#co

Two days after moving we recommended ourselves to God, Our Lord, and fled, hoping that, although it was late in the season and the fruits of the tunas were giving out, by remaining in the field we might still get over a good portion of the land. ↗

— Alvar N. C. de Vaca

#although #days #field #fled #fruits

Wars have ever been but another aristocratic mode of plundering and oppressing commerce. ↗

— Richard Cobden

#aristocratic #been #commerce #ever #mode

Painting is the most magical of mediums. The transcendence is truly amazing to me every time I go to a museum and I see how somebody figured another way to rub colored dirt on a flat surface and make space where there is no space or make you think of a life experience. ↗

— Chuck Close

#another #another way #colored #dirt #every

I think the diva is kind of a cliche. My definition of a diva is somebody whose talent does not match what they're trying to play, so all this temperament comes out. ↗

— Glenn Close

#comes #definition #diva #does #i

Summers was simply a master explainer, able to deftly boil down the complexities of economic and financial, and to put them in terms the non-expert could understand. He was brilliant at cultivating a sense of control, even as events spun far beyond what could be managed with any certainty. He could will into being the confidence that eluded others, those less self-assured and, maybe sensibly, on humbler terms with the world. ↗

— Ron Suskind

#explanation #humility #uncertainty #education

Forgiveness is a funny thing. It warms the heart and cools the sting. ↗

— William Arthur Ward

#cools #funny #funny thing #heart #sting

I want no epitaphs of profound history and all that type of thing. I contributed. I would hope they would say that, and I would hope somebody liked me. ↗

— Brian Clough

#history #hope #i #liked #me

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#had #i #just #little #old

I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#comics #i #i love #individual #love

I think I've had the fantasy of a ray-gun that could erase the world from the time I was a very little kid. ↗

— Daniel Clowes

#erase #fantasy #had #i #i think