Frank Mcgrath Quotes & Sayings

Before I'd written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers - when you've got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other people's ability to do that. — Joan Didion

He will show you how, during the springtime of life, illusions, innocent hopes, silver threads of gossamer, descend from heaven and return there without ever touching the earth. — Honore De Balzac

Could you defeat a cloud, a dream, a poem? — Peter Straub

I never talk much about my family, but my grandfather was friendly with these guys, with magicians and ventriloquists on the highest levels, and I was just ... interested. — Ricky Jay

We grew to our present size almost against ourselves. It was not a deliberately planned commercial venture in the sense that I sat down and said that we were going to make ourselves into a huge financial octopus. We evolved by necessity. We did not sit down and say to ourselves, 'How can we make a big pile of dough?' It just happened. — Walt Disney

My dark secret is I've always wished I was Gatsby. As heartbroken as he was and as horrible a fate as he endured, I admired that he loved. It's a difficult thing to do. — Sarah Noffke

Why should we assume the faults of our friend, or wife, or father, or child, because they sit around our hearth, or are said to have the same blood? — Ralph Waldo Emerson

When you're in government, of course, you have protection and you have people who are looking out for your wellbeing, but you can't live in a state of fear. If you do, you're not going to do your job very well and you're going to give yourself high blood pressure, which probably isn't worth it. — Condoleezza Rice

We've prosecuted police, dozens of them over the years. — Robert P. McCulloch

That is the only sure way of knowing we have made someone happy: making someone miserable by our leaving them. — Michelle Franklin

In the wild, a mother elephant and her daughter will stay together until one or the other dies. — Jodi Picoult

Miracles can come and pass, we need to create space in our lives to invite and receive them. — Gary Edward Gedall

I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation — Franklin D. Roosevelt

If we desire that there be no boasting except in the cross, then we must live near the cross-indeed we must live on the cross. — John Piper