Frank McCourt Quotes
When I was a kid, I was a pretty good runner, and there was nothing like winning a race.
Quotes to Explore
-
I don't know what it's like in the U.S. but immigrants in the U.K. do the jobs the citizens won't do.
-
I want to be judged on my own merits.
-
To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
-
I detest flying anywhere. Left to my own devices, I'd never leave my keyboard.
-
I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
-
I'm just going out there and doing exactly what I'm coached and doing exactly what I'm supposed to do and just trying to help this team win.
-
In a way, it's good not to be recognised as much off screen.
-
Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
-
At the end of OK Computer we were playing big, big arenas and it wasn't right. You can do those things occasionally but at the time it didn't feel right.
-
If I'm saying a universal truth, but maybe it's something that people don't feel comfortable saying... It's a strange take, but at the same time, what you're hitting on is kind of right. You can relate. That's the heart of comedy. You have to have a point of view. You gotta commit. And the more you commit to it, sometimes the funnier it gets.
-
Suppose that 'Unsolved Mysteries' called you with news of a long-lost identical twin. Would that suddenly make you less of a person, less of an individual? It is hard to see how. So, why would a clone be different? Your clone would be raised in a different era by different people - like the lost identical twin, only younger than you.
-
We met because Chad was in one of my classes, and I was looking for someone to write music with. I knew that he wrote his own music, and he seemed nice, so I found out he was going to be in a practice room, practicing his trumpet. He'd already said he was too busy to hang out or hear any new people or work on any music, so I stalked him.
-
Our founders did not oust George III in order for us to crown Richard I.
-
The value of an arts education is widely accepted, especially in California.
-
Libertarians understand a very simple fact of life: Government doesn't work. It can't deliver the mail on time, it doesn't keep our cities safe, it doesn't educate our children properly.
-
'Stand By You' is about sticking by the person you love not only when things are easy, but being there for them during trials and letting them know they aren't alone.
-
When you are a singer, you have to nurse yourself and make sure you don't get a cold.
-
I just love the weather. I live on Miami Beach, which is all boutique hotels and cocktails. I do sometimes go along to smart parties in my white suit, but I wouldn't really recognise any famous people if they were there because I'm not very good at star-spotting.
-
Luckily I haven't fallen into the trap, which has claimed so many writers, of living from day to day thinking 'Ah, I'll write a book about that.'
-
It's important to talk about loving yourself and looking at your tragedies and the stuff that makes you grow.
-
We should not give up and we should not allow the problem to defeat us.
-
Reasonable people can reasonably disagree on policy.
-
With the Supremes I made so much money so fast all I wanted to do was buy clothes and pretty things. Now I'm comfortable with money and it's comfortable with me.
-
When I was a kid, I was a pretty good runner, and there was nothing like winning a race.
