Ron Franz Quotes & Sayings

With each passing minute comes the chance to dream, create and inspire — Connor McDonald

U.K. citizens fleeing the Middle East and Japan have been allowed to take their animal companions with them on evacuation flights. The U.S. is not so civilized, and that's a blot on our national copybook. — Ingrid Newkirk

There was a fire drill at school the next day. I think I'm more afraid of the fire alarm than I am of a fire. When the fire alarm goes off, you jump out of your skin. Your heart pounds and your ears buzz and your brain melts and all you want to do is get away from that horrible noise. "Get up and walk quickly out the door and to your right," said Mr. Dooley. "Do not pass go and do not collect two hundred dollars," said Donald. I held my hands over my ears to drown out the fire alarm. Outside we stood around waiting for the bell that means we could come back in again. "Yay! The roof is on fire! No more school!" someone joked. "Anybody got a match?" said someone else. Mr. Dooley said that wasn't funny. He said if there really was a fire, we'd be smart to know what to do. — Phyllis Reynolds Naylor

Even dirty water has a bath — R.W. Erskine

If you want to keep getting what you're getting, keep doing what you're doing. — Les Brown

My environmentalism reared its head around the age of ten when I inexplicably become obsessed with littering. For some reason I considered it my personal responsibility to pick up litter wherever I found it and yell at anyone I saw contributing to the problem (much to the horror of my mother). I was a ten-year-old on a mission to clean up the streets! But it was years later when I became a mother myself that concern for my kids' future really ignited my passion and set me on my course. Once I started reading and educating myself, there was no turning back. — Laurie David

The real answer is always found not in the heart but in the bank. — Richard Castle

If you try to make interesting films, you're going to be disappointed most of the time. I choose just not to look at it that way. — Edward Norton

We live our lives based on who we think we are. — Myles Munroe

It's important for all people, and not just people in bands, to speak out on social justice issues. That means journalists or plumbers have just as much of a responsibility to do that as artists. — Serj Tankian

People are mystery as far you go deeper as more mystery you can find. New generation, new tricks, new misteries, new problems... people are hard to be understand as deeper you go as more missunderstand the stuff. — Deyth Banger

No two journeys are alike. Nobody can pretend to know the journey another person takes to achieve his dreams. — Georges St-Pierre

He had fled the claustrophobic confines of his family. He'd successfully kept Jan Burres and Wayne Westerberg at arm's length, flitting out of their lives before anything was expected of him. And now he'd slipped painlessly out of Ron Franz's life as well. — Jon Krakauer

The white boots with unicorns printed on them because, even though I'm fifteen, I still think the unicorn would be the world's greatest animal. — Leila Sales

He went up to the globe and gave it a spin. It emitted a faint creak and moved about one inch, bringing into his purview a daddy long legs which had died on it in latitude 44. — John Galsworthy

Getting paid for being laid, guess that's the name of the game. — Elton John