Angela's Ashes Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. You know you're down and out when Okies laugh at you,' she said. With our garbage bag taped window, our tied down hood, and art supplies strapped to the roof, we'd out-Okied the Okies.

Jeannette Walls

#7. Color is like music. The palette is an instrument that can be orchestrated to build form.

John French Sloan

#8. I had arrived years ago in Paris and just wanted to be famous, fast. When you're pretentious like that, and you think you've planned everything perfectly, it's then that everything goes in the opposite way.

Yael Naim

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

Frank McCourt

#10. The body cannot be cured without regard for the soul.

Socrates

#11. But I couldn't absorb the idea that death could actually walk by my side, with a human face and a heart that was poisoned with hatred.

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

#12. I can't afford to live in reaction to darkness. If I do, darkness has had a role in setting the agenda for my life. The devil is not worthy of such influence, even in the negative. Jesus lived in response to the Father. I must learn to do the same.

Bill Johnson

#13. Not blemishes. Adornments.

Ian McEwan

#14. I often tell people in the clinics, the human possesses the one thing that means more to the horse than anything in the world, and that is peace and comfort,

Buck Brannaman