Frank McCourt Quotes

I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.

Frank McCourt

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• I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Life
  • Political

• I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.

  

  Adam Clayton Powell, Jr.
  • American
  • Democracy
  • Chain

• If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Me

• As long as I have my health, I want to be reporting somewhere.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Long
  • Want
  • Health

• I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Women
  • Love

• I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.

  

  Eddi Reader
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Street

• You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Home
  • Sunset
  • Sunrise

• If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Long
  • Security
  • Cost

• I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • You
  • Famous
  • Theory

• If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.

  

  Abdelaziz Bouteflika
  • Men
  • Years
  • Born

• It ain't over till it's over.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Over
  • Till

• I was afraid the other musicians might want to present themselves too much, though I see in the coverage I've received of the album that the musicians got wonderful reviews for their contributions and abilities. I think the four musicians played freely within my limits.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Present
  • Musicians
  • Limits

• I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Mind
  • Society
  • Political

• You can't hit what you can't see.

  

  Walter Johnson
  • You
  • See
  • Hit

• Single mums do come in for a hard time. Society is incredibly judgmental. I know this.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Time
  • Society
  • Know

• I was called to audition for a play when I was very young, following which I continued to act as well as write and direct. When I moved to Delhi and joined Hindu College, theatre became a very big part of my life.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Life
  • College
  • Theatre

• The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.

  

  Halsey
  • Music
  • Me
  • Cool

• The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • World
  • Environmental

• We are the mimics. Clouds are pedagogues.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Clouds

• To act alongside a TV idol of mine, Peter Krause, was phenomenal. I watched him in 'Six Feet Under,' I watched him on 'Dirty Sexy Money' and I'll carry on watching him, and I've been lucky enough to be a part of that world with him.

  

  Alex Pettyfer
  • World
  • Money
  • Sexy

• I directed the next-to-last episode of 'Parenthood.' I wrote three of the four last episodes. I had the cast to my house. Had a champagne toast with the writers. Had a huge cast and crew party. Drank eggnog in the camera truck after we wrapped the final day. All that, and I don't really feel like I've said good-bye to 'Parenthood.'

  

  Jason Katims
  • Good
  • House
  • Party

• The dripping... well, if it happens, it happens; it does not take anything from the work. The dripping just proves that you were not trying to control the work, but the work was developing by itself and if it drips, its a natural part in the evolution of the work.

  

  Keith Haring
  • Work
  • Trying
  • Control

• Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Spirituality
  • Cells
  • Hermits

• I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Church