Vicknair Art Quotes & Sayings

'The Things They Carried' is labeled right inside the book as a work of fiction, but I did set out when I wrote the book to make it feel real ... I use my own name, and I dedicated the book to characters in the book to give it the form of a war memoir. — Tim O'Brien

In many parts of the world, more people have access to a mobile device than to a toilet or running water. — Nancy Gibbs

Devotion, like fire, goeth upward. — Zoroaster

Grief is a most peculiar thing; we're so helpless in the face of it. It's like a window that will simply open of its own accord. The room grows cold, and we can do nothing but shiver. But it opens a little less each time, and a little less; and one day we wonder what has become of it. — Arthur Golden

If love means anything at all it means extending your hand to the unlovable. — Quentin Crisp

Faith is not the result of striving. It is the result of surrender. — Bill Johnson

If you go back to, say, the Brothers Grimm or Roald Dahl, you see so much darkness in children's material. — Evangeline Lilly

The purpose of philosophy isn't complex theorizing, it is simple and clear thinking in relation to life's big questions. — Steven Colborne

Two hundred miles from the surface of the earth there is no gravity. The laws of motion are suspended. You could turn somersaults slowly slowly, weight into weightlessness, nowhere to fall. As you lay on your back paddling in space you might notice your feet had fled your head. You are stretching slowly slowly, getting longer, your joints are slipping away from their usual places. There is no connection between your shoulder and your arm. You will break up bone by bone, fractured from who you are, drifting away now, the centre cannot hold. — Jeanette Winterson

Whereas, the Senate of the United States, devoutly recognizing the Supreme Authority and just Government of Almighty God, in all the affairs of men and of nations, has, by a resolution, requested the President to designate and set apart a day for National prayer and humiliation ... — Abraham Lincoln

Teddy shuddered. The idea of the sublime little bird being plucked from the sky, of its exquisite song being interrupted in full flight, was horrible to him. — Kate Atkinson