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Frank McCourt Quotes

There's nothing in the world like getting up in front of a high-school classroom in New York City. They won't give you a break if you don't hold them. There's no escape.

Frank McCourt

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

New York City World You New Escape

I'm becoming more powerful.

Jenn Suhr

Powerful More Becoming

We concluded that you cannot rely on delta hedging alone. It sounds simplistic to say that now, but back then, this was the sort of thing people were only just beginning to realize.

John Hull

Alone Beginning People You Back Say

The return from cows and sheep in cheese is worth much money every day in the season, without calves and lambs, and without the manure, which all return corn and fruit.

Robert Grosseteste

Money Day Fruit Sheep Every Day

Views are overrated; it's light that counts. I have an apartment in Miami's South Beach, and I get tired of looking at the ocean. Even that view gets old after a while. Sunlight streaming into a room - it never gets old.

Michael Graves

Light Beach Ocean Tired Looking

We are born to action; and whatever is capable of suggesting and guiding action has power over us from the first.

Rush Limbaugh

Power Action Born First Over Us

The Sabbath provides a wonderful opportunity to strengthen family ties.

Russell M. Nelson

Family Opportunity Wonderful Sabbath

People are interested in crime fiction when they're quite distanced from crime. People in Darfur are not reading murder mysteries.

Denise Mina

People Reading Crime Fiction Quite

I think maybe ten years from now, I'm hopefully going to be, in like, Tahiti or something. Kicking back like in my huge mansion, if everything goes right, it's all up to me.

Corey Haim

Me Think Back Now Right Everything

Any artist who goes to Las Vegas is an idiot as far as I am concerned. Whoever goes to Las Vegas can stay in Las Vegas.

Chuck Close

I Am Idiot Vegas Artist Stay Far

The argument that a serif font is too fussy doesn't cut it anymore. You want a font where the letter forms are not ambiguous.

Bruno Maag

You Argument Want Cut Where Letter

I have a taste for a kind of melancholy and for being an absolute victim of love.

Arielle Dombasle

Love Kind Taste Victim Being

Leaving America is like losing twenty pounds and finding a new girlfriend.

Phil Ochs

Losing America Finding New Leaving