Malachy McCourt Quotes

I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.

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• Nations consist of people. And with their effort, a nation can accomplish all it could ever want.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Want
  • Effort

• Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras.

  

  A. Whitney Brown
  • America
  • You
  • See

• Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of society, for crime can easily breach the barriers that exist in our stratified society. Because of these barriers the modern literary novel, unlike its 19th-century predecessors, is often confined to the horizontal, dealing only with one class. But crime runs through society from top to bottom, and so the crime novelist can present a fuller picture of the way we live now.

  

  Allan Massie
  • Live
  • Today
  • Society

• Our financial system is so complicated and so interactive - so many different markets in different countries and so many sets of rules.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Different
  • Financial
  • Rules

• It was through the feeling of wonder that men now and at first began to philosophize.

  

  Aristotle
  • Men
  • Feeling
  • Wonder

• Generally speaking, an author's style is a faithful copy of his mind. If you would write a lucid style, let there first be light in your own mind; and if you would write a grand style, you ought to have a grand character.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Style

• My occupation is assistant storyteller. It is not "icon."

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Occupation
  • Storyteller
  • Icon

• I don't hate it here," she said automatically. Surprising herself, she realized that as much as she'd been trying to convince herself otherwise, she was telling the truth. "It's just that I don't belong here." He gave her a meloncholy smile. "If it's any consolation, when I was growing up, I didn't feel like I belonged here, either. I dreamed about going to New York. But it's strange, because when I finally escaped this place, I ended up missing it more than I thought I would. There's something about the ocean that just calls to me.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Trying
  • Hate
  • Missing

• Great organizations demand a high level of commitment by the people involved. Eliminate politics, by giving everybody the same message. Keep a flat organization in which all issues are discussed openly. Empower teams to do their own things.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Commitment
  • Level
  • Organizations

• If you are out in two races and someone else has a good couple of races, it could change. So all we do is try to get the optimum every time.

  

  Sebastian Vettel
  • Trying
  • Couple
  • Optimum

• I think all comics borrow from each other. Only a few have an original voice, and I wasn't one of them. In the end, I couldn't figure out who to steal from, so I stopped doing it.

  

  Steve Buscemi
  • Voice
  • Comics
  • Figure Out

• What can I expect here? You know the fairy tale about the man who died, don’t you? He was waiting in Eternity to find out what the Lord had decided to do with him. He waited and waited, for one year, ten years, a hundred years. He begged and pleaded for a decision. Finally he couldn’t bear the waiting any longer. Then they said to him: ‘What do you think you’re waiting for? You’ve been in Hell for a long time already.

  

  Anna Seghers
  • Decision
  • Waiting
  • Hell

• Those watercolourists who work from light to dark know that the darks do the damage.

  

  Bill Luff
  • Light
  • Damage
  • Watercolourists

• I would never become an alcoholic like my father because my father deserted us. But diseases, there's no let up.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • My Father
  • Diseases
  • Alcoholic