Frank McCourt Quotes

You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.

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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Madonna is untouchable. She is absolutely lovely. On a personal level, she's everything you would expect. She's so down to earth.

Matthew Williamson

YouDownEarthPersonalSheLovely

I do find it a bit disconcerting when your name becomes a brand.

Sophie Ellis-Bextor

BrandNameFindYourBitBecomes

I played in rhumba bands, mickey mouse bands; all kinds of bands.

Stan Getz

Mickey MouseKindsMousePlayed

I still feel Mormon. Those men in Salt Lake City can't decide who's Mormon and who isn't.

Sonia Johnson

MenCityFeelLakeSaltDecide

Ever since I was a little kid, I got bored, so I learned to sing, and I started singing lessons. And then anytime I was bored, I would start writing and start messing around on my computer, making beats. Then I got bored and started making YouTube videos; that changed my life in a big way.

Troye Sivan

LifeWritingSingingStartMy Life

I don't think you ever get used to being away from home.

Robert Whittaker

HomeThinkYouUsedBeingGet

When I do something, I don't want to be second best. That's the right way.

Miguel Cabrera

BestWantWayRightSomething

Politics in Philadelphia is a contact sport.

Michael Nutter

PoliticsPhiladelphiaContactSport

I've been an actor for 20 years, and I think the first 14 years, it was all struggling. At first, it was all gangsters.

Michael Pena

ThinkActorFirstYearsBeen

I think we need to radically reimagine the future - citizens, artist, writers, politicians, everyone.

Mohsin Hamid

FutureThinkArtistNeedPoliticians

Actually, if you look at the essence of ISIS, how it came about, it's the product of foreign invasion. Foreign invasion in Iraq led to removal of Saddam Hussein, and we're not unhappy with that, but the point is that foreign presence in any territory has created dynamics. And you cannot avoid those dynamics.

Mohammad Javad Zarif

UnhappyYouLookProductPresence

This person loves tangerines, This person loves raspberries - and my son won't even look at berries. Isn't that amazing? And so I have to apply that to music; otherwise, I would always hide in a hole because of all the people that don't like Coldplay.

Chris Martin

MusicSonPeopleAmazingLookHide

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