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

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• My parents took me to see plays, starting from when I was very little. Oftentimes, I was too young to understand. I don't know what my parents were thinking - 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf' when I was eight years old, that kind of thing. So lots of times, I didn't understand what was going on, but I just loved the sound of dialogue.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Thinking
  • Parents
  • Sound

• We have to stop rewarding bad behavior.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Bad
  • Stop
  • Behavior

• I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'

  

  Carlene Carter
  • Girl
  • Always
  • Made

• I completely get the drag thing.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Thing
  • Get
  • Drag

• There can be no literary equivalent to truth.

  

  Laura Riding
  • Truth
  • Literary
  • Equivalent

• If you are trying to get people to work on a problem together, it's best if they don't know where you, as the supervisor/manager, stand on the question.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Work
  • Trying

• At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.

  

  Earl Blumenauer
  • Time
  • American
  • House

• You've got the federal government in every part of our lives, doing things wrong.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • You
  • Government
  • Doing

• You can almost taste the pressure now.

  

  Vin Scully
  • You
  • Pressure
  • Now

• Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Free
  • Independent
  • Africa

• When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Time
  • Why
  • Kids

• Intellectually, I am already an old man. But in the sensory area, I am still such a child! I shuffle on my bottom between the two.

  

  Oskar Kokoschka
  • Child
  • Old
  • Bottom

• Freedom is secured every day by our men and women in uniform. We must build a future worthy of their sacrifice.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Men
  • Women
  • Future

• I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • Music
  • Heart

• I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • People
  • Women
  • Down

• 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
  • Real
  • Democracy
  • Perspective

• 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
  • People
  • Women
  • Truth

• 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
  • Up
  • Time
  • inspirational

• I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death.

  

  Paris Jackson
  • Father
  • Death
  • Memories

• 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
  • God
  • She
  • Woman

• Every night is different, you never know what it's going to be like. I remember every night. I don't like to compare them.

  

  Lenny Kravitz
  • Different
  • Remember
  • Night

• Never think that Jesus commanded a trifle, nor dare to trifle with anything He has commanded.

  

  Dwight L. Moody
  • Jesus

• But people only die in proper duels, you know, with real wizards. The most you and Malfoy’ll be able to do is send sparks at each other. Neither of you knows enough magic to do any real damage. I bet he expected you to refuse, anyway.” “And what if I wave my wand and nothing happens?” “Throw it away and punch him on the nose,” Ron suggested.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • People
  • Real
  • Die

• I think there's something about the Irish experience - that we had to have a sense of humor or die.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Experience
  • Die
  • Irish