Malachy McCourt Quotes

I am full of theories that are based on a very liquid foundation, because I used to be a drinker.

Malachy McCourt

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• I think we know how to do Mars.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Think
  • Know
  • Mars

• I'm over the word 'like' in conversation, and 'you know' seems to be the placeholder of choice, but when I'm writing dialogue, I tend to use those phrases because that's how people talk.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Writing
  • Choice

• My mornings go by so fast I forget breakfast. Lunch - that's turned out to be my biggest meal. I like tuna fish with low-fat mayonnaise and celery, egg whites and garlic. It's delish.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Breakfast
  • Fish
  • Lunch

• It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Important
  • Song
  • Meaning

• I've bought some Lanvin snake-print wedges, so maybe you'll see me pushing the pram in those and my hotpants!

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Snake
  • Bought
  • Wedges

• I have to expend an awful lot of energy actively undoing the impact of my name. Understandably, people assume that I have at least some connection to Iran. The truth is that I don't. I have very little knowledge about the culture, the language, the history. I've never been to Iran. I've never even been inside a mosque.

  

  Said Sayrafiezadeh
  • People
  • Truth
  • History

• The owner of the New York Yankees, Mr. George Steinbrenner who I had the greatest respect for, I want to thank him for giving me the opportunity to win that special ring in 1996.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Giving
  • Opportunity
  • Respect

• Like lots of women who marry young and find themselves mothers by the time they're 25, I felt I no longer had an identity.

  

  Rachel Hunter
  • Time
  • Women
  • Identity

• I don't let anything kill my spirit.

  

  Uday Kiran
  • Spirit
  • Anything

• Music is such a problem in the time it takes.

  

  Harrison Birtwistle
  • Time
  • Music
  • Problem

• A lot of actors, whatever movie you're working on, you make up a back story just for your own, to work off, even if the audience doesn't have it revealed to them. I think it's important that the audience makes up their own mind.

  

  Jacki Weaver
  • Up
  • Work
  • Important

• I like trying to win. That's what golf is all about.

  

  Jack Nicklaus
  • Trying
  • Win
  • Golf

• The individualists stare into each other's eyes and yet deny each other's existence. We walk in circles, so limited by our own anxieties that we can no longer distinguish between true and false, between the gangster's whim and the purest ideal.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • True
  • Eyes
  • Walk

• Cipla has already developed a generic version, oseltamivir, which would be much cheaper than Tamiflu, the only available drug effective in treating avian flu.

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Drug
  • Available
  • Effective

• Life stuff happens. You get knocked down, and you get back up. That's just always been my mentality. I'm not really fazed by anything. It's in the past. There's nothing I can really do about it now. You learn from it, and you move on.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Life
  • Up
  • Past

• Swollen in head, weak in legs, sharp in tongue but empty in belly.

  

  Mao Zedong
  • Weak
  • Empty
  • Tongue

• When you take other people's opinions, you end up flailing and you have no center.

  

  Gary Allan
  • People
  • Up
  • End

• I was at the 1976 Republican Convention in Kansas City. I was running 'Nobody for President' at the time. I printed up these press releases and handed them out to the crowd at the Kemper Arena. 'Nobody keeps campaign promises.' 'Nobody lowers your taxes.' 'Nobody should have that much power.' 'Nobody is in Washington working for you.'

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Up
  • Time
  • Power

• I love The Purple Book. It continually helps reinforce the only foundation worth building upon— a biblical one.

  

  Peter Furler Newsboys
  • I Love
  • Foundation
  • Helps

• The violence in the world comes about because we human beings are forever creating barriers between men who are like us and men who are not like us.

  

  Edmund Leach
  • World
  • Men
  • Forever

• Remembrance of things past.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Past
  • Nostalgia
  • Remembrance

• I have not led an ordinary life, nor a life that would suit everyone. I took great risks, but because I did, I also earned great reward. I found the way to show my true face freely, without fear. Because of this, I found true love.

  

  Cameron Dokey
  • Great
  • Reward
  • Earned

• Novel-writing is a highly skilled and laborious trade. One does not just sit behind a screen jotting down other people's conversation. One has for one's raw material every single thing one has ever seen or heard or felt, and one has to go over that vast, smoldering rubbish-heap of experience, half stifled by fumes and dust, scraping and delving until one finds a few discarded valuables. Then one has to assemble these tarnished and dented fragments, polish them, set them in order, and try to make a coherent and significant arrangement of them.

  

  Evelyn Waugh
  • Conversation
  • Heard
  • Material

• I am full of theories that are based on a very liquid foundation, because I used to be a drinker.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Foundation
  • Theories
  • Drinker