Frank McCourt Quotes

We don't look at teachers as scholars the way they do in Europe. In Spain you're called a professor if you're a high school teacher, and they pay teachers - they pay teachers in Europe.

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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TeacherSchoolHigh SchoolYouLook

I started when I was in 'The King and I' when I was on Broadway when I was nine.

Jenna Ushkowitz

KingBroadwayStartedNine

I love the comradery of doing theatre that you don't get in film.

Andrea Martin

LoveTheatreDoingYouFilmGet

Starting in the mid-1990s, the end-to-end ubiquity of the Internet, combined with its cheapness, spontaneously combusted to give us Napster - a site that revolutionized the music industry overnight. We got P2P file swapping in the film and TV industry as well.

Max Keiser

MusicInternetStartingIndustryUs

Sometimes I see myself as a locked box - very detached from myself and others. But I feel lucky, because I am the owner of my time, and you cannot buy time.

Maurizio Cattelan

TimeMyselfI AmFeelYouSometimes

I work out like a maniac and I spray tan a lot. Genetics were kind, but I work very hard.

Anna Paquin

WorkKindGeneticsHardOutTan

Beauty when unadorned is adorned the most.

St. Jerome

BeautyMostAdorned

When you taste first place, if you then go and finish fourth, you will be disappointed.

Riyad Mahrez

YouPlaceGoWillFirstFinish

In the past when a country became as powerful as the United States, other countries would band together to clip its wings. But that isn't happening now and I don't think it's not going to happen, because other countries are not threatened by us, and they secretly appreciate the services that we provide, even if they don't usually say so.

Michael Mandelbaum

TogetherPastThinkAppreciateWings

I don't have my life mapped out. I am happy to see where it goes, and then, hopefully, I won't be disappointed.

Lucy Davis

LifeI AmHappyMy LifeI Am Happy

The title song of David Bowie's 'Young Americans' is one of his handful of classics, a bizarre mixture of social comment, run-on lyric style, English pop and American soul.

Jon Landau

StyleSoulSongAmericanYoungPop

It takes a real storm in the average person's life to make him realize how much worrying he has done over the squalls.

Bruce Barton

LifeStormPersonDoneRealizeReal

I have no idea why I won, man. I guess some people liked the music that I was doing. I'm just lucky. I was just doing my thing each week.

Phillip Phillips

MusicManPeopleDoingWeekWhy

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