Colum McCann Quotes

I'm much more interested in allowing a story to happen, and people find whatever meaning is in there.

Colum McCann

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

PeopleStoryMeaningFindMoreMuch

I don't know how it would play out it the long run, if I were go to series with the story, I don't know. I just miss Peter so much on a personal level, that's about what I can say. He's my buddy and I wish he were around.

Andreas Katsulas

StoryWishLongI CanPlayRun

There must be a positive and negative in everything in the universe in order to complete a circuit or circle, without which there would be no activity, no motion.

John McDonald

PositiveNegativeUniverseCircle

'Ray Donovan' was all fiction and pure fun, to be working with such greats as Liev Schreiber and Jon Voight. My character was recurring, but my storyline was intricate to the whole thing. With the character that I played, I got to go through all aspects of my instrument. I got to bring it to tears and to laughter.

Johnathon Schaech

CharacterFunLaughterTearsGo

Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the deepest valleys; look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even unto death.

Sun Tzu

ChildrenDeathStandYouLookWill

I think that's one of the most important gifts we have in television - the ability to heal through laughter.

Soleil Moon Frye

LaughterThinkTelevisionImportant

In the early Seventies, I had shoulder-length hair, bell-bottom pants, love beads and shirts that laced up at the front. But then I smartened up.

Tom Ford

LoveHairEarlyPantsUpSeventies

There have been times I've finished a big job and thought, 'Great, a couple of weeks off.' But then a couple of weeks turns to three weeks and then after a month you're staring at the phone willing it to ring.

Johnny Vegas

GreatJobThoughtYouPhoneThree

I believe that there is a bipartisan consensus to have individual mandates.

Chuck Grassley

BelieveI BelieveIndividualMandates

When you're entertaining, and I still haven't accomplished this because I'm always stuck in the kitchen, but spend enough time actually with your guests. It allows you to chill with your friends and be an actual, normal human as opposed to being in the kitchen cooking all the time.

Antoni Porowski

TimeCookingKitchenChillFriends

For I do not seek to understand in order to believe, but I believe in order to understand. For I believe this: unless I believe, I will not understand.

Anselm of Canterbury

BelieveUnderstandWillI Believe

To be in 'Vogue' has to mean something. It's an endorsement. It's a validation.

Anna Wintour

MeanValidationSomethingEndorsement

Little girls and little boys need to have role models to look up to and know that, 'I'm not the first one. I'm not having to do this for the first time ever. Others have blazed the trail before me, and I can follow in their footsteps and do the same thing.'

Allison Schroeder

TimeMeLittle GirlsLookI Can

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