#ions

To the eyes of a miser a guinea is more beautiful than the sun, and a bag worn with the use of money has more beautiful proportions than a vine filled with grapes. ↗

— William Blake

#beautiful #eyes #filled #grapes #guinea

All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time. ↗

— Otto Dix

#chaos #dreams #effort #exorcism #i

We have a strange and wonderful relationship - he's strange and I'm wonderful. ↗

— Mike Ditka

#relationship #strange #wonderful

My father thought sport was something fun - he didn't know it was a way to make money. Then I won a Mercedes at the world championships and I gave it to him. From the moment it arrived my father said: 'Good, you can support not just yourself but me too'. ↗

— Haile Gebrselassie

#championships #father #fun #gave #good

I want to win a championship and to win the Indy 500 makes me want it so much more. ↗

— Scott Dixon

#i #indy #indy 500 #makes #me

I'm trying not to pay too much attention to the rankings because calculations can distract you. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#because #calculations #distract #i #much

It's interesting that I had such a close relationship with my grandfather. Because your parents always judge you: they say, 'You shouldn't do this, you shouldn't do that.' But with your grandparents you have a feeling that you can say anything or you can do anything, and they will support you. That's why you have this kind of connection. ↗

— Novak Djokovic

#anything #because #close #close relationship #connection

I don't think we can go into important local elections next year... with Tony Blair as leader and expect to keep many of the councillors we've got now. ↗

— Frank Dobson

#elections #expect #go #got #i

I began to ask two questions while I was reading a book that excited me: not only what was going to happen next, but how is this done? How is it that these words on the page make me feel the way I'm feeling? This is the line of inquiry that I think happens in a child's mind, without him even knowing he has aspirations as a writer. ↗

— E. L. Doctorow

#aspirations #began #book #child #done

By and large my relations with the US were good. ↗

— Hans Blix

#large #relations #us #were