#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

However, ironically, I was baptized Presbyterian, and went to a Quaker school for twelve years. ↗

— Brian De Palma

#however #i #ironically #presbyterian #quaker

This may sound funny, but as much as the 'Today' show matured me, it also was something of a cocoon. I'd been happy there. I never went into the boss's office and pounded my fist on the desk, saying, 'Give me more money! Give me a prime-time show!' ↗

— Jane Pauley

#been #boss #cocoon #desk #fist

There weren't any astronauts until I was about 10. Yuri Gagarin went into space right around my 10th birthday. ↗

— John L. Phillips

#any #around #astronauts #birthday #i

It started last year, during the summer. I went to the doctor and they found out it was kidney stones, so they had surgery done to help get those out and to pass them... More just kept coming in. So I had all together before the last show... I had like five surgeries. ↗

— Phillip Phillips

#coming #doctor #done #during #five

I was like a kept woman during my twenty-one years at MGM. ↗

— Walter Pidgeon

#i #kept #like #mgm #twenty-one

I think movies lost a lot when they went to stereo and five-track sound. ↗

— Sam Raimi

#i think #lost #lot #movies #sound