Frank McCourt Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I've never gotten thick skin. If you close yourself off and you get this protective armor, there is a price you pay with that - of not feeling. And feeling is important when you are a songwriter.
-
Tone can be as important as text.
-
In terms of Rogers, I can't comment on how other fighters in the UFC would fare with Brett Rogers because that's just speculation.
-
I want to stop transforming and just start being.
-
In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.
-
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
-
I think there is some truth to the fact that yeah, okay, cool, obviously the more mainstream kind of easier-to-grasp-onto dance music has become popular, but that holds true with almost any genre. It wasn't like the Sex Pistols hit the radio. It was poppier versions of that is what hit. It's never, like, the true core stuff.
-
If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.
-
Everyone wants to be a stylist. If you know that's your calling, then you need to intern as much a humanly possible. You need to go to fashion school if you can.
-
The Obama administration has provided almost no public information about the NSA's compliance record.
-
I don't get this whole super-skinny obsession. I really think women look more beautiful when they let their curves show.
-
Even the most embarrassing mishap can be spun into comedic gold.
-
Fortune cookies are a good idea. If the message is positive, it can make your day a little better.
-
I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
-
I play some fighting games, but mostly I just play sports.
-
Not everybody is a great rapper; not everybody lives for the art of lyricism.
-
I would love to do some more comedy. I would love to do some silliness. I would love to do some characters that have greater vulnerability.
-
There really are three types of 'religious' movies: the ones that make fun of it, the ones that vilify it and the ones that literally preach to the converted.
-
The east is not for me--the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.
-
The basic laws of the universe are simple, but because our senses are limited, we can't grasp them. There is a pattern in creation.
-
I've been almost everywhere. But I've never been to the steppes of Latvia. It's something I've always wanted to do.
-
I grew up in Nashville in a white suburb. We lived next to a Klan member. We didn't see hoods, but my dad knew that guy was a Grand Dragon.
-
I learned the significance of my own insignificant life.
