#trait

I like to comprehend more or less everything around me - apart from the creation of my music. It's an obsessive character trait that's getting worse. I don't switch the light on and off 15 times before I leave the room yet, but something's going wrong. ↗

— Robert Plant

#around #before #character #comprehend #creation

I was diagnosed a number of years ago with obsessive-compulsive disorder - which everyone has, to some degree - and I have this really annoying trait where in conversation, I always steer it back to something that happened to me. ↗

— Paula Poundstone

#always #annoying #back #conversation #degree

Is it possible that the portrait of the divine Son of God is an exaggeration, at best, or a complete fabrication, at worst, of the original Jesus? ↗

— John Clayton

#complete #divine #exaggeration #fabrication #god

You know, if one paints someone's portrait, one should not know him if possible. ↗

— Otto Dix

#know #paints #portrait #possible #should

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class. ↗

— Jack London

#god #his #mother #traitor

For the myth is the foundation of life; it is the timeless schema, the pious formula into which life flows when it reproduces its traits out of the unconscious. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#formula #foundation #into #life #myth

People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography. ↗

— Robert Mapplethorpe

#money #paint #people #photography #portraits

Havin' fun while freedom fightin' must be one of those lunatic Texas traits we get from the water - which is known to have lithium in it - because it goes all the way back to Sam Houston, surely the most lovable, the most human, and the funniest of all the great men this country has ever produced. ↗

— Molly Ivins

#because #country #ever #freedom #fun

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it. ↗

— Robinson Jeffers

#mind #slain #solitude #taken #traitor

The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#favor #forms #his #imagination #moment