Frank McCourt Quotes

That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.

Frank McCourt

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• Anything's possible. If I turn round tomorrow and say I want to be a spaceman, I could do that. You can do whatever you want to do.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Want
  • Tomorrow
  • Possible

• From 'Trainspotting' to 'Acid House,' I moved from urban realism into fantasy.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • House
  • Fantasy
  • Realism

• Being a nice person is about courtesy: you're friendly, polite, agreeable, and accommodating. When people believe they have to be nice in order to give, they fail to set boundaries, rarely say no, and become pushovers, letting others walk all over them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Believe
  • Nice

• It is not history which uses men as a means of achieving - as if it were an individual person - its own ends. History is nothing but the activity of men in pursuit of their ends.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Men
  • History
  • Achieving

• We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Money
  • Education

• I've always been an extremist. Some of us have very addictive personalities, and for some of us, that mechanism gets tripped up. Mine certainly did. I'm not cured. You never are. The recovery is a day-to-day process.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Up
  • Always
  • Never

• My belief is that I wasn't born into Judaism by accident, and so I needed to find ways to honor that.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Honor
  • Find
  • Belief

• 'Battle For The Planet Of The Apes', was just a film for kids and didn't have any deep meaning.

  

  J. Lee Thompson
  • Kids
  • Deep
  • Battle

• Sexuality is who you are personally attracted to... But gender identity is who you are in your soul.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Soul
  • Identity
  • Gender

• Gay marriage... I'm a traditionalist. I'm older than most people in the audience. I kind of like tradition, and it's always been a man and a woman. I'm thinking, 'I don't quite get it'.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Marriage

• This is the thing that I was born to do.

  

  Samuel Daniel

• God does not need to speak for himself in order for us to discover definitive signs of his will; it is enough to examine the normal course of nature and the consistent tendency of events. I know without needing to hear the voice of the Creator that the stars trace out in space the orbits which his hand has drawn.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
  • God
  • Nature
  • Space

• I considered acting an opportunity to express emotions-and I took advantage of every opportunity l got. It took me a long time to discover that restraint can be admirable. Restraint, however, does not mean lack of emotion. The thing that irks me is lack of emotion trying to pass for restraint. Lack of emotion is pathological; restraint is civilized.

  

  Leonard Nimoy
  • Time
  • Long
  • Trying

• The whole sense of the book might be summed up the following words: what can be said at all can be said clearly, and what we cannot talk about we must pass over in silence.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Up
  • Book
  • Words

• Fire destroys falsehood, that is sophistry, and restores truth, driving out darkness.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Truth
  • Fire
  • Driving

• I wish I could say that the Chancellor of the Exchequer had done himself less than justice. Unfortunately, I can only say that I believe he has done himself justice. Some Chancellors are macro-economic. Other Chancellors are fiscal. This one is just plain cheap.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Wish

• Happiness does not await us all. One needn’t be a prophet to say that there will be more grief and pain than serenity and money. That is why we must hang on to one another.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Money
  • Why
  • Pain

• I don't have the attention span for sports.

  

  Colbie Caillat
  • Attention
  • Sports

• I'm kinda disapointed that Canada isn't like the South Park movie said it was.

  

  Joel Madden Good Charlotte
  • Movie

• We realised that the safer creative people and craftsman feel, the better the collection they produce. If they do a better collection, my revenues grow. It is not easy to attach figures, but it is what happens.

  

  Marco Bizzarri
  • People

• We should pay as much reverence to youth as we should to age; there are points in which you young folks are altogether our superiors: and I can't help constantly crying out to persons of my own years, when busied about their young people--leave them alone; don't be always meddling with their affairs, which they can manage for themselves; don't be always insisting upon managing their boats, and putting your oars in the water with theirs.

  

  William Makepeace Thackeray
  • Age
  • Water
  • Helping

• If our children are becoming teenagers who are abusive, have mental health issues, and are committing heinous crime, it only means that we have failed them as a society. We have failed to give them a safe, nurturing environment to ensure that they are well-balanced, useful persons in the society.

  

  Vikram Patel
  • Children
  • Society
  • Health

• That's what kept us going - a sense of absurdity, rather than humor.

  

  Frank McCourt