Frank McCourt Quotes

We were supposed to stay over in Boston, but when Scribners heard I'd won the Pulitzer, they told me to get on a plane - that Katie Couric wanted my body. And when Katie Couric wants your body, you get moving right away.

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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MeMovingYouBodyYour BodyBoston

Wherever the enemy wants to fight, we will follow him to the ends of the Earth. We'll adapt, we'll train, we'll advise, we'll mentor, and we'll fight, and we'll fight well.

Jim Mattis

FightMentorTrainEarthAdaptWill

I don't care about the rules. In fact, if I don't break the rules at least 10 times in every song then I'm not doing my job properly.

Jeff Beck

JobSongCareDoingRulesBreak

All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low.

John Wooden

LifeHighLowValleysGetPeaks

God was alive when this universe exploded into existence. He was alive when Socrates drank his poison. He was the living God when William Bradford governed Plymouth Colony. He was the living God in 1966 when Thomas Altizer proclaimed him dead and Time magazine absolutely absurdly put it on the front cover.

John Piper

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Often a performance can be judged not by a movie's strongest moment but by its weakest, especially when it's the picture's crucial scene.

Steve Erickson

MomentPerformancePictureMovie

What Bill O'Reilly says means nothing. What Stephen Bennett says means nothing. What God says means everything.

Stephen Bennett

GodNothingEverythingMeansSays

I don't think things through very often - I don't project into the future about how a situation will turn out.

Michelle Williams

FutureThinkSituationWillProject

I am trying to get right with God. I'm sort of making a statement about the excessiveness.

Lucinda Williams

GodI AmTryingRightStatementGet

My father was a sheep shearer, so I grew up in a caravan; we'd go around from shearing shed to shearing shed. My mother always wanted us to be educated, so I went to a school.

Jason Clarke

FatherMotherSchoolSheepGoUp

I have a lot of people depending on me - even people I didn't know depended on me.

Jason Pierre-Paul

PeopleMeKnowEvenLotDepended

I have a couple of friends who have gone pro in sports, and if you are off by an inch, it's an entire mindgame for the next week. That's how it works: like, your whole world is based around an inch. Being an actor, your whole world turns on an inch, too.

Johnny Simmons

SportsWorldFriendsWeekYouActor

Through adopting radical extremism, some young men who previously felt humiliated and emasculated by their peers can now feel powerful and intimidating - and gain status, attention from young women, and the comradeship and solidarity of other young men like themselves.

Deeyah Khan

WomenMenFeelAttentionPowerful

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