Frank Shankwitz Quotes & Sayings

Power, no matter what kind of power it is, without a foundation in truth, is a dictatorship, more or less and in one way or another, for it is always based on man's fear of the social responsibility and personal burden that "freedom" entails. — Wilhelm Reich

I'm writing a book. I'm almost finished. I numbered the pages. Now all I have to do is fill them in. — Steven Wright

Jordan ran the London marathon to help raise money for the blind. After jogging that far with her body, I'm surprised she hasn't joined them! — Frankie Boyle

I talk a lot about taking risks, and then I follow that up very quickly by saying, 'Take prudent risks.' — Irene Rosenfeld

Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again. — Anne Frank

Well, heaven forgive him! and forgive us all!
Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall:
Some run from brakes of ice, and answer none:
And some condemned for a fault alone. — William Shakespeare

This was not a fearie tale. This was not the movies. This was life. It hurt more. It was excruciating. It was excruciatingly beautiful. — Francesca Lia Block

Looking at each other, something made sense that hadn't made sense before...I still don't know what it is or was about him, about us together (his pronunciation), that made us bind so decisively, two indecisive people so clear, for a time, about each other. — Catherine Lacey

She didn't want to believe the pretty gentleman capable of such violence, but she had learned the hard way that pretty gentlemen were often the worst of the lot. — Kady Cross

I expect you have seen someone put a a lighted match to a bit of newspaper which is propped up in a grate against an unlit fire. And for a second nothing seems to have happened; and then you notice a tiny steak of flame creeping along the edged of the newspaper. It was like that now. — C.S. Lewis

We have to develop the whole system of early stage investors and a tax system around it. For every Google that has come on the scene, there are hundred entrepreneurs who never did. — Jamshyd Godrej

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels. — George Bernard Shaw

To me, Jeff Zucker is synonymous with winning. He's an incredible news executive. — Soledad O'Brien