#ife

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

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

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life. ↗

— Ty Cobb

#life #my life #one-hundred #percent

Children and lunatics cut the Gordian knot which the poet spends his life patiently trying to untie. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#children #cut #his #knot #life

On the one hand, the idea of marriage and the sort of traditional family life repulses me. But on the other hand, I long for it, you know what I mean? I'm constantly in conflict with things. And it is because of my past and my upbringing and the journey that I've been on. ↗

— Madonna Ciccone

#been #conflict #constantly #family #family life

My most brilliant achievement was my ability to be able to persuade my wife to marry me. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#ability #able #achievement #brilliant #marry

We make a living by what we get, but we make a life by what we give. ↗

— Winston Churchill

#get #give #life #living #make