Let The Great World Spin Quotes

#1. Most of 'Let the Great World Spin' is centered on the day in 1974 when Philippe Petit walked on a tightrope between the two towers of the World Trade Center, creating an astonishing spectacle that intersects with the lives of many of the novel's multiple protagonists.

Susan Barker

#2. The tightrope walk was an act of creation that seemed to stand in direct defiance to the act of destruction twenty-seven years later.
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Colum McCann

#3. '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

#4. Let the great world spin for ever down the ringing grooves of change.

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#5. Well, I'd say fuck too, if I were me. I'd say it backward and forward and around the block, fuck this and fuck that and fuck it all at once, twice, three times.

Colum McCann

#6. With her words, the world could spin again. It took great restraint to not unfurl my wings and fly Abby around the mountain, pronouncing to anyone with ears that she loved me. Abigail Miller loved me.

Ashlan Thomas

#7. When I made my first film, I didn't think of it as directing, so it wasn't like I set out to become a director.

Kathryn Bigelow

#8. I'm the first to admit that I don't write right. Now, relax and enjoy the show! The sideshow, that is.

Lori R. Lopez

#9. I was not expecting my sister to ask me to be her best man. I was so honored.

Brad Goreski

#10. Whatever you fight, you strengthen, and what you resist, persists.

Eckhart Tolle

#11. in a 2013 Gallup survey, 70 percent of Americans said they hated their jobs or felt disengaged.

Jon Acuff

#12. We follow our scripts like actors in a very large, very long production. And even with no audience, none of us gives a hint that it isn't real.

Ann Brashares

#13. Decolonization actually boosted slavery. As foreign powers withdrew from the colonies, people were enslaved by their own countrymen. And we see it in Africa, we see it in Asia.

Loretta Napoleoni

#14. Literature can stop my heart and execute me for a moment, allow me to become someone else.

Colum McCann

#15. The best way to be superhuman is to do things that you love with other people who love them, too. The only way to do that is to admit you're doing it because you love it and if you do more than everyone, you're still only doing that because that's what you choose.

Cory Doctorow

#16. Great is the power, great is the authority of a senate that is unanimous in its opinions.

Marcus Tullius Cicero