I worked in a number of high schools in New York, and I wound up at Stuyvesant High School, which is known nationally for producing brilliant scientists and mathematicians, but I had writing classes. I thought I was teaching. They thought I was teaching, but I was learning.


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I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual ...
ZE FRANK
The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
ZE FRANK
I think this is one of the greatest gifts of this era: Because of the Internet, we can start to type...
ZE FRANK
Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... ...
ZE FRANK
A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the senten...
ZE FRANK
Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
FRANK ZAPPA
What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
FRANK CRANE
My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but yo...
FRANK OCEAN
When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he ...
FRANK GEHRY
There's enough pressure in life without seeking competition. That makes it double pressure.
FRANK BRUNO
Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
ANNE FRANK
I live in a crazy time.
ANNE FRANK
For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identi...
GARY FRANK
Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxe...
FRANK SHORTER
Don't follow trends, start trends.
FRANK CAPRA
Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.
FRANK DANE
I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.
FRANK ZAPPA
I was a thug.
FRANK OCEAN
A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.
FRANK CRANE
I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with t...
FRANK OCEAN
I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimen...
ROBERT FRANK
I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above al...
ROBERT FRANK
You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the ph...
ROBERT FRANK
It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
ROBERT FRANK
There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography...
ROBERT FRANK
If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.
FRANK LANE
You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.
FRANK SINATRA
I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too ...
OTTO FRANK
We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but ...
OTTO FRANK
I think there are a number of bishops - and I put Cardinal Mahony in that category - who listen too ...
FRANK KEATING
Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions.
FRANK BUTLER
We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the c...
GARY FRANK
Christopher Reeve so completely inhabited the character Superman when he was in that costume, and th...
GARY FRANK