Frank McCourt Quotes

Just luxuriate in a certain memory, and the details will come. It's like a magnet attracting steel filings.

Frank McCourt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

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I keep my head straight by having the right people around me, from my friends and family to my management and my team. They all keep me in my place. If I didn't have them supporting all the work that I do, I wouldn't be in such a solid place.

Jess Glynne

WorkFamilyFriends And FamilyPeople

It's pretty traumatic knowing that your instrument that's your career isn't working, and you've got to have an operation.

Jess Glynne

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I find it strange when people can't relate to kids, because you were a kid once, you know?

Joel Edgerton

PeopleYouFindKnowStrangeKid

I have had no plastic surgery on my face. Can I leave it at that?

Jennifer Flavin

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What we realize is number one, people want to know what the Bible says. In their heart, they want to know the Bible but it is just hard to understand the big picture of it. And number two, they want to know where they plug in.

Max Lucado

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I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.

John Pople

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I can't get on girls' wavelengths at all. I think we are completely different. I don't know, maybe that's the way it should be. If we could all get along occasionally though, that would be nice.

Rory McCann

ThinkBe NiceKnowNiceWayGet

I think the big force is going to be consumer buying power.

Roy Romer

PowerThinkForceBigBuyingGoing

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

Mary Wollstonecraft

WomenMenThinkSexPayOwn

Words are really powerful. I don't believe that axiom at all - words can absolutely hurt you. Words can wound. They can do a lot of damage. I think they can do way more damage than sticks and stones. I'll take sticks and stones.

Mary-Louise Parker

WordsBelieveThinkHurtPowerful

Every time you read an interview with a supermodel, they're always like, 'Oh, I was a such nerd.' I resent that a little bit. I was in the A/V club. I used to eat my lunch in a closet.

Moby

TimeLunchYouAlwaysEatClub

Citizens identify with something larger than themselves - if one's country is attacked, it can feel like a personal attack in a way that a fellow bank customer's account theft does not feel like a personal invasion.

Jonathan Zittrain

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