87 ordspråk av Frank McCourt
Frank McCourt
 It's not just Catholic versus Protestant any more. I read somewhere that in any construction site in Belfast, they have protection rackets. And you have to clear your trucking with the IRA, just like the Mafia here. |
| It's very important our general manager and manager are on the same page. Then everybody else gets on the same page, and it's something quite powerful when you're moving in the same direction. You can't be pulling and tugging in different directions. |
| Kids are constantly comparing, especially teenagers, constantly comparing themselves with other people. And when you're ragged and you're physically, almost repulsive, as I was, with infected eyes and rotting teeth and so on, and clothes that were ragged, I had no self-esteem. How could I? |
| My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn. |
| My mother died in New York... she was cremated, and we took her ashes to Ireland one week and scattered the ashes on her family's gravesite. |
| Only about 15 years ago, there was an item in my hometown paper... about a young couple arrested on the main street in Limerick for kissing, and fined for public displays of something or other... you're not supposed to do that. That's all changing now. |
| Our high expectations were not met. |
| Samuel Beckett was saying, in a new biography, that he could remember being in the womb, which, of course, is a bit farfetched. But he's an Irishman, so nothing's too farfetched. |
| Something happened to the spirit in the famine, and they retreated into their caverns and into themselves. And they haven't come out. |
| Teacher Man: A Memoir, |
| Teenagers have two moods: Horny and Hungry. |
| That in turn gave us additional leg room, and we used that leg room to install an old-fashioned field-box amenity, a baseball box for four or eight seats, where you have your own piece of Dodger Stadium. Because we have the extra leg room, as a result from removing the rows, we were able to put in a table amenity and some storage area. |
| The Dodgers are a club steeped with a rich history, ... The 1955 team had a brilliant season and began the Dodgers' incredible world championship legacy. We are honored to commemorate the 50th anniversary of this great team's achievement, as these players left an indelible mark on our history. |
| The Dodgers are at a crossroads here, ... I'm very mindful of this historic franchise's tradition of greatness. |
| The Dodgers are at a crossroads here. I'm very mindful of this historic franchise's tradition of greatness. |
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