Ze Frank Quotes

Laziness may appear attractive, but work gives satisfaction.

The mystery of life isn't a problem to solve, but a reality to experience.

To build up a future, you have to know the past.

Survival of the world depends on our sharing what we have, and working together. If we don't the whole world will die. First the planet, and next the people.

Don't feel sad over someone who gave up on you, feel sorry for them because they gave up on someone who would have never given up on them.

You want proof there's a God? Look outside, watch a sunset.

An architect's most useful tools are an eraser at the drafting board, and a wrecking bar at the site.

I suppose there are people who can pass up free guacamole, but they're either allergic to avocado or too joyless to live.

Take what comes your way. Do the best with it. Be responsible as you can and something good will happen.

A heart is not judged by how much you love; but by how much you are loved by others.

There's a big difference between kneeling down and bending over.

Birds fly Over The Rainbow. Why then, oh why can't I? If happy little bluebirds fly beyond the rainbow, why oh why can't I?

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

Just remember; someone loves everything you hate about yourself.

A man doesn't know what happiness is until he's married. By then it's too late.

As far as rearing children goes, the basic idea I try to keep in mind is that a child is a person. Just because they happen to be a little shorter than you doesn't mean they are dumber than you.

I don't think my wife likes me very much, when I had a heart attack she wrote for an ambulance.

Gray skies are just clouds passing over.

I firmly believe that nature brings solace in all troubles.

A composer is a guy who goes around forcing his will on unsuspecting air molecules, often with the assistance of unsuspecting musicians.

I don't like to say I have given my life to art. I prefer to say art has given me my life.

Being sectioned was the best thing that ever happened to me.

Give and you shall receive, much more that you ever thought possible. Give and give again. People who give will never be poor!

The truth is more important than the facts.

What's the difference between a Rottweiler and a poodle peeing on your leg? You let the Rottweiler finish.

The architect must be a prophet... a prophet in the true sense of the term... if he can't see at least ten years ahead don't call him an architect.

Space is the breath of art.

By the time I was a teenager, I knew I wanted to be an artist. I was a born draftsman and liked all forms of art, so I just knew that's what I wanted to do.

The more we are consuming oil that either comes from places that are bent on our destruction or helping those who are... the more we are enabling those who are trying to kill us.

Continuity is how you build a physique.

You know what the true definition of hell is? It's when you die, you get to meet the person you could have been.

Architecture is the triumph of human imagination over materials, methods, and men, to put man into possession of his own earth

Orange is the happiest color.

You only go around once, but if you play your cards right, once is enough.

What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again

Fly me to the moon, let me play among the stars.

I never design a building before I've seen the site and met the people who will be using it.

Basically, I'm for anything that gets you through the night - be it prayer, tranquilizers or a bottle of Jack Daniels.

You can't always write a chord ugly enough to say what you want to say, so sometimes you have to rely on a giraffe filled with whipped cream.

Wood is universally beautiful to man. It is the most humanly intimate of all materials.

You have to be optimistic. I still have doubts and conflicts, but the bottom line is, I believe in the future.

All the good music has already been written by people with wigs and stuff.

We find comfort among those who agree with us - growth among those who don't.

Harvard takes perfectly good plums as students, and turns them into prunes.

Without deviance from normality, there can be no progress.

Never run back to what broke you.

The best is yet to come, and won't that be fine? You think you've seen the sun, but you ain't seen it shine.

Prayer at its highest is a two-way conversation - and for me the most important part is listening to God's replies.

A building is not just a place to be but a way to be.