Frank McCourt Quotes

Early in my teaching days, the kids asked me the meaning of a poem. I replied, 'I don't know any more than you do. I have ideas. What are your ideas?' I realized then that we're all in the same boat. What does anybody know?

Frank McCourt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

MeIdeasBoatMeaningYouEarly

We often don't value what comes naturally to us because we think that everyone must have those abilities.

Jen Sincero

ValueThinkEveryoneUsMustThose

I'm not a photojournalist.

Robert Mapplethorpe

FatherDoneNeverWouldSomebody

I've been writing the same book my whole life - that you're in one family, and all of a sudden, you're in another family, and it's not your choice, and you can't get out.

Ann Patchett

LifeFamilyWritingBookYouChoice

The magic that you find in surf music, I think, is really timeless. You know, when I was very young, I was in a surf band. Surf music is an instrumental music that still means a lot to me, not in an nostalgic way, but as something that really gets to the heart of the guitar itself.

John Zorn

MusicHeartMeThinkGuitarMagic

Working on a startup is a balancing act: being crazy enough to believe your idea can take off but not crazy enough to miss the signs when it's clearly not going to.

Mike Krieger

CrazyBelieveEnoughSignsClearly

On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million souls. Steam rising from vents underground makes you wonder if there isn't one giant sweat gland lodged beneath the city.

Diane Ackerman

New YorkCityYouWonderSummerNew

I'm always a bit disappointed when I've finished working on a book.

Chris Van Allsburg

BookAlwaysDisappointedWorkingBit

It is possible to think that the Internet will be a net positive for society while admitting that there are significant downsides - after all, it's not a revolution if nobody loses.

Clay Shirky

PositiveSocietyRevolutionThink

We wouldn't turn over our customs service or our border patrol to a foreign government. We shouldn't turn over the ports of the United States, either.

Bob Menendez

ServiceGovernmentBorderOverTurn

Above and beyond having the social life, to have a core group of people that you work with and spend time with and learn how to work with is a nice thing.

Shawn Ashmore

LifeWorkTimePeopleLearnYou

You don't send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like 'shooting an unarmed child,' when that 'child' was beating him bloody.

Thomas Sowell

ChildPeoplePrisonMediaYouSound

Thousands of people come to LA every year, and some of them just disappear. Somebody gets them. In the States around 100,000 people vanish each year. I don't know what that means. Maybe there's something that just pulls 'em out.

Tobe Hooper

PeopleYearKnowOutDisappearJust

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