Malachy McCourt Quotes
I kind of miss the old sleazy Times Square, in a way. And yet I don't mind not being accosted by all sorts of strange people.
Quotes to Explore
-
I always loved music, and I always wanted to make a film about it, but I could never do it because of the censorship that was around.
-
Entrepreneurs in the United States and Europe finally figured out how to separate aluminum from minerals cheaply and also how to produce it on an industrial scale.
-
I found that the corridors of power in Delhi were littered with lobbies of various kinds.
-
I listen to music constantly while writing.
-
I was a typical farm boy. I liked the farm. I enjoyed the things that you do on a farm, go down to the drainage ditch and fish, and look at the crawfish and pick a little cotton.
-
We live surrounded by critics, so let them talk, let them criticize me as much as they want. Ultimately, that makes me a better player.
-
Richard Lester is a wonderful director, a great comedy director, of course.
-
Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
-
I can do everything with ease on the stage, whereas in real life I feel too big and clumsy. So I didn't choose acting. It chose me.
-
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
-
We're so marinated in the culture of speed that we almost fail to notice the toll it takes on every aspect of our lives - on our health, our diet, our work, our relationships, the environment and our community.
-
I'm not Carl Lewis the athlete any more. I'm growing into a new person with new interests and new goals.
-
If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.
-
I love various sports, including basketball, tennis and billiards.
-
Irreverence not only shows disrespect to Deity but also makes it hard for the Spirit to teach us the things we need to know.
-
I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
-
I love living in the country, so much so that I'm even surprised by it. I have met lots of interesting people - the community was really welcoming, and I now probably have a more interesting social life than I did in the city.
-
But movies as much as anything developed what I thought was right and wrong, what was honorable, what wasn't, what was funny what wasn't... what had some depth to it, what didn't.
-
It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.
-
Poverty has strange bedfellows.
-
I am content to live it all again And yet again, if it be life to pitch Into the frog-spawn of a blind man's ditch.
-
I kind of miss the old sleazy Times Square, in a way. And yet I don't mind not being accosted by all sorts of strange people.
