Colm Toibin Quotes

You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you've made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who's been sent away to boarding school can understand that.

Colm Toibin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: May 30, 1955

Topics

HomeYourselfSchoolWorldYouBack

They were without clothes before I got there, and they were without clothes when I left.

Jock Sturges

ClothesWithoutLeftGotBefore

The Misfits pretty much funds the Misfits. It used to cost me money to be in the band. I think we got paid the last gig we ever did. After that, we had to work to support our families.

Jerry Only

WorkMoneySupportMeThinkBand

One of the principles of nonviolence is that you leave your opponents whole and better off than you found them.

Andrew Young

BetterYouPrinciplesLeaveOff

I'll never forget my interview with Barry Humphries - one of the oddest I've ever done. He insisted that for half the time he appeared as Dame Edna. So I interviewed the real Barry Humphries in a suit and tie, and then I interviewed Edna in full fig in her dressing room, where she criticised Barry mercilessly.

Melvyn Bragg

TimeNever ForgetDoneForgetNever

They're like sleeping in a soft bed. Easy to get into and hard to get out of.

Johnny Bench

EasyBedSleepingHardOutGet

The Internet amplifies power in all respects. It can grossly exaggerate the power of the individual.

John Perry Barlow

PowerInternetIndividualExaggerate

The first time I wore a head scarf, I was 16. I looked and felt like a nun. I missed the wind in my hair. For me, it was not a comfortable thing to wear.

Mona Eltahawy

TimeMeWindHairMissedScarf

Where are the exhortations for children to reject the self-defeating stereotypes that reduce black people to violent, oversexed 'gangstas,' minstrel show comedians and mindless athletes?

Juan Williams

ChildrenPeopleBlackStereotypes

In ultralight backpacking, modified gear pieces come into play, like a tent you hoist with your trekking poles.

Jay Duplass

YouPlayPiecesComeTentYour

When people see my makeup, they think all types of crazy things that I'm doing to my skin, but it's makeup. It's the weirdest thing. They'll see contouring and think you had surgery on your nose. No. No. No. Look at 'RuPaul's Drag Race' and you'll see... you can make your nose look... what ever shape you want it.

Nicki Minaj

PeopleCrazyMakeupThinkDoingYou

I ultimately want to contribute something toward bettering human relations.

Murray Head

WantHumanSomethingHuman Relations

In my perfect day, I wake up next to the woman of my dreams, and she's crying tears of joy because she's so excited about the life we have together. I'm preparing to compete in the 2016 Olympics with U.S.A. Team Handball, so I head to an intense training session with my coach to increase my physical strength and athleticism.

Lewis Howes

LifeStrengthDreamsDayTogether

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