Quotes About Frank McCourt

I'm more interested in writing than in performing.

Limerick gained a reputation for piety, but we knew it was only the rain.

Frank McCourt is a great guy.

If ever you're getting a dog, Francis, make sure it's a Buddhist. Good-natured dogs, the Buddhists. Never, never get a Mahommedan. They'll eat you sleeping. Never a Catholic dog. They'll eat you every day including Fridays.

They can afford to smile because they all have teeth so dazzling if they dropped them in the snow they'd be lost forever.

Clarke, define resplendent. I think it's shining, sir. Pithy, Clarke, but adequate. McCourt, give us a sentence with pithy. Clarke is pithy but adequate, sir. Adroit, McCourt. You have a mind for the priesthood, my boy, or politics. Think of that.

Samuel Beckett was saying, in a new biography, that he could remember being in the womb, which, of course, is a bit far-fetched. But he's an Irishman, so nothing's too far-fetched.

Ooh, aren't we getting solemn, and where did I leave my soapbox? Look

Shakespeare es como el puré de patatas, no cansa nunca.

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

I don't know what it means and I don't care because it's Shakespeare and it's like having jewels in my mouth when I say the words.

We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.

The main thing I am interested in is my experience as a teacher.