Frank McCourt Quotes
I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die.
Frank McCourt
Quotes to Explore
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Let's not give the electoral process so much importance. We have to be cynical about it. Let's give importance to the real democracy that's constructed on a day-to-day basis. That's my hopeful perspective on it.
Gael Garcia Bernal
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Women who have abortions are people you know. Because that is the truth! One in three American women will have an abortion by menopause.
Katha Pollitt
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When you get into a tight place and everything goes against you, till it seems as though you could not hang on a minute longer, never give up then, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.
Paris Jackson
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I was at a restaurant in Glasgow, and I was walking down the stairs. A woman passed me and said, 'Oh my God, what are you doing here?' I didn't know who she was, and I was like, 'Sorry?' She goes, 'Oh no, sorry, I follow you on Twitter. I just didn't expect to see you here.'
Caitriona Balfe
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A lot of people pulled me up after 'Trainspotting' for its absence of politics, but the argument I make is that the absence of politics is political as well.
Irvine Welsh
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An animal takes freely anything that it wishes: it commits no sin and is not held responsible for its action because it knows no better. But as soon as the idea of 'mine' and 'thine' has been imprinted upon our consciousness, then also the responsibility comes.
Max Heindel
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You have more time to work in movies. My experience with movies is that you have more time to experiment with the character and camera angles and things like that.
Jean Louisa Kelly
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If a woman becomes weary and at last dead from bearing, that matters not; let her only die from bearing, she is there to do it.
Martin Luther
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As a memorial, I'd like a statue. Not of me, but a little modern statue, in marble or bronze, maybe of a bird, in a park where children could play and people going by could see it. On it, I'd just like it to say: 'Maeve Binchy, storyteller' and people could look at the name and remember that they'd seen it somewhere else.
Maeve Binchy
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A novelist can get by on story, but the poet has nothing but the words.
Janet Fitch
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I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die.
Frank McCourt
