You don't have to go fight bulls in Spain like Hemingway to write something great, or go off to ...
FRANK MCCOURT In public schools, classes are bloated - it's ridiculous.
FRANK MCCOURT I'm a late bloomer.
FRANK MCCOURT You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace.
FRANK MCCOURT Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. ...
FRANK MCCOURT Sure, I went through my 'J'accuse' phase. I was so angry for so long, I could hardly hav...
FRANK MCCOURT My dream was to have a Library of Congress catalogue number, that's all.
FRANK MCCOURT I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice....
FRANK MCCOURT O'Casey was writing about people in the streets and his mother and dying babies and poverty. So ...
FRANK MCCOURT You sail into the harbor, and Staten Island is on your left, and then you see the Statue of Liberty....
FRANK MCCOURT There was a kind of madness in the country. Eamon De Valera, the prime minister, had this vision of ...
FRANK MCCOURT Autobiography should be more stringent. It should adhere more to the standards of journalism - assum...
FRANK MCCOURT Just luxuriate in a certain memory, and the details will come. It's like a magnet attracting ste...
FRANK MCCOURT I just wrote the book and was amazed and astounded that it became a bestseller and won the Pulitzer ...
FRANK MCCOURT Something happened when the memoirs of so-called ordinary people, like myself, suddenly hit the best...
FRANK MCCOURT A lot of people say writers start losing their powers after 60 or 65. But I look at the best-seller ...
FRANK MCCOURT It's like a series of waves hitting you. First, getting excerpted in the 'New Yorker' la...
FRANK MCCOURT Mam was always saying we had a simple diet: tea and bread, bread and tea, a liquid and a solid, a ba...
FRANK MCCOURT He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't ...
FRANK MCCOURT I've had experiences on both sides of the ocean and various classrooms and bedrooms around New Y...
FRANK MCCOURT I certainly couldn't have written 'Angela's Ashes' when my mother was alive, because...
FRANK MCCOURT I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in.
FRANK MCCOURT I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who he...
FRANK MCCOURT The master says it’s a glorious thing to die for the Faith and Dad says it’s a glorious thing to...
FRANK MCCOURT I will have the faith... not the faith they want me to have, but another kind of faith which is of m...
FRANK MCCOURT I was unloading sides of beef down on the docks when I decided enough was enough. By then, I'd d...
FRANK MCCOURT For some reason, I wrote about the bed we slept in when I was a kid. It was a half-acre of misery, t...
FRANK MCCOURT If ever you are to be visited by the Holy Ghost, you should make certain you're sitting beside a...
FRANK MCCOURT [Another student, Ken, the son of Korean immigrants, enrages his ambitious father when he decides to...
FRANK MCCOURT The part of Limerick we lived in is Georgian, you know, those Georgian houses. You see them in pictu...
FRANK MCCOURT I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came f...
FRANK MCCOURT The uncluttered life is the key to a good memory.
FRANK MCCOURT Worse than the ordinary, miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the ...
FRANK MCCOURT We were supposed to stay over in Boston, but when Scribners heard I'd won the Pulitzer, they tol...
FRANK MCCOURT If I had millions and millions and millions of dollars, I'd leave a large portion to the 42nd St...
FRANK MCCOURT I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down...
FRANK MCCOURT It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head.
FRANK MCCOURT He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everyth...
FRANK MCCOURT I wanted to avoid all that literary stuff. I didn't want the self pity of 'The Portrait,'...
FRANK MCCOURT I worked in a number of high schools in New York, and I wound up at Stuyvesant High School, which is...
FRANK MCCOURT We don't look at teachers as scholars the way they do in Europe. In Spain you're called a pr...
FRANK MCCOURT The happy childhood is hardly worth your while.
FRANK MCCOURT We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.
FRANK MCCOURT I was tormented. Fear and trembling. And a sense of doom. A literal belief in hell. Hell for eternit...
FRANK MCCOURT There were positive things about the church, that is, in the European cultural sense, the architectu...
FRANK MCCOURT We decided to put in a park and picnic area. It will accommodate about 500 people for groups. We wan...
FRANK MCCOURT I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... I...
FRANK MCCOURT I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in.
FRANK MCCOURT I've stated before that my number one priority as the steward of the Dodgers is winning, and I belie...
FRANK MCCOURT The Dodgers are at a crossroads here. I'm very mindful of this historic franchise's tradition of gre...
FRANK MCCOURT This guy's been affiliated with winners all his life, and consistent winners. The record, I think, s...
FRANK MCCOURT I am not living the American Dream; I am living the American fantasy.
FRANK MCCOURT He has a high level of integrity, he's honest, hard-working, energetic, trustworthy, loyal, takes re...
FRANK MCCOURT Teenagers have two moods: Horny and Hungry.
FRANK MCCOURT I think that the Army, being drafted, was my escape route. I was in the Army for two years, and then...
FRANK MCCOURT I'm very mindful of this franchise's tradition of greatness.
FRANK MCCOURT This is an iconic team in Dodger history. It's not just any other team.
FRANK MCCOURT Viva Los Dodgers has become one of the most anticipated events of the year. We're thrilled to contin...
FRANK MCCOURT Our high expectations were not met.
FRANK MCCOURT I thought I'd go mad. At one point I thought I'd put a plastic bag over my head and jump into the Hu...
FRANK MCCOURT What saved me was my accent, I think I was a bit of a novelty. Otherwise, I certainly didn't have th...
FRANK MCCOURT I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help i...
FRANK MCCOURT I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.
FRANK MCCOURT I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.
FRANK MCCOURT I'm more inclined to go back now because Limerick has changed so much. One of the reasons it was suc...
FRANK MCCOURT I'd just go into a room in my memory and just look around and start seeing things that I'd forgotten...
FRANK MCCOURT I would just circle around certain incidents, like a vulture with carrion, until it yielded up some ...
FRANK MCCOURT The original architects aimed for what was really a quintessential, mid-century, California type of ...
FRANK MCCOURT I had moments with my father that were exquisite - the stories he told me about Cuchulain, the mytho...
FRANK MCCOURT Some, like Mother Teresa, are born with a gene to help the poor, and some are born with a gene to wr...
FRANK MCCOURT When I got out of the army, I had the G.I. Bill. Since I had no high school education or anything li...
FRANK MCCOURT Limerick gained a reputation for piety, but we knew it was only the rain.
FRANK MCCOURT I'm always a great student of writers' work habits. Balzac sat at his desk dressed in a monk...
FRANK MCCOURT He has character, integrity, honesty, loyalty. ... He's trustworthy and accountable. He respects the...
FRANK MCCOURT He has character, integrity, honesty, loyalty. ... He's trustworthy and accountable,
FRANK MCCOURT The poverty and the influence of the church were very damaging. It damaged all of us emotionally. To...
FRANK MCCOURT Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
FRANK MCCOURT When I first came to New York and saw Italian families and their displays of affection, I was taken ...
FRANK MCCOURT Before the famine, which was in the 1840s, that was an emotional turning point... There are various ...
FRANK MCCOURT All those smells... and the kids, we were the great unwashed... nobody ever knew what a shower was.....
FRANK MCCOURT The undertaking here to restore this great ballpark -- the fourth oldest in all the Majors -- is rea...
FRANK MCCOURT And, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the oppo...
FRANK MCCOURT After a full belly all is poetry.
FRANK MCCOURT Early in my teaching days, the kids asked me the meaning of a poem. I replied, 'I don't know...
FRANK MCCOURT But I don't know how I'll ever get a college degree and rise in the world with no high school diplom...
FRANK MCCOURT Stock your mind, stock your mind. It is your house of treasure and no one in the world can interfere...
FRANK MCCOURT Even when I went to the Lion's Head in the Village, where all you journalists would hang out, I ...
FRANK MCCOURT With Angela drawn to the hangdog look and Malachy lonely after three months in jail, there was bound...
FRANK MCCOURT Clarke, define resplendent. I think it’s shining, sir. Pithy, Clarke, but adequate. McCourt, give ...
FRANK MCCOURT Then he placed on my tongue the wafer, the body and blood of Jesus. At last, at last. It’s on my t...
FRANK MCCOURT The English wouldn't give you the steam of their piss.
FRANK MCCOURT There are boys here who have to mend their shoes whatever way they can. There are boys in this class...
FRANK MCCOURT It's lovely to know the world can't interfere with the inside of your head.
FRANK MCCOURT Women stand with their arms folded chatting. They don't sit because all they do is stay at home, tak...
FRANK MCCOURT When she's not talking to him the house is heavy and cold and we know we're not supposed to talk to ...
FRANK MCCOURT You have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind....
FRANK MCCOURT If ever you're getting a dog, Francis, make sure it's a Buddhist. Good-natured dogs, the Buddhists. ...
FRANK MCCOURT Come here till I comb your hair, said Grandma. Look at that mop, it won't lie down. You didn't get t...
FRANK MCCOURT I asked my dad what afflicted meant and he said 'Sickness son, and things that don't fit.
FRANK MCCOURT You never know when you might come home and find Mam sitting by the fire chatting with a woman and a...
FRANK MCCOURT I know that big people don't like questions from children. They can ask all the questions they like,...
FRANK MCCOURT He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everyth...
FRANK MCCOURT I am for who i was in the beginning but now is present and i exist in the future.
FRANK MCCOURT There’s no use saying anything in the schoolyard because there’s always someone with an answer a...
FRANK MCCOURT A mother's love is a blessing
No matter where you roam.
Keep her while you have her,
...
FRANK MCCOURT I say, Billy, what’s the use in playing croquet when you’re doomed?
He says, Frankie, what�...
FRANK MCCOURT When I look back on my childhood I wonder how I survived at all. It was, of course, a miserable chil...
FRANK MCCOURT Love her as in childhood
Through feeble, old and grey.
For you’ll never miss a mother’...
FRANK MCCOURT I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in ...
FRANK MCCOURT Sing your song. Dance your dance. Tell your tale.
FRANK MCCOURT People want real-life stories.
FRANK MCCOURT They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandi...
FRANK MCCOURT You have to give yourself credit, not too much because that would be bragging.
FRANK MCCOURT I never expected to write a book about a slum in Ireland that was going to catapult me, as they say,...
FRANK MCCOURT First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experi...
FRANK MCCOURT I became a teacher all right. I wanted to become a teacher because I had a misconception about it. I...
FRANK MCCOURT Scatter my ashes on the Shannon.
FRANK MCCOURT It's not just Catholic versus Protestant any more. I read somewhere that in any construction site in...
FRANK MCCOURT We were just slogging on from day to day and making the best of it. But with a light at the end of t...
FRANK MCCOURT No one is so busy they can't take time to make a decent cup of tea and if you are that busy you don'...
FRANK MCCOURT Sit and quiet yourself. Luxuriate in a certain memory and the details will come. Let the images flow...
FRANK MCCOURT St. Patrick, bringing the religion to Ireland, this is what we should celebrate.
FRANK MCCOURT In Limerick, a family that was dysfunctional was one who could afford to drink but didn't.
MALACHY MCCOURT A lie to me is a dream that might come true.
MALACHY MCCOURT Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
MALACHY MCCOURT Live every day as if it's going to be your last, and one day, you'll be right.
MALACHY MCCOURT I had the taste of the alcohol since I was 11. It allowed me to be clever, charming and to behave ou...
MALACHY MCCOURT Resentment is like taking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
MALACHY MCCOURT I hope the Catholics don't get a hold of him and make him a saint. That would make him most miserabl...
MALACHY MCCOURT It would take far too long to get in and out of low-cut dresses.
MALACHY MCCOURT A kind of cross between Helen Traubel and Martha Raye an uncanny amalgam of Joan Sutherland and Phyl...
JAMES MCCOURT That second floor was a wonderful adventure. It was cozy. But at the same time we had this feeling o...
MALACHY MCCOURT [Still, it was satisfying to see them humbled.] They're like dirigibles, ... They look huge floating...
MALACHY MCCOURT There's potential for it being soon. The reality is that there are only 'X' positions available, so ...
JAMIE MCCOURT Women have a wonderful opportunity to be a central part of baseball, and if I can help reach some of...
JAMIE MCCOURT Baseball has always been ahead of the game in promoting diversity, and the Dodgers have always been ...
JAMIE MCCOURT Vin Scully is synonymous with Dodger baseball and has been for generations of fans in Los Angeles an...
JAMIE MCCOURT Tonight is really to introduce them to all the opportunities programmatically that we've got going. ...
JAMIE MCCOURT I loved, loved, loved baseball. I would drag my dad to Orioles games, and I would always keep score.
JAMIE MCCOURT About a quarter of the skin of her eye had already been eaten away.
JAMIE MCCOURT We talked about how we were thinking of making this move and what it could mean and Frank says, 'But...
JAMIE MCCOURT I didn't do that, did I?
MALACHY MCCOURT boys, girls and music . . why do they need gin?
FRANK Whoever is happy will make others happy too.
ANNE FRANK The best music happens when you have a personal connection to it. That same philosophy can extend to...
FRANK IERO I'm not one of those complicated, mixed-up cats. I'm not looking for the secret to life... I...
FRANK SINATRA The best revenge is massive success.
FRANK SINATRA There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life.
FRANK ZAPPA Mobile video is now a reality and a force to be reckoned with. I think it is essential to think abou...
ZE FRANK I've been super impressed with what BuzzFeed has done on Facebook with inspiring list posts and ...
ZE FRANK We have this incredible ability to communicate with each other. I want to play around with it, see w...
ZE FRANK For some reason, we stopped getting gold stars at some age. It's time to bring them back.
ZE FRANK If you want to get into the creative world, you have to just keep flogging away even when nobody'...
ZE FRANK I consider creativity to be a more non-rational, subconscious thing. You have a relationship to your...
ZE FRANK YouTube has become more mature, both as a platform and as a community. So much content has been adde...
ZE FRANK I'm fascinated by simple joy.
ZE FRANK We can't all be like Ryan Seacrest... the perfect platform manifestation of a human. I don't...
ZE FRANK What better way to connect with people than by staring and talking straight at them? Don't blink...
ZE FRANK I'm obsessed with media and the way audiences can become creative participants.
ZE FRANK I've been fascinated by the Internet from the very start. In 2001, I had made a funny black-and-...
ZE FRANK In an ever-changing technological landscape, where today's platforms are not tomorrow's plat...
ZE FRANK Trust is a confusing thing. It seems so simple, but when you try to pin it down, it can be so elusiv...
ZE FRANK Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.
ZE FRANK Most of us yearn for really intimate, healthy, in-person relationships. People have a deep desire to...
ZE FRANK The naked mole is, like, the ugliest freakin' creature in the world. It is so radically, unbelie...
ZE FRANK When I was young, I had this feeling that there was this handbook that I had never gotten that expla...
ZE FRANK On street corners everywhere, people are looking at their cell phones, and it's easy to dismiss ...
ZE FRANK I studied neuroscience at the cellular level, so I was looking at learning and memory in the visual ...
ZE FRANK The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.
ZE FRANK I think this is one of the greatest gifts of this era: Because of the Internet, we can start to type...
ZE FRANK Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... ...
ZE FRANK A good procrastination should feel like you're inserting lots and lots of commas into the senten...
ZE FRANK Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff.
FRANK ZAPPA What is a friend? I will tell you... it is someone with whom you dare to be yourself.
FRANK CRANE My grandfather was smart and had a whole lot of pride. He didn't speak a terrible amount, but yo...
FRANK OCEAN When I was a kid, my father didn't really have much hope for me. He thought I was a dreamer; he ...
FRANK GEHRY There's enough pressure in life without seeking competition. That makes it double pressure.
FRANK BRUNO Who would ever think that so much went on in the soul of a young girl?
ANNE FRANK I live in a crazy time.
ANNE FRANK For some reason, Superman seems to be held to higher standards on the subject of secret/super identi...
GARY FRANK Experience has taught me how important it is to just keep going, focusing on running fast and relaxe...
FRANK SHORTER Don't follow trends, start trends.
FRANK CAPRA Time is money, especially when you are talking to a lawyer or buying a commercial.
FRANK DANE I searched for years I found no love. I'm sure that love will never be a product of plasticity.
FRANK ZAPPA I was a thug.
FRANK OCEAN A good motto is: use friendliness but do not use your friends.
FRANK CRANE I booked my first studio at like 12 or 13. Somewhere in that season of my life, singing along with t...
FRANK OCEAN I always say that I don't want to be sentimental, that the photographs shouldn't be sentimen...
ROBERT FRANK I have been frequently accused of deliberately twisting subject matter to my point of view. Above al...
ROBERT FRANK You do your work as a photographer and everything becomes past. Words are more like thoughts; the ph...
ROBERT FRANK It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
ROBERT FRANK There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography...
ROBERT FRANK If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.
FRANK LANE You gotta love livin', baby, 'cause dyin' is a pain in the ass.
FRANK SINATRA I just can't think how I would go on without children having lost Edith already... It's too ...
OTTO FRANK We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but ...
OTTO FRANK I think there are a number of bishops - and I put Cardinal Mahony in that category - who listen too ...
FRANK KEATING Bishops are like umpires. You have to have them to call the close decisions.
FRANK BUTLER We've all read, I'm sure, a Superman book where we didn't really feel like we knew the c...
GARY FRANK Christopher Reeve so completely inhabited the character Superman when he was in that costume, and th...
GARY FRANK