Frank McCourt Quotes
Why can't this priest go back to Los Angeles and leave me alone? Why is he taking me to lunch when he should be out there visiting the sick and the dying? That's what priests are for.
Frank McCourt
Quotes to Explore
I was fascinated by fairies when I was growing up, and I wanted to see one dreadfully.
Laura Amy Schlitz
As a child or young adult going through an illness, it can be stressful at times and boring and extremely alienating.
Vanessa Bayer
Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.
A. E. Housman
I have been dairy free for several years, and I started because I felt it was going to reduce my allergies, which it did, and help me lose weight, which it did.
Fran Drescher
At night when I used to sleep, I was thinking all the time that shall I put a knife under my pillow.
Malala Yousafzai
When you go somewhere like Kenya and you see how the children don't have pencils and pens, and all of these things are considered luxuries, and what a privilege they see education as and how hungry they are to learn, I wanted to give my brother and sister long lectures. That definitely stayed with me.
Naomie Harris
Of course, in all magic tricks there's a secret.
Lene Hau
I used to get bullied by the popular girls at school. Today, I am the popular girl, and the bullies come to my shows.
Lady Gaga
When we look at a good deal of serious modern fiction, and particularly Southern fiction, we find this quality about it that is generally described, in a pejorative sense, as grotesque. Of course, I have found that anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the Northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic.... Whenever I'm asked why Southern writers particularly have a penchant for writing about freaks, I say it is because we are still able to recognize one.
Flannery O'Connor
I was pretty much grown-up by the time I attended school in Britain - or as grown-up as I'll ever get.
Walter Jon Williams
The more I know, the more sure I am I know so little. The eternal paradox.
James Clavell
Why can't this priest go back to Los Angeles and leave me alone? Why is he taking me to lunch when he should be out there visiting the sick and the dying? That's what priests are for.
Frank McCourt
