Franklin Templeton Quotes & Sayings

Staring up at the sky on a bright, sunny day makes me dream and gives me ideas. — Marc Jacobs

He found a new way to cover up his bad breath. He holds up his arms. — Rodney Dangerfield

I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice! — Mother Jones

DiMaggio's grace came to represent more than athletic skill in those years. To the men who wrote about the game, it was a talisman, a touchstone, a symbol of the limitless potential of the human individual. That an Italian immigrant, a fisherman's son, could catch fly balls the way Keats wrote poetry or Beethoven wrote sonatas was more than just a popular marvel. It was proof positive that democracy was real. On the baseball diamond, if nowhere else, America was truly a classless society. DiMaggio's grace embodied the democracy of our dreams. — David Halberstam

If you want to know what we are, look at the men reading books, searching in the dark pages of history for the lost word, the key to the mystery of the living peace. We are factory hands, field hands, mill hands, searching, building and molding structures. We are doctors, scientists, chemists discovering and eliminating disease, hunger and antagonism. We are soldiers, Navy men, citizens, guarding the imperishable dreams of our fathers to live in freedom. We are the living dream of dead men. We are the living spirit of free men. — Carlos Bulosan

Twitter, for all its good, is a hate amplifier. — Kathy Sierra

When before the beauty of a sunset or a mountain, you pause and exclaim, 'Ah,' you are participating in divinity. — Joseph Campbell

Wishful thinking is one thing, and reality another. — Jalal Talabani

Book lovers never go to bed alone. — Various

Music that paints nothing is only noise. — Jean Le Rond D'Alembert

Sister Evangelina had plenty of homespun advice to offer her patients: "Where-ere you be, let your wind go free", to which the reply was always chanted: "In Church and Chapel let it rattle". — Jennifer Worth

Only when you are dangerous are you truly equal to the world. — Daniel Hecht

I feel like a failure." The expression comes so naturally that we forget it is a figure of speech: the language of business applied to the soul. — Scott A. Sandage

WITHOUT GRACE, MINIMALISM IS ANOTHER METRIC FOR PERFECTION. Chasing — Erin Loechner

Sometimes to write you need to do more than just appear at your desk-you need to take care of the part of you that dreams and imagines and creates. Reading can usually do this for writers, but sometimes you also need to watch films, listen to music, go to an art museum, or see a play. Or just sit outside and soak up the sky. — Barbara Abercrombie