Colum Mccann Quotes: top 100 famous quotes about Colum Mccann

Colum Mccann Quotes & Sayings

Happy to read and share the best inspirational Colum Mccann quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.

There are no days more full than those we go back to. — Colum McCann

A book is completed only when it is finished by a reader. — Colum McCann

It was a silence that heard itself, awful and beautiful. — Colum McCann

There was something in the music of the accent that Douglass liked: it was as if the Cork people put long lazy hammocks in their sentences. — Colum McCann

not many follicles among the oracles. — Colum McCann

They looked ruined and decrepit, the sort of men who'd soon turn into empty chairs. — Colum McCann

although i know that a wall to happiness is expecting too much happiness — Colum McCann

The old days, they arrive back in the oddest ways, suddenly taut, breaking the surface, a salmon leap. — Colum McCann

What monstrous things, our pasts, especially when they have been lovely. — Colum McCann

The stars looked like nail heads in the sky
pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall. — Colum McCann

You can count the dead, but you can't count the cost. We've got no math for Heaven ... — Colum McCann

She's always thought that one of the beauties of New York is that you can be from anywhere and within moments of landing its yours. — Colum McCann

There'll be lawyers in heaven before you see somethin' so good again. — Colum McCann

Darkness doesn't fall, he thought as he swayed to the radio, it rises up from the bottom of the sea and begins to breathe around us. — Colum McCann

The wind surged in a roar, then died down like it was pondering some heavy shit, then started back up like before. — Colum McCann

I think we're moving toward moments of grace and understanding. And I think these things take time. — Colum McCann

I'm not God.
Then find someone who is, man. — Colum McCann

She might not have been party to love, but it still took a lot of volume to fill a life. — Colum McCann

Every man with his own peculiar vice. His will hardly rock heaven or hell. — Colum McCann

At what whirling moment had she halted and turned, unbeknownst to herself, the other way? — Colum McCann

I think the Northern Ireland accent is one of the most beautiful in the world. — Colum McCann

My wardrobe is drab. I could spend six weeks in the same jeans. Most everything I have is blue or black, but certainly not cool. — Colum McCann

We could not have found peace unless the desire for it was already here. — Colum McCann

The air felt suddenly shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before. — Colum McCann

The thing about love is that we come alive in bodies not our own. — Colum McCann

This is not my life. These are not my cobwebs. This is not the darkness I was designed for. — Colum McCann

Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do. — Colum McCann

Women in long dresses, aloof and elegant, the mark of bonnet ribbons still on the soft of their necks. — Colum McCann

The Irish are great for their tunes, but all their lovesongs are sad and their warsongs happy. — Colum McCann

For all its imagined moments, literature works in unimaginable ways. — Colum McCann

I'm only telling you on the truth," he said. "If you can't stand the truth, don't ask for it. — Colum McCann

Nothing was simple, certainly not simplification. — Colum McCann

I write articles, and I do profiles of members of organizations and associations. — Colum McCann

They inherited it all. The curse of privilege. Janitors for the ambitions of the dead. — Colum McCann

Yet she likes complications. She wishes she could turn and say: I like people who unbalance me. — Colum McCann

- What is it about wine, Harry?
- What d'ya mean?
- What is it that cures us?
- Made to glorify the gods. And dull the idiots. — Colum McCann

People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best day nobody's perfect. — Colum McCann

But being rational about it didn't cure it. — Colum McCann

you soon find out how loud the silence really is. everything unsaid leads eventually to what is said. — Colum McCann

He realized that he had thought only about the first step, never imagined the last. — Colum McCann

He caught a glimpse in the mirror the other day, and how in tarnation did I acquire the face of my father's father? — Colum McCann

The world does not turn without moments of grace. Who cares how small. — Colum McCann

There comes a point when, tired of losing, you decide to stop failing yourself, or at least to try, or to send up the final flare, one last chance. — Colum McCann

In another life I would have liked to be a poet, I just can't stop the lines in time, so I'm a novelist. — Colum McCann

One goes up in a plane knowing, sometimes, that not all of you is going to come down. — Colum McCann

The person we know at first, she thinks, is not the one we know at last. — Colum McCann

And what is it we give our children anyway, except the ability to not become us? — Colum McCann

She had told Jaslyn once that everyone knows where they are from when they know where it is they want to be buried. — Colum McCann

Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't. — Colum McCann

Then the clouds curtsy in, the rain kneels upon the land, and the weather knocks them back a whole day and a half. — Colum McCann

Part of the beauty of fiction is that we come alive in a body that we don't own. — Colum McCann

Cynicism is easy. An optimist is a braver cynic. — Colum McCann

We stumble on, thinks Jaslyn, bring a little noise into the silence, find in others the ongoing of ourselves. It is almost enough. — Colum McCann

That's what I like about God. You get to know Him by His occasional absence. — Colum McCann

Are you saying I'm a liar?
No I'm just, like, speaking. — Colum McCann

He looks like the sort of man who can't afford to leave, and doesn't want to stay, and so he is doing both at once. — Colum McCann

A single man, he said he loved women but preferred engines. — Colum McCann

Another day, another dolor. — Colum McCann

We seldom know what echo our actions will find, but our stories will most certainly outlast us. — Colum McCann

Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. — Colum McCann

And it strikes her, as she walks, that borders, like hatred, are exaggerated precisely because otherwise they would cease to exist altogether. — Colum McCann

banging saucepans to ring in the new year? — Colum McCann

Someone was high or brilliant or both. — Colum McCann

If you think you know all the secrets, you think you know all the cures. — Colum McCann

They bobbed back and forth, little Halloween apples. — Colum McCann

What was life anyway? An accumulation of small shelves if incident. Stacked at odd angles to each other. — Colum McCann

A bottle of gin sat in the center of the table. More emptiness than gin in the bottle. — Colum McCann

When I sat down beside them, their silence was lined with tenderness. We have to admire the world for not ending on us. — Colum McCann

The point of flight. To get rid of oneself. That was reason enough to fly. — Colum McCann

Oh, the mind itself is a deep, deep well. Lower me down and let me touch water. — Colum McCann

An optimist is a braver cynic. — Colum McCann

I have different books for different times of the day, let alone different seasons of the year! — Colum McCann

He might have been naive, but he didn't care; he said he's rather die with his heart on his sleeve than end up another cynic. — Colum McCann

He could be in any mood or any place and, unbidden, it returned. — Colum McCann

The true nature of a democracy is its ability to say yes when even the powerful say no — Colum McCann

Sometimes, in life, nothing happens. But, sometimes, nothing happens beautifully. — Colum McCann

He was there, he said, to raise just a single hat, but eventually that hat would raise the heavens. He would go forth as a slave no more. — Colum McCann

It was as if they wanted to take their older bodies and put their younger hearts inside. — Colum McCann

If your life doesn't flash in front of your eyes, old boy, does that mean you've had no life at all? — Colum McCann

I have the most charmed, most - I feel entirely blessed and lucky that I have the life that I have. — Colum McCann

I suppose one finally learns, after much searching, that we really only belong to ourselves. — Colum McCann

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

So, leave the cynics be. Out-cynic them. Step into that elsewhere. Believe that your story is bigger than yourself. In — Colum McCann

The disconnect between his mouth and his mind. That's where the camera came in. It was the unspoken thing between him and the others. — Colum McCann

He felt for a moment uncreated. Another kind of awake. — Colum McCann

So you want to be a dancer? I asked. I want to dance better than I already do, he said. — Colum McCann

All this miraculous hatred. Christ, a man can't eat his breakfast for filling his belly full of it. — Colum McCann

The smallest moments: they return, dwell, endure. — Colum McCann

There is always room for at least two truths. — Colum McCann

At a certain stage every single thing can be a sign. — Colum McCann

I was a raw, quiet child, and God was already a bore to me. — Colum McCann

He was holding the image of his own people up: sometimes it was weight enough to stagger under. — Colum McCann

Nobody falls halfway — Colum McCann

He was the son of his son
he was here, he was left behind. — Colum McCann

One look at each other and it was immediately understood that they both needed a clean slate,,, The obliteration of memory. — Colum McCann

It was necessary to love silence, but before you could love silence you had to have noise. — Colum McCann

Pain's nothing. Pain's what you give, not what you get. — Colum McCann

Their perfect English accents. As if serving all their vowels on a fine set of tongs. — Colum McCann

Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else. — Colum McCann

Literature can remind us that not all life is already written down: there are still so many stories to be told. — Colum McCann