Joan Frank famous quotes

Coffee: we can get it anywhere, and get as loaded as we like on it, until such teeth-chattering, eye-bulging, nonsense-gibbering time as we may be classified unable to operate heavy machinery.
-- Joan Frank

#Coffee #Eye #Teeth

I'm told some people no longer bother to have friends at all - can't fit them in.
-- Joan Frank

#Friends #People #Fit

Lovers and even some family members may come and go but the friendships that take root abide. Sometimes the best of what is true survives as if it had an independent will: The coals of friendship keep themselves alive until something happens to rekindle them.
-- Joan Frank

#Friendship #Independent #Roots

Yes, letter writing is antiquated - though there remain a few renegades who still so treasure the luxury of contemplating their lives in letters that they would rather write than call.
-- Joan Frank

#Writing #Luxury #Treasure

Public depictions of women still tend to remain rigid and narrow - about the size of a coffin, say.
-- Joan Frank

#Women #Coffins #Size

I found myself face to face with a long line of people resembling extras off the set of Night of the Living Dead: shuffling along, pale and twitching, empty cups in hand -- murderous. Miserable. No matter that the air was rich with vapors of fresh-ground beans and warm muffins; no matter that the soft piped-in Vivaldi poured over us like steamed milk. These angry zombies were rushing to work, and their eyes flashed fair warning: Don't mess with us. We haven't had our coffee.
-- Joan Frank

#Coffee #Eye #Night

I like my coffee with cream and my literature with optimism.

You can't have a decent food culture without a decent coffee culture: the two things grow up together.

I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.

Harriet, Hi! Light of my eye! Come to the pictures and have a good cry, For it's jolly old Saturday, Mad-as-a-hatter-day, Nothing-much-matter-day-night!

Sarah took a deep breath and set off along the passageway again. A clump of lichen on the gatepost opened its eyes and watched her go. The eyes, on tendrils, had an anxious look, and when she had gone some distance away the clump, swiveling its eyes toward each other, commenced to gossip among itself. Most of it disapproved of the direction she had taken. You could tell that from the way the eyes looked meaningfully into each other. Lichen knows about directions.

I think it's important to take a break, you know, from the public eye for a while, and give people a chance to miss you. I want longevity. I don't want to get out there and run myself ragged and spread myself thin.

If you change your attitude you will change how you see the world and discover the potential it has simply through opening up your eyes to C Differently

If you see the teeth of the lion, do not think that the lion is smiling at you.

Every fairy tale had a bloody lining. Every one had teeth and claws.

POVERTY, n. A file provided for the teeth of the rats of reform. Its victims are distinguished by possession of all the virtues and by their faith in leaders seeking to conduct them into a prosperity where they believe these to be unknown.