Myhren Gallery Quotes & Sayings

From Laurie Colwin: Lovely writing! About grief she writes: I realized that grief is metabolic: it crawls through you like a disease and takes your energy away. Then it gathers and hits like a sudden migraine, like being hit by a car, like having a large, flat rock hurled at your chest. — Laurie Colwin

Most of the nicer guys have girlfriends, and we know this because they make it clear the moment we're introduced, as if to say, "Don't think about it." Those particular guys have absolutely no idea what to do with girls who aren't girlfriends, so at the moment they're at a bit of a dead loss in the friendship department. — Melina Marchetta

The best thing about dreams is that fleeting moment, when you are between asleep and awake, when you don't know the difference between reality and fantasy, when for just that one moment you feel with your entire soul that the dream is reality, and it really happened. — Oprah Winfrey

There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity. — Aristotle.

A man that's fond precociously of stirring , :;:; Must be a spoon. — Thomas Hood

Perfect bliss, from just the thought of you next to me. — Delano Johnson

Too many people look at it as though it (the hijab) has bizarre powers sewn into its microfibers. Powers that transform Muslim girls into UCOs (Unidentified Covered Objects), which turn Muslim girls from an 'us' to a 'them. — Randa Abdel-Fattah

It has always bothered me that many people, doctors included, tend to view anything that deviates from the typical as being abnormal or broken. — John Elder Robison

His heart pounding with fear and elation, and his head humming with the fierce certainty of a sure thing, he kissed her. She responded as though for her too a certainty had proved out, and in the midst of her hair and lips and long arms encircling him, Smoky added a treasure of great price to the small store of his wisdom. — John Crowley

I found myself thinking that perhaps there was something inexorable about the way events unfolded, as if my life
which had begun to seem something not my own but rather something into which I found myself blindly toppling
was indeed something living, that existed without my knowledge but that pulled me along in its strong, insistent undertow. — Hanya Yanagihara