Frank McCourt Quotes
I like the lemon meringue pie but I don't like the way Americans leave out the 'r' at the end of a word.Frank McCourt
Quotes to Explore
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I feel happy that I am being honoured for doing films of my own liking.
Nawazuddin Siddiqui -
High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.
Patricia Marx -
My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players.
Hakeem Olajuwon -
I've been quite fascinated by the relative insignificance of human existence, the shortness of life. We might as well be a letter in a word in a sentence on a page in a book in a library in a city in one country in this enormous universe! And that kind of fear and insignificance has kept me awake at night.
Laura Marling -
When you scratch the surface, every one of us has something that we deeply want to contribute to the world. All we have to do is step up and do it.
Jack Canfield -
The congressmen and senators used to go have a drink in D.C. They would disagree all day long, but they would find that time to sit down and learn about each other personally. I think that's totally wiped out; I don't think it really exists anymore.
Zach Galifianakis
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I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.
Carl Sandburg -
A stereotype may be negative or positive, but even positive stereotypes present two problems: They are cliches, and they present a human being as far more simple and uniform than any human being actually is.
Nancy Kress -
I went to jail 44 times. I've been beaten and left for dead on the side of the road fighting for freedom... Yet Rosa Parks is better known in history than Ralph David Abernathy. Why is that?
Ralph Abernathy -
I've run my whole life - for more than exercise, for mental health.
Wendelin Van Draanen -
For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
I was into Spider Man when I was a kid and that was the only comic I've ever read.
Idris Elba
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You can't understand Twenties England until you appreciate it was under a cloud of mourning. Nearly everyone was grieving.
Ian Hislop -
If you don't have good horses, it's very tough to win.
Facundo Pieres -
Don't wear dresses that are too tight. A size number is just a number. If the fit is comfortable, it will look more elegant.
Tadashi Shoji -
During 'Hawthorne', I was constantly trying not to be too outrageous and keep it serious. This has been so refreshing for me because it's such a good outlet for the inner me to just be. That's the whole point of 'Glee' anyways – to just be who you are and that's enough. I really feel that way on set.
Vanessa Lengies -
I've always been a geek, so I've always used the Internet, perhaps at first for autopromotion, as many authors do.
Tatiana de Rosnay -
I think there is something to be said for not coddling people and not accepting good as good enough.
Damien Chazelle
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Before my eyes he wilted like a wet sock.
P. G. Wodehouse -
There are conscious reasons and unconscious reasons why I pick something. You know, I have to be moved by the story and usually that means it has to touch me in some kind of personal place.
Jodie Foster -
Nobody knows the hard work that goes in the morning before I do anything.
Matt Harvey -
I saw a picture of a girl using an eyelash curler when I was a kid, and I thought it was some sort of torture device, the eye guillotine.
Jamie Hince -
Dancing serves no necessary use, no profitable, laudable, or pious end at all. It is only from the inbred pravity, vanity, wantonness, incontinency, pride, profaneness, or madness of man's depraved nature.
William Prynne -
I like the lemon meringue pie but I don't like the way Americans leave out the 'r' at the end of a word.
Frank McCourt