Colum McCann Quotes

'Let the Great World Spin' at the end talks a lot about connections and light and possibility and the fact that the world doesn't end. Even in the darkest times, we have to go on.

Colum McCann

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

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

Topics

GreatLightWorldEndConnections

Dad never misses a chance to remind me that whenever we are travelling together, if 100 people mob him for autographs, five approach me.

Jeev Milkha Singh

TogetherPeopleMeChanceNeverHim

The sea heaves up, hangs loaded o'er the land, Breaks there, and buries its tumultuous strength.

Robert Browning

StrengthSeaLandUpBreaksLoaded

I love Ashford & Simpson, and I love the Brothers Gibb. They are amazing.

RuPaul

LoveAmazingBrothersI LoveSimpson

Most of the people I write about have been ambitious outlanders who have been attracted to New York from other parts of the world.

Jay McInerney

New YorkPeopleWorldNewWriteWho

I think being an outcast is what sort of strengthens the nerd movement, because you're isolated, so you have time.

Chris Hardwick

TimeThinkYouMovementOutcast

I've been really interested and inspired by Nan Goldin, the photographer.

Ari Graynor

PhotographerInspiredBeenInterested

Mr. C. Klackner has for sale four etchings etched by myself, at the expense of two years' time & hard work - 'The Life Line,' 'Peril on the Sea,' 'Eight Bells,' 'Mending Tears,' - all of which are very good and should have been put forward long ago, but C. Klackner is waiting for me to die, is my idea of the matter.

Winslow Homer

LifeWorkHard WorkGoodSeaMyself

We are just at the studio, me and my choreographers, we are spending like 30 nights and we are thinking, what is my next dance move? Because in Korea there are huge expectations about my dancing. So it was a lot of pressure.

Psy

DanceMeExpectationsThinkingNext

I think my first client other than my brother was this kid named Tallent. I was charging him eight dollars an hour to record in my room. He kept coming back, then I went up to ten dollars an hour.

Syd

BrotherThinkBackFirstKidRoom

Oh my God. Brian De Palma. I love him.

Petra Collins

LoveGodHimBrianOhI Love

To increase aid to the Pakistan government when religious freedom is not upheld is tantamount to an anti-Christian foreign policy.

Keith O'Brien

FreedomGovernmentPolicyPakistan

There's this idea of bankers retiring and painting watercolours. You can't dabble in art - it's a life. Being a writer, an artist... is a whole life.

Justin Cartwright

LifeArtPaintingYouArtistWhole

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