Quote by Colum McCann Download Open image ““Someone was high or brilliant or both.”” — Colum McCann ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.0 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“You can either have high specific intelligence or high general intelligence, but not both.” — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“We are all in natural high, It was better than dope or booze or anything.” — Beatrice Sparks Copy Share Image
“Anyone who has to take a test to see how smart they are can't be that bright.” — R.W. Haight Copy Share Image
“...one should not only be smart in his head, but one should also be smart in how he relates to other people.” — Daniel Whyte III Copy Share Image
“A genius could be anybody that he wants, but ingenious is always one person at that time.” — Matthew McConaughey Copy Share Image
“If you are great it doesn't mean that you are the best or one of them.” — Pēteris Bitāns Copy Share Image
“There are more idiots in the world than bright ones, but it’s the odd good one that makes a big difference.” — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
“It has been my experience that those meant for greatness are normally the least aware of their own genius.” — Lizzy Ford Copy Share Image
“The unrecognized genius-that's one old story. Have you ever thought of a much worse one-the genius recognized too well?” — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Give life long enough and it will solve all your problems, including the one of being alive. — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“There is something that happens to the mind in moments of terror. Perhaps we figure it's the last we'll ever have and we record… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“The short sharp shock of three thousand mother two hundred mothers. The ones who picked through the supermarket debris for pieces of their dead… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I'm not so sure that I can teach people how to, you know, write dialogue or create plot or anything like that. But if… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“How long ago it was and how strange, but all dead friends come to life again sometimes.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“She would want, instead, to recall him in the air, between layers of cloud. To give him back that ancient dignity.” — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
Novels are more difficult simply because they are longer and require more juggling, but short stories are closer to perfection, if you can get… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
I think one of the biggest political failures, and the biggest social failures, over the past few years has been the failure of empathy;… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“Bits of it floating in the air, he said. "It's like dust. You walk about and don't see it, don't notice it, but it's… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
“He has read whole volumes on the philosophy of nonviolence. How peace had to be understood in all its moral dimensions. The proper coexistence… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
