#close

True freedom only exists in art.The problem is you have to be incredibly good.No,I am putting it wrong:You don't so much have to be outstanding,what you really need are connections,if you don't want to be dependent on all kinds of government foundations who will impose their ideas and restrictions on you in turn.It can be touch and go in the beginning:It takes guts to let go of everything.But you make it,you're free. ↗

— Esther Verhoef

#close-up #esther-verhoef #freedom #life #art

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. ↗

— Babe Ruth

#closer #every #home #home run #me

Evolution seems to close the heart to some of the plainest spiritual truths while it opens the mind to the wildest guesses advanced in the name of science. ↗

— William Jennings Bryan

#close #evolution #guesses #heart #mind

The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them. ↗

— Rachel Maddow

#commentary #gay #honesty #lesbian #lgbt

The painter constructs, the photographer discloses. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#discloses #painter #photographer

It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory, which only very limited minds can declare to be a certainty or a truth. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#close-mindedness #hypothesis #open-mindedness #maturity

It took us three years to even come close to catching up with the demand a little bit. ↗

— Ruth Handler

#catching #close #come #demand #even

I admit it: I'm a freak who sits obsessively in front of my computer typing my name into Yahoo Search over and over again. I'm a closet Amberholic. Please help me! ↗

— Amber Benson

#again #closet #computer #freak #front

He was so close to her then that they owned every molecule of air in the tiny room and the air grew heavy with their desire and worked to move them together. ↗

— Ann Patchett

#desire #love #love

Because forgiveness is like this: a room can be dank because you have closed the windows, you've closed the curtains. But the sun is shining outside, and the air is fresh outside. In order to get that fresh air, you have to get up and open the window and draw the curtains apart. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

#apart #because #closed #curtains #draw