64 Quotes by Malachy McCourt

I would like to do away with all kind of - all weapons. A dream - totally. Including the bow an arrow.

There were a few people who got jobs in Limerick, a big barrel on wheels, and it was a barrel that went back and forth, and a shovel and a broom. So, they went around shoveling the horseshit into this barrel. So, you got that job when you were around 15, and then you got to retire at the age of 65, with a pension. A small pension. So that would be 50 years of shoveling horseshit. And I was advised very seriously that I should get that job.

That's my punishment in hell, shoveling horseshit.

Do whatever you want because that's not what you are. That's what you do for the moment.

The Supreme Court gives corporations the same rights as a human being. It's absurd. You can't do that.

I had great faith that perhaps this man Obama would do something, but he is, we're all in the grip of big money.

The alcoholism got me and I ruined my first marriage with drinking and the lying and the deceit and infidelity, and all of that. The whole bloody thing.

I've been sober for 25. And every day I am very grateful that I don't drink.

It's one day at a time, that's all there is to it, and so I don't have to worry about it. All I do is, okay, I do not have to drink. And if I feel like it, I postpone it for ten minutes, and that way I find something else to do in the meantime.