Malachy McCourt Quotes
Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
Quotes to Explore
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All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.
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If I have caused just one person to wipe away a tear of laughter, that's my reward.
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I love writing journalism because it's all over in two hours and comes straight off the top of the head. Writing novels is soooooo much harder. It's the hardest thing I've ever done.
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The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
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There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him.
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I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.
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Surround yourself with people who provide you with support and love and remember to give back as much as you can in return.
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I really like the power of stopping the laughter and turning it to horror.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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Free love sounds great.
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I just love, love going around and traveling and bringing the music to people. They just make you feel so happy that you came.
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I love to walk through the streets of Jesus Maria and Pueblo Libre. The Spanish colonial buildings are in bright colors, two stories high, with these intricate wooden, windowed balconies.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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I love funk and soul and Motown.
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Love, and do what you like.
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Love conquers all things except poverty and toothache.
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There are a lot of folks out there that love the convenience of the Kansas City airport. That's one of the biggest things it's got going for it.
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I love to cook. I'm a sailor. And I was the eighth-grade ping-pong champion.
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All living languages are promiscuous. We promiscuous speakers shamelessly shoplift words, plucking bons mots and phrases from any tempting language. We wear these words when we wish to be more formal, more elegant, more mysterious, worldly, precise, vague.
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I definitely try to play a common man in my roles so people can identify with my characters, but the truth of the matter is that it doesn't really matter what I do or my lines are, I'm still Zach Braff, and people know I'm better than them.
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I suddenly understood that even love and caring weren't always enough. They were the concrete bricks of our relationship, but unstable without the mortar of time spent together, time without the threat of imminent separation hanging over us.
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I see myself as a man who is searching for meaning in life. This is rather different from being a staunch believer in something. A believer is someone who senses a consciousness or a direction and believes in it. The one who searches for meaning has not found the direction yet.
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As soon as rules were made, names were given. There are already many names. One must know when it is enough.
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Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
