Frank McCourt Quotes
There’s no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there’s always someone with an answer and there’s nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer you’d be punching morning noon and night.Frank McCourt
Quotes to Explore
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We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.
Wallace Stevens -
Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
Jack Vance -
Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
P. J. O'Rourke -
When I arrive at my destination, I like to hit the gym, as I find exercise helps combat jet lag.
Orlando Bloom -
I'm a lyric soprano. I can try to step outside that and do different kind of singing, but it's not something I can sustain over the long haul, and what is good for your voice is good for your career.
Victoria Clark -
I don't wish I did anything differently. The most important thing to me was to play baseball.
Eddie Murray
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Photography, painting or poetry – those are just extensions of me, how I perceive things; they are my way of communicating.
Viggo Mortensen -
Showing up at school already able to read is like showing up at the undertaker's already embalmed: people start worrying about being put out of their jobs.
Florence King -
I want to keep acting. I'll be acting probably until I get a lot older.
Dakota Goyo -
Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.
Weili Dai -
Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.
Harold Edward Holt -
In this sport luck and tragedy are only a few hundredths of seconds apart from each other.
Jacky Ickx
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You have a specific, defined audience-at MTV, they assume the audience to the news is 15 to 30 years old and they do a lot of research about the things they're interested in.
Tabitha Soren -
What I really learned in the army was how to be a pacifist.
Utah Phillips -
Math is like going to the gym for your brain. It sharpens your mind.
Danica McKellar -
I'm playing a very strong character, it's the story of the woman Polish Jews out of the Warsaw ghetto. I've just begun my weapons training and the SAS type training that's getting me fit.
Sadie Frost -
I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.
Saint Teresa of Avila -
I've always loved War's Low Rider and Sly Stone's Thank You, and I just wanted to put my take on them.
Barry White
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In the 21st century our tastes buds, our brain chemistry, our biochemistry, our hormones and our kitchens have been hijacked by the food industry.
Mark Hyman -
When all the dark clouds roll away And the sun begins to shine I see my freedom from across the way And it comes right in on time Well it shines so bright and it gives so much light And it comes from the sky above Makes me feel so free makes me feel like me And lights my life with love.
Van Morrison -
I say three prayers every night to make sure that God knows I thank him so much.
Jackie Evancho -
When I first walked into 54 Below, I had this kind of deja vu experience and tried to imagine what this was like back in the day when I would come here at night after doing 'A Chorus Line.'
Donna McKechnie -
A blue eye is a true eye; Mysterious is a dark one, Which flashes like a spark sun! A black eye is the best one.
William R. Alger -
There’s no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there’s always someone with an answer and there’s nothing you can do but punch them in the nose and if you were to punch everyone who has an answer you’d be punching morning noon and night.
Frank McCourt