Frank McCourt Quotes

I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.'

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• I exercise at home - light cardio and yoga.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • Home
  • Light
  • Exercise

• Life is made up of sobs, sniffles, and smiles, with sniffles predominating.

  

  O. Henry
  • Life
  • Smiles
  • Sniffles

• I don't do negative things.

  

  Rajeev Shukla
  • Things
  • Negative

• Socrates was famously executed for his philosophical and political beliefs. I wondered what would happen if you had a similar character, who was so relentlessly questioning of everything? In a modern society, would we be any more or any less tolerant of that kind of character?

  

  Samantha Harvey
  • Character
  • Society
  • Political

• For a long time I have been thinking about affordable fashion - you can be disappointed when not so many people can wear your stuff.

  

  Olivier Theyskens
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• I understand acting and I understand actors. I don't really understand the world of celebrity. That's just bizarre. Those sorts of elements I'm at sea with.

  

  Sam Neill
  • World
  • Acting
  • Sea

• I've had my run in with trouble. Fortunately, you know, one slap on the hand is usually the last time for me... I learned my lesson.

  

  Aaron Carter
  • Time
  • Know
  • Trouble

• My kind of director is an actor-director who writes.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Kind
  • Director
  • Writes

• Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.

  

  Karel Capek
  • Time
  • Work
  • Nature

• All too often, the pitchmen are selling the notion that if you gain 'control' over your financial destiny - pick your own stocks and execute your own trades - it will be the first step on a short road to riches.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Control
  • Road
  • Financial

• If you're conservative in Hollywood, you're on a list of people who need to be put in their place.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • People
  • Place
  • Conservative

• Making music is fantastic.

  

  Warren Cuccurullo Duran Duran
  • Music
  • Making
  • Fantastic

• For a while, I became an atheist; now that I'm grown up, though, I'm not hard-edged enough to be an atheist. Even though I live with a flaming atheist, I love going to temple. I love all the rituals.

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Up
  • Live
  • Love

• Customers are enormously punishing when companies don't meet their expectations.

  

  Tahl Raz
  • Expectations
  • Meet

• I can't ever seem to shake the feeling that when things are really good it essentially means that things are going to go really bad. When I feel calm and settled, there is always an underlying feeling of impending doom... I don't think that it's healthy.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Think

• Art is art, and journalism is journalism.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Art
  • Journalism

• I do believe, as a person of color, the disparities are great. A lot of the roles that were sent to me were 'Gangbanger No. 1.' And when a role did come up that I felt carried and represented my community in the best ways, I wasn't the only one that knew it existed. So I'd have to compete.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Up
  • Great
  • Believe

• Love is a great emotion, but I believe it's not just about romance; it could be love for nature, people, for relationships.

  

  Rani Mukerji
  • People
  • Love
  • Nature

• I never look at my watch when I'm sketching!

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • Never
  • Look
  • Watch

• In addition to myself and a number of others, President Clinton talked about the deficit and the debt issue. And he pointed out, really, what I pointed out, which is that when he left office, we actually had projected surpluses for a long period of time, because when he put together his economic plan, he did it in a balanced way.

  

  Chris Van Hollen
  • Time
  • Long
  • Together

• What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Dog
  • Arm
  • Favorite Bone

• The lower you are, the higher your mind will want to soar. It was natural that, bereft and desperate as I was, in the throes of unremitting suffering. I should turn to God

  

  Yann Martel
  • God
  • Mind
  • Want

• In New York, I have a photo of my parents on their wedding day in 1947. They're beaming at home plate in Houston's Buffalo Stadium. I love the photo because my dad is smiling. He didn't smile much in his later years.

  

  Keith Hernandez
  • Home
  • Parents
  • Dad

• I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.'

  

  Frank McCourt
  • Dad
  • Son