#met

I don't see the world completely in black and white. Sometimes I do. ↗

— Benicio Del Toro

#black and white #completely #i #i do #see

My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate. ↗

— Willem de Kooning

#activity #become #course #desperate #desperation

Art was something I could do better. It gave me a sense of self. ↗

— Jeff Koons

#better #could #gave #i #me

I was trying to make art that my son could look on in the future and would realize I was thinking about him very much during these times... that he can look and see my dad's thinking about me, but to also embed in these things something that is bigger than all of us. ↗

— Jeff Koons

#also #art #bigger #could #dad

I do give books as gifts sometimes, when people would rather have one than a new Ferrari. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#ferrari #gifts #give #i #i do

A fanatic is a nut who has something to believe in. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#fanatic #nut #something #who

If something in your writing gives support to people in their lives, that's more than just entertainment-which is what we writers all struggle to do, to touch people. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#just #lives #more #people #something

If you have to pay the bills, and you write something you're not proud of, use a pen-name for that. ↗

— Dean Koontz

#pay #proud #something #use #write

They have been deprived nutritionally, or some illness has not been picked up, or they have not been screened for vision or hearing defects, or they have not had some kind of a chronic illness or error of metabolism picked up. ↗

— C. Everett Koop

#chronic #defects #deprived #error #had

To call something an 'enhanced interrogation technique' doesn't alter the fact that we thought it was torture when the Japanese used it on American prisoners, we thought it was torture when the North Koreans used it, we thought it was torture when the Soviets used it. You know, it's almost the moral equivalent of saying that rape is an enhanced seduction technique. ↗

— Ted Koppel

#alter #american #call #enhanced #equivalent