Frank McCourt Quotes

I was just dreaming, and if, if I'd written the book and nobody wanted it, I would have put it in the drawer and said, 'Well, I did that.'

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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I wished to God the doctor had handed me a pamphlet that said, 'Hey, sorry about the autism, but here's a step-by-step list on what to do next.' But doctors don't do that. They say 'sorry' and move you along.

Jenny McCarthy

GodMeDoctorSorryYouSaid

The place to improve the world is first in one's own heart and head and hands.

Robert M. Pirsig

HeartWorldBrainyHandsPlaceHead

Nobody's really unsympathetic, I think. People do good and bad things. If a character's totally unsympathetic, they're not real and I'm not interested.

Matthew Macfadyen

GoodCharacterPeopleThinkBad

It's amazing how fast you learn something if they shove you out on the stage and say, 'Learn it.'

Steve Kazee

AmazingLearnYouFastSayStage

Each life makes its own immitation of immortality.

Stephen King

LifeImmortalityOwnEachMakes

I wanted to help women and their families.

Tory Burch

WomenHelpWantedFamilies

Every one knows, that the mind will not be kept from contemplating what it loves in the midst of crowds and business. Hence come those frequent absences, so observable in conversation; for whilst the body is confined to present company, the mind is flown to that which it delights in.

Mary Astell

BusinessMindPresentBodyWill

Let them not make me a stone and let them not spill me, otherwise kill me.

Louis MacNeice

MeStoneMakeSpillThemOtherwise

I will not have my son grow up in a tension-filled home.

Christina Aguilera

HomeSonGrowWillGrow UpUp

I don't like to watch dailies or video playback unless I have to.

William Fichtner

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'Hee Haw' began about the same time as 'Laugh-In,' but the difference was that the material on 'Laugh-In' was more sophisticated: people looked out windows. On 'Hee Haw,' they look out of cornfields.

Kenny Price

TimePeopleLookWindowsMoreOut

If 'Brexit' really is a political crisis, it should be treated as a political crisis - and not, despite all the market upheaval, a financial or economic one.

Kelly Evans

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