting that you weren't a loser.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • School
  • Law
  • College

• I'll never forget the modelling shoot I did in the Bahamas on a pink sand beach at Harbour Island. It felt like I'd just landed in paradise; it was so beautiful.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Beautiful
  • Beach
  • Paradise

• I don't think it's a coincidence that 'The War Room' and 'A Perfect Candidate' are films that have been consistently shown and available for rental for 20 years. These are films that are more about the moment in which they were filmed: they also have a great deal to say about larger issues about who we are as a country.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Great
  • Country
  • War

• What does signature mean? Supposedly these are the added touches that make the crime personal to the killer.

  

  Pat Brown
  • Crime
  • Personal
  • Signature

• The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.

  

  Oscar de la Renta
  • Great
  • Fashion
  • Forward

• It was still quite light out of doors, but inside with the curtains drawn and the smouldering fire sending out a dim, uncertain glow, the room was full of deep shadows.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Light
  • Deep
  • Fire

• My grandfather was actually a union organizer at Walt Disney. He was an animator. He used to draw Donald Duck for Walt Disney.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Disney
  • Grandfather
  • Union

• In bourgeois society capital is independent and has individuality, while the living person is dependent and has no individuality.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Society
  • Independent
  • Living

• Satan cannot win. Why not? Because he has denied God's sovereignty and disobeyed God's law. But Moses was told explicitly, God's blessings come only from obedience. Satan will not win because he has abandoned God's tool of dominion, biblical law.

  

  Gary North
  • God
  • Why
  • Law

• The good man is the friend of all living things.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Good
  • Nature
  • Man

• Certainly toward the end of the season, you and I could be in a ballpark and they might say the crowd is 30,000, and we could look around and see that there was no more than 10,000.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • End
  • Look
  • Season

• The biggest challenge is that when people look at low price point products, they essentially invest less money in development, innovation, and new technology. And in order to innovate at a lower price point, and make sustainability attainable to the masses, you have to invest more. But that's counterintuitive for a lot of businesses.

  

  Yves Behar
  • People
  • Money
  • Technology

• There's a nastiness out there that wants to harm me with words. These are my enemies - the ideologues, the populists, the columnists who don't like the fact that I take them on toe-to-toe. What I try to do is tell the truth. It's not the coin of the realm in politics.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Truth
  • Words
  • Politics

• Writers since at least the heyday of Gore Vidal have bemoaned their audience's defection to other forms of entertainment.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Audience
  • Entertainment

• Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.

  

  Patanjali
  • Heart
  • Knowledge
  • Peace

• The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Up

• If we're not able to launch our own people and operate our own spacecraft anymore then, you know, space - whether it should be or not, it's seen as like a harbinger of technology. If you can fly people into space, if you can operate into space, then you've got high technology and if you're the leader of that, then you're the leader in technology. If we lose that on a more or less permanent basis, or for a long period of time, my fear is that it will creep into the national psyche in all areas and we as a nation as a whole will kind of be diminished.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• But though I was initially disappointed at being categorized as an extremist, as I continued to think about the matter I gradually gained a measure of satisfaction from the label. Was not Jesus an extremist for love: “Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you.”

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Love
  • Jesus
  • Satisfaction

• I like to work hard and complete my films one after the other.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Work
  • Like
  • Work Hard

• I'm glad I get to do characters. It's just like a Polaroid shot of whoever the person is, and to me, anyway, that's kind of what life is like. You get a general sense of somebody, and then we're all good, we get it. We understand each other.

  

  Fred Armisen
  • Life
  • Good

• I've always expressed myself on guitar, and so I look at it as another voice that is available to say what you need to say.

  

  Frankie Ballard