A Quote by Tim O'Brien

They carried the sky. The whole atmosphere, they carried it, the humidity, the monsoons, the stink of fungus and decay, all of it, they carried gravity.

Tim O'Brien

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Tim O'Brien
American - Novelist
Born: October 1, 1946

...all that is carried along by the stream's silvery cascade, rhythmically falling from the mountain, carried by its own current-- carried where?

Pope John Paul II

They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and specific gravity, they had tangible weight. They carried shameful memories. They carried the common secret of cowardice.... Men killed, and died, because they were embarrassed not to.

Tim O'Brien

I am not a character who gets carried away with good or bad performances and I won't get carried away by bigger or lesser critics. It's the same when you get praise. You can't get carried away with that.

Simon Mignolet

He lay listening to the water drip in the woods. Bedrock, this. The cold and the silence. The ashes of the late world carried on the bleak and temporal winds to and fro in the void. Carried forth and scattered and carried forth again. Everything uncoupled from its shoring. Unsupported in the ashen air. Sustained by a breath, trembling and brief. If only my heart were stone.

Cormac McCarthy

Whiskey is carried into committee rooms in demijohns and carried out in demagogues.

Mark Twain

You carried my heart in your hands tonight," he said. "But I have felt as if you carried it long before that.

Holly Black

They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.

Tim O'Brien

Sachin Tendulkar has carried the burden of the nation for 21 years. It is time we carried him on our shoulders

Virat Kohli

I don't think I could've carried the weight that Murrow carried.

David Strathairn

I have carried bills concerning Sudan. I've carried bills concerning Congo. I've carried bills concerning North Korea and Iran and Iraq.

Sam Brownback

I suppose I've always carried what is regarded as a bit of unnecessary baggage in Britain. I've always carried the charge that I am an intellectual in politics.

Chris Patten

wheresoever the earth may be placed, or whithersoever it may be carried by its animal faculty, heavy bodies will always be carried towards it.

Johannes Kepler

Five hundred souls. I carried them in my fingers, like suitcases. Or I'd throw them over my shoulder. It was only the the children I carried in my arms.

Markus Zusak

All arrangements that are carried out between heaven and earth are carried out through angels.

Mirza Ghulam Ahmad

But maybe you carried your demons with you everywhere, the way you carried your shadow.

Lauren Oliver

Time is like a river made up of the events which happen, and a violent stream; for as soon as a thing has been seen, it is carried away, and another comes in its place, and this will be carried away too.

Marcus Aurelius

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