Angela S Ashes Quotes

#1. It was a long time ago: 'Angela's Ashes' by Frank McCourt. It was a great story that was lasting, and I loved it so much. I also love Nora Ephron. I gobble up everything she writes. Also, I love Anthony Bourdain, very irreverent and funny.

Isabel Gillies

#2. My very first acting job was with Alan Parker on' Angela's Ashes,' but as a child, I had written to so many other productions just applying for any role. I always wanted to be an actress, and I did loads of acting summer schools.

Kerry Condon

#3. I love memoirs and biographies, learning about other people's lives. Two of the ones that I loved so much were actually edited by the same person who edited my book, too. I loved 'Angela's Ashes.' I loved 'Glass Castle' so much.

Isabel Gillies

#4. Fiorito has all the right stuff. His splendid memoir about his relationship with his dying father belongs on that small shelf with Philip Roth's Patrimony and Frank McCourt's Angela's Ashes.

Mordecai Richler

#5. I was a cub reporter on a local newspaper in Limerick city, and I used to cover the district court meetings. All of life passed through the Limerick courthouse. Misery, malevolence, the dark side of humanity ... I tell ya, it made 'Angela's Ashes' look like 'The Wonderful World of Disney.'

Kevin Barry

#6. It was a family joke that Lydia's domestic tendencies were somehow misplaced when she was created.

Lawana Blackwell

#7. Married and buried, wed and dead.

Rachel Caine

#8. The intimate and meditative form that Plutarch became known for was completely new in his day.

John D'Agata

#9. When you see Major League Baseball putting academies in other countries, obviously that throws up a red flag. You wonder why they ain't going up in our neighborhood. Bottom line, what I see, I talk about ... I see it over and over. If anybody can show me I'm wrong, then show me.

Gary Sheffield

#10. Look within. Beyond all the mental noise of thoughts, there is a space of purity, compassion and joy. That is love.

Rashmit Kalra

#11. Actona is a healthy company with strong values, very competent management and a solid organisation.

Lars Larsen

#12. I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook.

Joshua Lederberg

#13. I want to warn against the Fifth Column which is trying to hinder our free way of life in Holland.

Theo Van Gogh

#14. We must be careful how we flatter fools too little, or wise men too much, for the flatterer must act the very reverse of the physician, and administer the strongest dose only to the weakest patient.

Charles Caleb Colton

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

Frank McCourt

#16. The next time someone gets on your nerves, remember your two choices: 1) share the problem; or 2) let them keep the problem to themselves.

David P. Ingerson

#17. No one wants the United Nations to suffer the fate of the League of Nations, which collapsed because it lacked real leverage. This is possible if influential countries bypass the United Nations and take military action without Security Council authorization.

Vladimir Putin