Colum McCann Quotes

I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I don't think a fiction writer has anything over a journalist. It's all about the good word, properly inserted.

Colum McCann

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GoodTruthBelieveThinkBetter

Virtue is a positive quality developed by taking a firm stand for the right in temptation, or by the suffering endured in consequence of wrongdoing.

Max Heindel

PositiveQualitySufferingStand

When you think about brands and movie studios and everybody who is trying to reach millennials, having a captive audience in the back of Lyft or an Uber is a pretty great place.

Troy Carter

GreatThinkReachTryingYouBack

Since 1975, violence has been recognized as a public health problem, in large part to former Surgeon Generals Dr. Koop and Dr. Satcher's pioneering efforts to make the health approach a national priority. Since then, we've seen that violence can be curbed - and stopped - if we treat it as we would any other epidemic health concern.

Mike Quigley

HealthTreatProblemViolenceSeen

There's a whole generation of women who never really heard the word investment before, when it came to fashion. They've been buying things because they were cheap.

Michael Kors

WomenFashionGenerationInvestment

The only way to be happy and be a more enjoyable person to be around is to embrace what you've got. Everyone has issues about their body, but I feel confident now. I'm healthy and happy.

Mischa Barton

HappyBe HappyConfidentYouBody

I had always wanted to be a writer who confused genre boundaries and who was read in multiple contexts.

Jonathan Lethem

ConfusedAlwaysBoundariesWriter

Whoever you're playing against, you want to do as well as you can.

Dele Alli

YouWantPlayingAgainstWell

The worst thing we can do is to do nothing.

Brad Henry

NothingWorstWorst ThingThing

Only an intervention by women around the world, with their innate knowledge of interdependency, deep listening, empathy and self-sacrifice, could possibly alter our species' desperate course.

Anohni

WomenKnowledgeEmpathyWorldDeep

Masculinity is a terrible problem, as we construe it and shape it.

Susan Griffin

ProblemMasculinityShapeTerrible

I don't get the conga line started. I'm not a great choice if the goal of the evening is just a celebration. But if we're going to talk about what's been going on lately, then I can bring something to the table.

Seth Meyers

GreatEveningTableChoiceGoal

It's a cruel, heartless world out there in commercial rock 'n' roll, and when you take as much time off as we did, eight years, booking agents don't know if you'll draw.

Tina Weymouth

TimeWorldYouKnowRockOut

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