John McCormack Quotes

I live again the days and evenings of my long career. I dream at night of operas and concerts in which I have had my share of success. Now like the old Irish minstrel, I have hung up my harp because my songs are all sung.

John McCormack

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: musician
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: June 4, 1884 - September 16, 1945

Topics

SuccessLiveNightLongCareerNow

We sing in English, not mimicking some American rock singer's accent. That's just pretending to be something you ain't.

Joe Strummer

AmericanYouRockPretendingSinger

Men are apt to prefer a prosperous error to an afflicted truth.

Jeremy Taylor

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I wouldn't be a writer if I couldn't tell the truth.

Jenny Mollen

TruthTellWriter

I don't know if this is a stumbling block, but I had a real setback when I won a Nebula Award for the first story I ever had nominated for a Nebula in 1982. And you might think that was a good thing - and it was a wonderful thing, I don't regret it a bit. But I was sort of discombobulated by it.

John Kessel

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Utopia is a framework for utopias, a place where people are at liberty to join together voluntarily to pursue and attempt to realize their own vision of the good life in the ideal community but where no one can impose his own utopian vision upon others.

Robert Nozick

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Financially, I'm fine. But it's good to work. I'm not capable of doing nothing.

Anita Pallenberg

WorkGoodDoingNothingCapable

No one should be allowed to stand for Parliament without proof that he has taken responsibility for other people.

John Rhys-Davies

ResponsibilityPeopleStandWithout

You can get anything online, including things that don't even exist. We've invented our own collective unconscious. The normal rules of time and space don't apply. It's held together by some other force than gravity. It's endless. It's like some unimaginably huge, messy novel that's writing itself both with and without us.

Stacey D'Erasmo

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As an actress, it appeals to me because I love the idea of playing those in-between moments, the sort of behavioral stuff that one might not normally see.

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

LoveMeMomentsSeePlayingStuff

My real name is Bob Davis, but for some reason, I got the name Jasper while playing football at the local rec when I was nine years old, and it just stuck. Years later, when someone asked 'Jasper who?' I just said 'Carrott' - but I have no idea why I came out with that particular word.

Jasper Carrott

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Priesthood lessons are regularly devoted to topics of family leadership, and quorum leaders everywhere are feeling more and more their responsibility to teach and train their quorum members to be better husbands and fathers.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

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Let's stop playing with ourselves and get on with the entertainment, shall we?

April Winchell

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