Frank McCourt Quotes

If you have a class of 35 children, and they're all smiling, and there's one little bastard, and he's just staring at you as if to say 'Show me', then he's the one you think about going home on the train.

Frank McCourt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: author
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: August 19, 1930 - July 19, 2009

Topics

HomeChildrenMeThinkGoing Home

You only live once - but if you work it right, once is enough.

Joe E. Lewis

WorkLiveEnoughYouRightOnly

I just wanted to be the best dietician in the world - but then modeling took over.

Maye Musk

BestWorldModelingOverJustThen

The difference between a theatre with and without an audience is enormous. There is a palpable, critical energy created by the presence of the audience.

Andy Goldsworthy

TheatreEnergyDifferenceAudience

If you expect to grow your business, you need to be plotting out your schedules days in advance. Until you get that most basic of steps orchestrated, you can never get to the critical steps that I outline in any one of dozens of books.

Michael Gerber

BusinessGrowYouNeverNeedOut

It's the relationship I have with the world: always trying to escape from reality. I'm a daydreamer; I don't feel in harmony with my epoch or the societies I live in.

Amin Maalouf

LiveRelationshipWorldRealityFeel

I had been struggling with how to create a child-like protagonist's voice without making it sound as though I was 'dumbing down' to the character. They are able to see events, people and places with an intensity and open mindedness that adults lack.

An Na

CharacterPeopleVoiceDownCreate

I have found serenity at Monaco.

Stephan El Shaarawy

SerenityFoundMonaco

It's hard to imagine going back to Italy, despite my experience in Serie A being extraordinary.

Alvaro Morata

ExperienceBackHardExtraordinary

I honestly never had the biological need to reproduce until I met my husband. But by the same token, even if we were unsuccessful, we were totally okay with adopting.

Lisa Ling

HusbandNeverOkayNeedSameEven

Every day I lugged my backpack through the halls, waiting for the final bell. Then I'd race home and hole up in my room, playing the drums and the piano, composing music.

Josh Groban

HomeMusicDayWaitingEvery DayUp

I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning.

Boz Scaggs

MyselfBeginningThinkSaidOver

No one knows how to write a novel until it's been written.

Alice Hoffman

WriteBeenKnowsHowNovelUntil

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