Frank McCourt Quotes

St. Patrick, bringing the religion to Ireland, this is what we should celebrate.

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• I'm not interested in closure. Some people just have heart attacks and die, right? There's no closure.

  

  Larry David
  • People
  • Heart
  • Die

• Pop culture, it's crazy. There's all this violence in video games. In 'Call of Duty,' people are literally just blowing other people up. Hey, let's protect your country from your couch while eating your sandwich.

  

  Natasha Leggero
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.

  

  Vanessa Hudgens
  • Good
  • Guys
  • Date

• Actor's life is very long.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Life
  • Long
  • Actor

• Most of us understand that innovation is enormously important. It's the only insurance against irrelevance. It's the only guarantee of long-term customer loyalty. It's the only strategy for out-performing a dismal economy.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Important
  • Long
  • Innovation

• A new era of responsibility is here.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Responsibility
  • New
  • Here

• I have no regret about making 'Heroine'; rather, I am happy I made it. I never shun my films; I stick to it.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Films
  • Making
  • Shun

• I used to be a Democrat, now I'm basically a Republican.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Now
  • Republican
  • Democrat

• If you're going to self - publish, you need to know why you're doing it, what you want to accomplish, and how you plan to implement that.

  

  Victoria Strauss
  • Why
  • Want
  • Self

• Weapons of mass destruction violate more than individual lives - they cross international borders and jeopardize all people. They also drain resources that could be used instead for medicines, schools and other life-saving supplies. We must come together with even greater determination to prevent a WMD nightmare.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • People
  • Life
  • Together

• We know our friends by their defects rather than by their merits.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Friends
  • Know
  • Rather

• Still, still with Thee, when purple morning breaketh,When the bird waketh, and the shadows flee;Fairer than morning, lovelier than the daylight,Dawns the sweet consciousness, - I am with Thee.

  

  Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Morning
  • Sweet
  • Bird

• Pope Pius XII was meant to go and castigate Hitler for being a air quotes 'Genocidal Fuckhead … air quotes again with bunny rabbit ears'. But he didn't, he wimped out, and for that history has renamed that Pope as 'Pope Gutless Bastard I.'

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • History
  • Air

• 'A Reply to Professor Haldane' (1946), published posthumously in Of Other Worlds: Essays and Stories (1966)

  

  C. S. Lewis

• I loved a lot of different kinds of music, but for my own thing, I went for the singer-songwriters.

  

  Patti Scialfa
  • Music
  • Different

• It's just interesting that people don't really know about the roles that I play that are darker. I kind of do a huge blend of really big light things but also really dark indie things, and it just sort of happens to work out that way.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • People
  • Work
  • Interesting

• I would rather take the role and work and make my own money and self respect than to have sex with someone who has a lot of money.

  

  Kristy Swanson
  • Work
  • Money
  • Respect

• Peter Townshend shows us it's all right to grow up. There is dignity after rock'n'roll.

  

  Sting The Police
  • Up
  • Rock

• Child murderers practice their profession without let or hindrance, and open infant butcheries unquestioned...Is there no remedy for all this ante-natal child murder?

  

  Caroline Norton
  • Children
  • Profession
  • Murder

• With fiction, I tend to get to my desk and start writing. Poetry I write in my head, often while walking, so that my poems have an organic quality, hopefully.

  

  John Burnside
  • Writing
  • Quality
  • Poetry

• I will absolutely say that whatever job I was asked to do, whatever schedule I was asked to work, it is never going to be as hard as looking after a child.

  

  Catherine Tate
  • Children
  • Jobs
  • Hard

• For a while we had trouble trying to get the sound of a champagne cork exploding out of the bottle. I solved the problem by sticking my finger in my mouth and popping it out.

  

  Lawrence Welk
  • Trying
  • Champagne

• I don't like to watch myself. For the most part, I find it weird. It depresses me; I'm very critical.

  

  Elizabeth Reaser
  • Weird

• St. Patrick, bringing the religion to Ireland, this is what we should celebrate.

  

  Frank McCourt