Vanickova Quotes & Sayings

A noose around the neck was still a noose even if it was encrusted with diamonds. — Salla Simukka

Life itself has lost its plane reality: it is projected, not along the old fixed points, but along the dynamic coordinates of Einstein, of revolution. In this new projection, the best-known formulas and objects become displaced, fantastic, familiar-unfamiliar. This is why it is so logical for literature today to be drawn to the fantastic plot, or to the amalgam of reality and fantasy. ("The New Russian Prose") — Yevgeny Zamyatin

The words I can't say are the holes I punch in the walls of my psyche ... — John Geddes

Bodies need poison. Withdrawals without it. Toxin-free airs a killer. — Hubert Selby Jr.

If you can't win your race, make sure the guy ahead of you breaks the record. — Steve Prefontaine

A tight structural form opens possibilities. Take a pattern, an established model or sub-genre, and write to it. In writing, limitation gives freedom — W.G. Sebald

A certified fucking wake up call. — Gail McHugh

Like a bird she seems to wear gay plumage unconsciously, as if it grew upon her. — Henry Ward Beecher

We are born to love as we are born to die, and between the heartbeats of those two great mysteries lies all the tangled undergrowth of our tiny lives. There is nowhere to go but through. And so we walk on, lost, and lost again, in the mapless wilderness of love. — Tim Farrington

I just want something that is real and that moves people. And just want to make something real. — Lizz Wright

Invention consists in avoiding the constructing of useless contraptions and in constructing the useful combinations which are in infinite minority. — Henri Poincare

Experiments that crash atoms together could start a chain reaction that erodes everything on Earth. — Martin Rees

It is only when the mind and imagination are enriched from exposure to the world of beauty, that artistic creativity and inspiration truly becomes manifest. — Mark Woollacott

To be able to see the world through other people's values and truly empathize with them means that you cannot see all people who have different moral values than yours as enemies to be demonized. There — George Lakoff