Frank McCourt Quotes

I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.

Frank McCourt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

WorkGodThinkChurchHelpGo

When I hear the words 'activist filmmaking,' I think of somebody who's an activist, who wants to prove a particular point.

Jehane Noujaim

WordsThinkFilmmakingProvePoint

I hope there is another life, for I would like to see how things come out in this world when I am dead.

Robert Green Ingersoll

LifeHopeI AmWorldDeadSee

I think I could probably make $5 to $10m movies for a very long time and live a perfectly good life doing it. I'd probably get paid as well as a surgeon, which is pretty damn remarkable for a guy who went to film school.

Jeff Nichols

LifeGoodLiveTimeSchoolThink

L.A. streets aren't just paved real estate but a cosmology, a manifestation of the city's sensibility.

Steve Erickson

CityReal EstateRealStreetsJust

I'm human. But overall, whenever I see anyone being made fun of or given a hard time, I rush to their defense. I want to help them because I know how it feels.

Stephanie Klein

TimeFunHelpKnowWantSee

Us brown-skinned girls get ashy if we don't moisturize.

Tyra Banks

UsGet

I always find it flattering when somebody recognizes me.

Rick Moranis

MeFindAlwaysSomebodyFlattering

We must permeate the stores with creativity and offer service when and to the degree the customer wants it. Of course, it means offering all the omni bells and whistles they want, like in-store pickup, same-day delivery, and mobile point of sale, and all of this must be done every hour of every day the store is open.

Richard Hayne

ServiceDayCreativityCustomerDone

In Holland, they have come to precisely the same conclusion. There they have adopted a system of secular education, because they have found it impracticable to unite the religious bodies in any system of combined religious instruction.

Richard Cobden

EducationSameSystemUniteCome

In hard-core science fiction in which characters are responding to a change in environment, caused by nature or the universe or technology, what readers want to see is how people cope, and so the character are present to cope, or fail to cope.

James E. Gunn

NatureChangeTechnologyCharacter

It is against the spirit of our non-discriminating times to openly prefer one sort of music to another, so let's just say that hearing grand orchestral music in a public place is exhilarating in a way that hearing popular music never can be, if only because, in a popular music age, a full orchestra is less familiar to our ears.

Howard Jacobson

MusicAgePlaceSayWayNever

What passes for real debate in Washington often seems more like an echo chamber, with politicians talking at politicians.

Bill Delahunt

TalkingDebateWashingtonMoreReal

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