Colm Toibin Quotes

I think the whole business of people emigrating was that no one ever told them, although everyone knew, especially if it was to the United States, that it was forever, and the party before you left was called an 'American wake,' in the sense that they knew you wouldn't come back.

Colm Toibin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

BusinessPeopleThinkAmericanYou

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

GovernmentEasyDifficultRule

Tragically, the effort to make America and the world safer and to defend freedom around the world is not without an enormous cost to this Nation in terms primarily of lost lives and those who bear the scars and the wounds of war, and their families who must bear these losses.

John Warner

FreedomWarEffortWorldAmerica

All in all, we'll just do well as a team. We've got a great group of guys, and they're just willing to work. That's what I like being around, just dudes who want to enjoy it and just work really hard.

Steven Adams

WorkGreatTeamEnjoyWantGroup

My elder brother and sister were both sporty and academic, and I think, subconsciously, I knew I couldn't go down that avenue.

Rose Leslie

BrotherSisterThinkDownGoElder

I am the owner of my prosthetic manufacturing business, BioDapt, which manufactures lower-limb prosthetics for sports.

Mike Schultz

BusinessSportsI AmManufacturing

I was quite the quiet teenager. I was a bit of a loner, a little bit of an outsider.

Mika

QuietOutsiderLittleLonerQuite

I come from a big family of storytellers and, growing up, I liked hearing about the years before I was born.

Molly Antopol

FamilyGrowing UpBornGrowingBig

Montreal is a great town. There's equal parts blue-collar town.

Jay Baruchel

GreatEqualBlue-CollarMontreal

I've struggled with an identity sometimes; I don't know what exactly I am. I love so many types of music, and I don't want to commit to going down one road.

Brandon Flowers

LoveMusicI AmIdentityRoadDown

Except for a few episodes, I have not watched any of my shows. I don't think I like to watch myself on TV. I get very critical about what I am saying.

Mouni Roy

MyselfI AmSayingThinkWatchGet

I made a game effort to argue but two things were against me: the umpires and the rules.

Leo Durocher

EffortMeGameRulesTwoAgainst

I made a crash landing here on Earth on February 14, 1962, in the Shreveport Catholic Charities Home for un-wed mothers. The infamous Bonnie and Clyde lost their lives just miles from where I was born. Like outlaws ourselves, my birth mother and I were on the run from the day she found out I was part of her.

Kevyn Aucoin

MotherHomeDayFebruaryBornEarth

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