Frank McCourt Quotes

First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.

Frank McCourt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

LifeFamilyChallengeResponsibility

I wrote an article on a new Porsche for 'Automobile Magazine.' I knew the editor, and she asked me to write this article. So I'm more proud of that than anything.

Jerry Seinfeld

MeProudNewMoreWriteShe

I feel like it's actually everybody's responsibility to use whatever platform they have to do good in the world, basically, and to try to make our society better, whether you're an accountant or an activist or an athlete or whatever it is. I think it's everybody's responsibility.

Megan Rapinoe

GoodResponsibilityWorldSociety

It's possible to spend every waking hour here on the ninth floor and not get out of the office. And this isn't the real world in here. And contrary to public opinion, I'm not incredibly poll-driven. They are an ongoing indicator of how we are going, but I take the feedback I get on the street as being the most important.

John Key

OpinionWorldFeedbackPossibleReal

Some people really want to play Mozart and be just performers. I was more interested in invention.

Steve Lacy

PeoplePlayWantMoreSome People

If I can do quality work with wonderful writers and directors and producers... that's the cherry on top.

Sterling K. Brown

WorkQualityI CanTopCherry

Scientists who study play, in animals and humans alike, are developing a consensus view that play is something more than a way for restless kids to work off steam; more than a way for chubby kids to burn off calories; more than a frivolous luxury.

Robin Marantz Henig

WorkViewLuxuryPlayBurnWay

It is not a question of who dances but of who or what does not dance.

Ruth St. Denis

DanceQuestionWhoDancesDoes

I'd love to work with Tweet. She's my favorite singer, and I'd love to do a song with her even though she's out of my league.

Miles Heizer

WorkLoveSongSheOutSinger

Hate is self-destructive. If you hate somebody, you're not hurting the person you hate. You're hurting yourself. And that's a healing. Actually, it's a real healing, forgiveness.

Louis Zamperini

ForgivenessHateYourselfHealing

Do not wait for a poem; a poem is too fast for you. Do not wait for the poem; run with the poem and then write the poem.

Juan Felipe Herrera

WaitYouFastRunWritePoem

I have a house, with two big plasma-screen TVs, two dogs, a grill, chessboard. I like to keep it low-key: invite friends over, order some Papa John's pizzas and Coors Light, play poker and ping-pong and chill. I'm pretty private.

Jared Padalecki

LightChillFriendsHousePlayDogs

Throughout the human experience people have read history because they felt that it was a pleasure and that it was in some way instructive. The profession of professor of history has taken it in a very different direction.

Donald Kagan

HistoryExperiencePeopleDirection

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