Bondarev Nobel Quotes

#1. Art to me was a state: it didn't need to be an accomplishment.

Margaret Caroline Anderson

#2. Time itself is a thing, so it seems to me, that stands solidly like a fence of iron palings with its endless row of years; and we flow past like Gyoll, on our way to a sea from which we shall return only as rain.

Gene Wolfe

#3. I will always be as difficult as necessary to achieve the best,

Maria Callas

#4. Oddly-shaped is a term I've been using because it doesn't sound better or worse than anyone elses. All those other terms like "f**'ed up childhood" or "broken home," none of them sound good. Were our childhoods better or worse? I don't know. It's different.

Bucky Sinister

#5. Maybe 'cause you don't always have to win a pageant to wear a crown.

Julie Murphy

#6. I see little difference in the attitudes of those who consider themselves Christian and those who are openly secular and agnostic. Most Christian citizenship appears to be clearly right here - on this little bit of very unreal estate.

Richard Rohr