#life

I don't believe in happy endings, but I do believe in happy travels, because ultimately, you die at a very young age, or you live long enough to watch your friends die. It's a mean thing, life. ↗

— George Clooney

#because #believe #die #endings #enough

An acting career usually has about a shelf life of ten years before people get sick of seeing you. It's a good thing to have a job to fall back on and I really do enjoy directing. ↗

— George Clooney

#about #acting #back #before #career

You have only a short period of time in your life to make your mark, and I'm there now. ↗

— George Clooney

#life #make #mark #now #only

We like to believe that, in our lifetime, the human condition is improving. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#condition #human #human condition #improving #lifetime

I'm plagued with indecision in my life. I can't figure out what to order in a restaurant. ↗

— Chuck Close

#i #indecision #life #my life #order

What difference does it make whether you're looking at a photograph or looking at a still life in front of you? You still have to look. ↗

— Chuck Close

#does #front #life #look #looking

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

Barney's Dad was really bad so Barney hatched a plan when his dad said "Eat your peas." Barney shouted no and ran Barney tricked his mean old dad and locked him in the cellar Barney's Mom never found out where he'd gone, Cause Barney didn't tell her. There his dad spent his life eating mice and gruel With every bite for fifty years he was sorry he'd been cruel ↗

— Bill Watterson

#calvin-and-hobbes #life

I've been sacrificing my life for my work for 30 years, and now I want it the other way around. I want to find work that fits into my life and that would be based here. ↗

— Glenn Close

#based #been #find #fits #here

I speak of a clinical depression that is the background of your entire life, a background of anguish and anxiety, a sense that nothing goes well, that pleasure is unavailable and all your strategies collapse. ↗

— Leonard Cohen

#anxiety #background #clinical #collapse #depression