Colm Toibin Quotes

All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.

Colm Toibin

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• You can be an Olympic champion in 9.5 secs, but to be the greatest, there's more to it. It takes a bit of forethought and a lot of mental application.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • You
  • Champion
  • Greatest

• I was always interested in the kind of history they didn't teach you in school.

  

  Sally Watson
  • School
  • History
  • Teach

• You can't win if you don't play as a unit.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • You
  • Play
  • Win

• Looking up and out, how can we not respect this ever-vigilant cognizance that distinguishes us: the capability to envision, to dream, and to invent? the ability to ponder ourselves? and be aware of our existence on the outer arm of a spiral galaxy in an immeasurable ocean of stars? Cognizance is our crest.

  

  Vanna Bonta
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Knowledge

• As with lemon juice, the more sorrel you use, the more it has to be balanced with something sweet, starchy or creamy - it's a yin-yang approach to cooking that I find rather calming.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweet
  • Find
  • Cooking

• To me, a critic is some loser who has no idea... someone with an opinion. We all have opinions. No offense, but what makes them dictate what is cool and what is not.

  

  Vanilla Ice
  • Me
  • Cool
  • Opinion

• I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Child
  • Tree
  • Physical

• You know, I've had an incredible career and I'm blessed.

  

  Malcolm McDowell
  • Career
  • Know
  • Blessed

• There was one man in the Labour government, Robin Cook, whom I had a very high regard for. He had the courage to speak out and to resign over Iraq. He was an admirable man. But resignation over a matter of principle is not a very fashionable thing in our society.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • High
  • Man
  • Society

• A plan is always successful if the plan is good.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Good
  • Successful
  • Plan

• The Arab states don't seem to do a good job of providing for their own people, so I am not sure why they would suddenly develop an ability to help the Palestinians.

  

  Walter Russell Mead
  • People
  • Good
  • Why

• The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Church
  • Emperor
  • Above

• I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Together
  • Myself
  • Church

• Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.

  

  Karl A. Menninger
  • People
  • Love
  • Give

• I don't trust Santa Barbara as far as I can spit. I am afraid that if I went back there, it's possible that I could be run through their system, their judicial system, and wind up in some county jail where I could be killed and I'm not gonna take that chance.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • Up
  • Trust
  • Chance

• As a 17-year-old, I remember positively dreading dance sequences. I would come to shoots, quaking with nervousness at the idea of making other artistes do retakes due to my mistakes.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Remember
  • Dance
  • Mistakes

• I save everything. I have these carefully organized file boxes. Somewhere in there is a section of the 'New York Times' where I wrote 'The Border Guard' in the margin.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • New
  • Everything
  • New York

• I used to get a shiver if I thought about holding balloons, because I was scared of floating away.

  

  Fiona Apple
  • Thought
  • Scared
  • Floating

• I think there's no question that vaccines have been absolutely critical in ridding us of the scourge of many diseases - smallpox, polio, etc. So vaccines are an invaluable medication. Like any medication, they also should be - what shall we say? - approved by a regulatory board that people can trust.

  

  Jill Stein
  • People
  • Question
  • Trust

• When I first seriously decided to become a cartoonist would have been '99/2000, right before 9/11. I've been writing and illustrating stories in the world post-9/11 since then, watching the world change around me.

  

  Jeff Lemire
  • World
  • Writing

• The world appears rectilinear, but is in fact curvilinear - a literal truth in physics, and a metaphorical one in metaphysics.

  

  Iain McGilchrist
  • World
  • Truth
  • Physics

• Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing seems to me to be one of the most basic principles that you can adopt to contribute to individual and world peace.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • Mind
  • Peace

• I create my own backstory regardless of if I'm told something about the background or not. There's always more that you can develop in your head that makes a character more layered, more honest.

  

  Regina King
  • Character
  • Honest
  • Create

• All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.

  

  Colm Toibin
  • Writing
  • Manipulation