Frank Cottrell Boyce Quotes

Oh. My. God.' she said, pointing out of the window. 'Do you know what that is?'

I nodded and said, 'I think I may have seen it before.'

'That,' said Florida, 'is the Moonyouidiot. ~ Frank Cottrell Boyce

And in that moment, I felt my own ignorance spread suddenly out behind me like a pair of wings, and every single thing I didn't know was a feather on those wings. I could feel them tugging at the air, restless to be airborne. ~ Frank Cottrell Boyce

I was flabbergasted to be asked to write an episode - partly because I've been so absorbed in the last few series that I'd sort of forgotten that it wasn't real. ~ Frank Cottrell Boyce

What's Batman's superpower? He hasn't got one. He's just got a lot of gear. Cars and boomerangs and super-lightweight climbing equipment. Which he bought because he's rich. Batman's superpower is cash. ~ Frank Cottrell Boyce

Jem tugged the floral curtains open just above Mum's bed. She stretched and said, "Oh!" because there is something especially cosy about pulling open floral curtains in your camper van and finding the Mediterranean Sea shining hundreds of feet below you and seabirds twirling all around you. Especially if the kettle has just boiled. ~ Frank Cottrell Boyce

All traps are beautiful, that's how they work. ~ Frank Cottrell-Boyce (Doctor Who)

Gravity is not a trivial monster. ~ Frank Cottrell Boyce

Low gravity Monopoly is better than the Monopoly you play round the kitchen table, in that it only lasts a few minutes. ~ Frank Cottrell Boyce

Personally, I think, so what? Money's just a thing and things change. That's what I've found. One minute something's really there, right next to you, and you can cuddle up to it. The next it just melts away, like a Hershey's kiss. ~ Frank Cottrell Boyce

We walked on the moon. We made footprints somewhere no one else had ever made footprints, and unless someone comes and rubs them out, those footprints will be there forever because there's no wind. ~ Frank Cottrell Boyce

You will hear people say that poverty is the best spur to the artist. They have never felt the iron of it in their flesh. They do not know how mean it makes you. It exposes you to endless humiliation, it cuts your wings, it eats into your soul like a cancer. It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank, and independent. I pity with all my heart the artist, whether he writes or paints, who is entirely dependent for subsistence upon his art. Philip ~ W. Somerset Maugham

I was as secretive - indeed, as furtive - as any conspirator. Discovery, we knew, simply must not happen, or else all our time and effort would be wasted. If it were to be exposed that our particular group had got together and written a banking bill, that bill would have no chance whatever of passage by Congress. ~ Frank A. Vanderlip

Billy Gilbert hit a kamikaze back pass which Justin Fashinu pounced on like a black Frank Bruno ~ Ian Darke

Ideas are most to feared when they become actions, Paul said. ~ Frank Herbert

My dad, Frank Addison Albini, was a terrific shot with a rifle and had generally excellent hunting skills. While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didn't romanticize them. He was filling the freezer, not intellectualizing some caveman impulse or proving his worth as a real man. ~ Steve Albini

I don't know why people hire architects and then tell them what to do. ~ Frank Gehry

While determination builds character, quitting is habit forming. ~ Frank Sonnenberg

I HEAR YOU, FRANK. THIS IS DAVE. ~ Arthur C. Clarke

So Meyer Lansky was Hyman Roth? Was Marlon Brando Frank Costello? The confusion was compounded when quite serious newspapers started incorporating Godfather comparisons into their reporting on organized crime. ~ Robert Lacey

Religion often partakes of the myth of progress that shields us from the terrors of an uncertain future. ~ Frank Herbert

In New York, with Prohibition in full swing, he thought he had died and gone o hell for his sins. Then he discovered speakeasies and he rejoiced. ~ Frank McCourt

At 24, my head was as shiny as a cue ball on a billiard table. I naturally thought this meant curtains. Actually, I found it helped. When I was too young to play real character parts, they mistook me for older because of the bald noggin. I got juicy roles right from the start. ~ Frank Cady

The pure, frank sentiments we hold in our hearts are the only truthful sources of art. ~ Caspar David Friedrich

It's easier to make changes with a pencil than a wrecking bar. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

If ideals have such a power over our lives, if they energize and direct our first entry into the world ~ Frank B. Anderson

Empires do not suffer emptiness of purpose at the time of their creation. It is when they have become established that aims are lost and replaced by vague ritual.
-Words of Muad'dib by Princess Irulan. ~ Frank Herbert

It's natural to be skeptical of a story like Noah. However, the greatest miracle in the Bible is not Noah and the flood. The greatest miracle in the Bible is recorded in the first verse: "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth." If that miracle is true, then every miracle in the Bible is at least possible (including Noah's Ark). If God created the universe, then He can do whatever He wants inside it. ~ Frank Turek

You seem it's the silence that makes me so nervous during the evenings and nights. ~ Anne Frank

The most important thing in art is The Frame. For painting: literally; for other arts: figuratively
because, without this humble appliance, you can't know where The Art stops and The Real World begins. You have to put a 'box' around it because otherwise, what is that shit on the wall? ~ Frank Zappa

Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man. ~ Frank Herbert

Checking items off a to-do list doesn't determine progress; focusing on your priorities is what counts. ~ Frank Sonnenberg

Dussel promised her the moon, but, as usual, we haven't seen so much as a beam. ~ Anne Frank

Television is chewing gum for the eyes. ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

...We Fremen have a saying: 'God created Arrakis to train the faithful.' One cannot go against the word of God. ~ Frank Herbert

1. An honest ego in a healthy body
2. An eye to see nature
3. A heart to feel nature
4. Courage to follow nature
5. A sense of proportion (humor)
6. Appreciation of work as idea and idea as work
7. Fertility of imagination
8. Capacity for faith and rebellion
9. Disregard for commonplace (inorganic) elegance
10. Instinctive cooperation ~ Frank Lloyd Wright

I almost let him die. I did. I'm not proud of that now. It was a mistake. But when all you can think of is revenge, you don't think straight. I haven't for a long time. I've plotted and manipulated and stolen to get what I want, and it's cost me everything. When I lost my mother, I lost a bit of myself to the hatred. It clouded my judgment. I couldn't think straight anymore, and I lost both my father and brother because of it. I lost the love of my life. I lost the respect of my fellow Bloods. I lost control over you. By using deception to get my revenge, I lost everything, Kara. I lost everything that ever used to matter to me. - Blood Gavin ~ S.M. Boyce

A couple of months in the laboratory can frequently save a couple of hours in the library. ~ Frank Westheimer

The land was torn apart in a legal dispute. Soon it was so devastated, nothing could live here- not plant or animal. Only lawyers. But eventually the place fell into lawlessness, and lawyers can't exist in an area of lawlessness, so they went feral. Some say they still roam the land. You'll suddenly hear someone yell, 'Objection!' and then you'll be torn apart like an improperly witnessed contract. ~ Frank J. Fleming

The unity in any painter's work arises from the fact that a person, brought to a desperate situation, will behave in a certain way ... style. ~ Frank Auerbach

Frank Capra made a series of films during World War II called 'Why We Fight' that explored America's reasons for entering the war. Today, with our troops engaged in Iraq and elsewhere for reasons far less clear, I think it's crucial to ask the questions: 'Why are we doing what we are doing? What is it doing to others? And what is it doing to us?' ~ Eugene Jarecki

In politics, the tripod is the most unstable of all structures. ~ Frank Herbert

Catholic girls with tiny little mustaches. ~ Frank Zappa