Frank McCourt Quotes
If ever you are to be visited by the Holy Ghost, you should make certain you're sitting beside a fireman.Frank McCourt
Quotes to Explore
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I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.
L'Wren Scott -
The gap in education in this country, the unfairness of the schools, is one of the great unfairness in this society.
Gaston Caperton -
A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.
Fanny Kemble -
I don't feel under-taxed in any way at all.
Jack Welch -
When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.
Candice Accola -
I don't ever want to be sad about my life.
Tammy Duckworth
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
J. Michael Straczynski -
I've always had a problem with conventional punctuation of dialogue because it does seem to me to set it off too much from the narrative. I mean, in life, things don't stop while somebody says something, and then stuff starts up again; it's all happening at once.
Kate Grenville -
The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith.
Karen Armstrong -
With all the problems we are having, I won't be afraid to tell leadership, 'You need to explain to me why I should follow you anywhere.'
Ted Yoho -
I think the sexiest thing about a woman is confidence, but confidence in a humble way, not in an arrogant way. Sense of humor is definitely important. And sunglasses always hide a multitude of sins. Sunglasses and a great pair of heels can turn most outfits around.
Victoria Beckham Spice Girls -
I don't believe that a hydrogen economy depends on a carbon economy at all.
Larry Burns
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With Taiwan, it took about 40 years to go from an authoritarian to a democratic society.
Ma Ying-jeou -
I'm old-school English, so I suppose I'm quite protective - especially of time. Now that I'm a father, every moment is precious.
Orlando Bloom -
I met Jill Soloway at Sundance a couple years ago. I was there for 'Crystal Fairy', and she was there for 'Afternoon Delight'. She reached out and wanted to get together.
Gaby Hoffmann -
Now I know the difference between a rousing reception and a pat on the back. Now I know the difference between a gold in Commonwealth Games and a bronze in Olympics.
Gagan Narang -
I regret the narrow contracted education of the females of my own country.
Abigail Adams -
What we are destroying is nothing but houses of cards and we are clearing up the ground of language on which they stood.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
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Smoking is related to practically every terrible thing that can happen to you.
Loni Anderson -
I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
J. Cole -
General Clark walked the campus like a retired deity and ignored the general run of cadets.
Pat Conroy -
The NAACP believes the Tea Party is racist. The Tea Party believes the NAACP is racist.
Jim Webb -
She would tell you herself that she has a very dreadful cold in her head at present; but I have not much compassion for colds in the head without fever or sore throat.
Jane Austen -
If ever you are to be visited by the Holy Ghost, you should make certain you're sitting beside a fireman.
Frank McCourt