Colum McCann Quotes

If you're a writer, you know there are ways in which we don't know what we're doing at all. We're working out mysteries in a sort of poetic realm, and hoping that if a story is honest, if you're dragging the deep truth out of yourself, then something good and profound might come out of it.

Colum McCann

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: writer
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: February 28, 1965

Topics

GoodTruthYourselfStoryDeepYou

I have a lot of fun with guns, especially the M-16, but my favourite is my little .22. It fits nicely in the palm of your hand. I do limit myself to blanks.

Jeri Ryan

MyselfFunHandPalmLimitGuns

I would like to have two or three kids.

Matt Harvey

ThreeTwoWouldLikeKids

As can be seen even by this limited number of examples proteins carry out amazingly diverse functions.

Michael Behe

OutCarrySeenNumberEvenProteins

I love coffee.

John Ross Bowie

LoveCoffeeI Love

For the first time in a while, I must be honest, I really genuinely look forward to coming to work every day.

Treat Williams

WorkTimeDayForwardLookFirst

You are always trying to please people before you get to the public whenever you do anything that requires a corporate body to sanction it.

Rita Rudner

PeopleTryingYouBodyAnythingGet

I had gotten a lot of acclaim for giving a previously dead franchise, 'Hawk & Dove,' a facelift.

Rob Liefeld

GivingDeadHawkDoveFranchiseHad

If they were siblings, 'Hairless Toys' would be the nice child, and 'Take Her Up to Monto' is more of a problem child.

Roisin Murphy

ChildProblemNiceToysMoreUp

Chew on this: Human teeth can detect a grain of sand or grit 10 microns in diameter. A micron is 1/25,000 of an inch. If you shrank a Coke can until it was the diameter of a human hair, the letter O in the product name would be about 10 microns across.

Mary Roach

HairNameGritSandYouTeeth

This is a global economy. If you're not at the bargaining table, if you don't get an agreement, someone else does.

Mike Quigley

SomeoneYouTableEconomyAgreement

I'd read about Alexander Imich, a Polish-born 'psychic researcher,' in 'The New York Times' not long after he'd turned 111 and had been declared the oldest man on earth.

Michael Paterniti

ManNew YorkLongEarthNewBeen

The Chinaman has only a passive courage, but this courage he possesses in the highest degree. His indifference to death is truly extraordinary. When he is ill, he sees it approach, and does not falter. When condemned, and already in the hands of an officer, he manifests no fear.

Jules Verne

FearCourageDeathHandsNo Fear

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