Frank McCourt Quotes

People who think I have insulted Ireland or Limerick or my family have not read the book!

Frank McCourt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

FamilyPeopleBookThinkIreland

I was the first voice of Baltimore television in 1947.

Jim McKay

VoiceTelevisionFirstBaltimore

The hotel industry is a very modern invention - it only really started to become branded in the 1950s.

Joe Gebbia

HotelBecomeInvention1950sModern

For many years, it seemed as if nothing changed in Norway. You could leave the country for three months, travel the world, through coups d'etat, assassinations, famines, massacres and tsunamis, and come home to find that the only new thing in the newspapers was the crossword puzzle.

Jo Nesbo

HomeTravelWorldPuzzleYouFind

ALS does not affect cognitive process. Stephen Hawking, one of smartest people on the planet, has ALS. It rarely affects the eyes. It doesn't affect senses like hearing, taste and touch.

Steve Gleason

EyesPeopleProcessTouchHearing

The American public should know that the Senate report actually reveals that 82% of detainees subjected to enhanced interrogation did, in fact, produce intelligence that saved American lives.

Trent Franks

IntelligenceAmericanKnowFactDid

Dad was a very gentle, sweet man. Mum was the matriarch and the patriarch of the family. She ran the roost with a steel fist, but at the same time there was respect and love for her.

Tony Scott

FamilyLoveRespectTimeManSweet

I love the writing of Walter Tevis and what he views as the possibilities of science rather than science fiction.

Roger Deakins

LoveScienceWritingPossibilities

My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.

Rose Kennedy

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When a country is strong... it accepts any dose of pessimism from its writers.

Michel Houellebecq

StrongCountryPessimismAnyDose

I've started movies without screenplays both on 'Clash' and on 'Hulk,' and that is tremendously stressful because you have a tendency to overcompensate with effects. You haven't tested it in your head. You didn't run it over and over again and covered all of the plot holes and figure it out. It's a marathon that you sprint.

Louis Leterrier

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I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.

Janis Ian

MusicMeFeelBornComingSomething

I'm not about talking and finger-pointing and complaining. I'm about getting things done.

Christine Quinn

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