Malachy McCourt Quotes

If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.

Malachy McCourt

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• An election in which people have to wait 10 hours to vote, or in which black voters wait in the rain for hours, while white voters zip through polling places, is unworthy of the world's leading democracy.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • World
  • Black

• I know what it means to do a job... I worked in a factory. I respect people in the service industry. What irritates me more is when people aren't respectful. There's a lot of nonsense behavior, especially in a place like Hollywood. The money, the power, they create little monsters.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• My life is perfectly happy and giggly and I'm perfectly grateful every day; if there are problems to have, the ones I have are the ones to have; I'm lucky.

  

  Jennifer Lynch
  • Life
  • Happy

• Keep what you've got till you get what you need, y'all. You gotta give a lot just to get what you need sometimes, y'all.

  

  Chuck Brown
  • Giving
  • Sometimes
  • Needs

• My best advice to any young person is, if you want kids, be careful who you have them with. That's my mantra.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Kids
  • Advice
  • Mantra

• America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • America
  • Discovered
  • Hushed

• Russians call me German, Germans call me Russian, Jews call me a Christian, Christians a Jew.

  

  Anton Rubinstein
  • Christian
  • German
  • Jew

• One could call this a postnatal abortion on the part of a mother, I guess; I repudiate him entirely and completely for now and all times. . . . He is beyond human forgiveness.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Mother
  • Forgiveness

• The quivering, ardent sunlight showed him the lines of cruelty round the mouth as clearly as if he had been looking into a mirror after he had done some dreadful thing.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Cruelty
  • Dreadful

• I have a cousin, a second cousin, who lives in L.A., and she was with me while I was getting ready. She was talking about her father and his brothers. And I remember my mother's tales of how competitive they were with each other and how they would play for blood, you know. And I thought - I'm an only child, and I don't know what that's like. I have to figure out the Southern thing.

  

  Cynthia Nixon
  • Children
  • She
  • Remember

• The only thing we have to give to the world is our own grasp on it.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • World
  • Thing
  • Grasp

• A design isn't finished until somebody is using it. Brenda Laurel Intelligent design itself does not have any content.

  

  George Gilder
  • Design
  • Intelligent
  • Doe

• I never once made a discovery ... I speak without exaggeration that I have constructed three thousand different theories in connection with the electric light ... Yet in only two cases did my experiments prove the truth of my theory.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Different
  • Theories
  • Constructed

• I think living I gratitude really. When you’re in gratitude everything’s amazing. That’s the challenge right there because if you get hung up on the past it makes it very hard to just cope, so I try to come from gratitude every day and when I do that everything’s amazing.

  

  Josh Todd Buckcherry
  • Challenge
  • Living
  • Gratitude

• Peace in the Middle East is of prime importance to the Philippines, due to the presence of around 2 million of our countrymen working in that region.

  

  Benigno Aquino III
  • Peace
  • Importance
  • Middle

• The word 'defeat' is not to be found in my dictionary, and everyone who is selected as a recruit in my army may be certain that there is no defeat for a satyagrahi.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Defeat
  • Dictionary
  • Recruit

• The verb 'to darn' is explained in my pocket dictionary as follows: 'To mend by imitating the texture of the stuff, with thread and needle.' But this definition does not correspond to the work accomplished by good Chinese housewives. When they mend a sock, they do not try 'to imitate the texture of the stuff'. Their art makes no attempt at concealment: it even takes a certain pride in revealing itself.

  

  Daniele Vare
  • Pride
  • Accomplished
  • Definitions

• If you look up the word "gab" in the dictionary, it's insignificant of importance, of no substance. That's what gab is.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Importance
  • Dictionary
  • Gab