#went

He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#belfast #brooklyn #came #drank #funeral

They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I. ↗

— Frank McCourt

#bar #because #began #business #i

Solitude terrifies the soul at twenty. ↗

— Moliere

#soul #terrifies #twenty

A number of girls of my acquaintance went to school to the nuns of the Congregational Nunnery, or Sisters of Charity, as they are sometimes called. ↗

— Maria Monk

#called #charity #number #nunnery #nuns

I figured, if I failed, I'd tried something that I hadn't tried before and if one movie was going to destroy my career than I didn't have much of a career to start with. I just went for it. God willing I wasn't over the top and didn't embarrass myself. ↗

— Elizabeth Pena

#career #destroy #embarrass #failed #figured

I went to college, but I learned to write by reading - and writing. ↗

— Daniel Pinkwater

#i #learned #reading #went #write

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would. I'd spend all my life without ever going to China, but it wouldn't matter, because there was all the rest of the world to visit. ↗

— Philip Pullman

#being #being in love #china #doubt #ever

It wouldn't sit easily on one's conscience that you had been warned and there could be danger, but nevertheless you went ahead and said let's dispense these drugs. ↗

— Thabo Mbeki

#been #conscience #could #danger #dispense

I went to school every day, like everyone else, and I played baseball for my high school team. I was a part of a lot of different activities outside of school. ↗

— Jesse McCartney

#baseball #day #different #else #every

Everything was very specific and very fitted. I can't tell you what we went through for this job in regards to full body scans and the prosthetic process that you go through and all that kind of stuff, but everything was done very specifically to fit you perfectly. ↗

— Julian McMahon

#done #everything #fit #fitted #full