Frank McCourt Quotes

It's like a series of waves hitting you. First, getting excerpted in the 'New Yorker' last summer, then getting published, then the best-seller list, the award, the movie deal, now this, a Pulitzer.

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• Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Life
  • Today
  • Regret

• Muzzle a dog and he will bark out of the other end.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • Dog
  • End
  • Will

• We are creating the new Atlanta, along with Rich Homie Quan and Young Thug. We bring the spaghetti, put it in the bowl, mix it together, and we make the new Atlanta.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Together
  • Young
  • Rich

• I've seen women afraid to stretch for things. They avoid opportunities they don't feel qualified for yet. Instead, they should grab risky opportunities that will force them to grow on the job and learn to do it.

  

  Karen Finerman
  • Women
  • Job
  • Opportunities

• If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Great
  • Career
  • Me

• That is to say, epic poetry has been invented many times and independently; but, as the needs which prompted the invention have been broadly similar, so the invention itself has been.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Poetry
  • Say
  • Epic

• When I was a very young lawyer, I had a senior partner who advised me never to get mad, except on purpose.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Purpose
  • Mad
  • Partner

• I quit college. I was studying architecture for about a year.

  

  Barry Mann
  • College
  • Architecture
  • Year

• Happiness is only attained by the free will agreeing in its freedom to accord with the will of God.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • God
  • Free
  • Freedom

• I always believed in if you give your best, people will see it, and it moves to the next level. I got my first movie, and I gave it my best. Before I was done with that movie, I was offered my first feature film.

  

  Adam Beach
  • People
  • Done
  • Movie

• In Europe and the United States, you've got different systems to select candidates, and no system is perfect.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Different
  • You
  • Perfect

• Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • End
  • Aim
  • Noble

• I am capable of much more. I guess every artist feels that way. If you are satisfied, you begin to stagnate. I want to grow as an actress every day. There are so many things you can learn, and you can improve upon your skills and abilities every day.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Artist
  • Learn
  • Skills

• I'll work out with my trainer twice a week, and I'll do some Power Pilates and might throw in some yoga. I love to row also. The main thing for me is just to move every single day for 30 minutes to an hour.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Work
  • Love
  • Power

• I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Live
  • Running

• I keep pushing buttons and trying to grow as a person and as a filmmaker.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Trying
  • Grow
  • Buttons

• Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Hope
  • Hook
  • Bait

• If co-operation is a duty, I hold that non-co-operation also under certain conditions is equally a duty.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Duty
  • Conditions
  • Hold

• Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Society
  • Islam
  • Ideology

• 'Brown Girl Dreaming' was a book I had a lot of doubts about - mainly, would this story be meaningful to anyone besides me? My editor, Nancy Paulsen, kept assuring me, but there were moments when I was in a really sad place with the story for so many reasons. It wasn't an easy book to write - emotionally, physically, or creatively.

  

  Jacqueline Woodson
  • Book
  • Girl
  • Moments

• We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.

  

  Alexander Herzen
  • World
  • Prayer

• Movie stars and singers never fully pass away because their images are replayed on film and recordings, over and over.

  

  Bill Kurtis
  • Movie

• It's like a series of waves hitting you. First, getting excerpted in the 'New Yorker' last summer, then getting published, then the best-seller list, the award, the movie deal, now this, a Pulitzer.

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Movie
  • Summer
  • Waves