#time

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

— Nick Clooney

#condition #human #human condition #improving #lifetime

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

You write a song about how you think at the time, and then gradually you drift away from that, and when it's far enough in the past, that's when you think, 'Now I have to write something new.' ↗

— Jarvis Cocker

#away #drift #enough #far #gradually

Art is not a pastime but a priesthood. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#pastime #priesthood

I was arrested three times and tortured once. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#i #once #three #times #tortured

As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#background #became #bigger #books #eventually

But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons. ↗

— Jonathan Coe

#read #reasons #time #try #wrong

We'd like to have immediate answers to all of our questions. I think medicine in particular. I found it frustrating as a physician sometimes to not be able to tell someone exactly why something was happening to them. There are still so many mysteries in medicine. ↗

— Laurel Clark

#answers #exactly #found #frustrating #happening

Veterans have had a long record of leaning towards the Republican Party. I think that's changing. I think that President Obama has the strongest record with veterans among any president in my lifetime. ↗

— Wesley Clark

#any #changing #had #i #i think

I've got more ideas for books than I'll ever be able to use in my lifetime. I'm very fortunate like that. ↗

— Brad Thor

#books #ever #fortunate #got #i