Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robin Cook

Chicken masala is now Britain's true national dish, not only because it is the most popular, but because it is a perfect illustration of the way Britain absorbs and adapts external influences.

Noam Chomsky

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom - along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

Julie Mehretu

I don't ever work in a way where something is an illustration of an event, but when something is occurring at the same time I see it as very informed by that.

Ellen Willis

On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.

John Morrison

This decision is an illustration that freedom of speech still protects average people sitting on a street corner singing.

Edward Bellamy

Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a right line was a chimera of the imagination, with no analogue in nature. The parabola of a comet was perhaps a yet better illustration of the career of humanity. Tending upward and sunward from the aphelion of barbarism, the race attained the perihelion of civilization only to plunge downward once more to its nether goal in the regions of chaos.

Henry James

The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of the newspaper and the picture magazine which keeps screaming, "Look at me." Illustrations, loud simplifications... bill poster advertising ? only these stand a chance.

John Kricfalusi

The generic Canadian style of illustration is different from the generic American style.

Barbara Kruger

All violence is the illustration of a pathetic stereotype,

Margaret Keane

I was always drawing eyes, even as a child. Eyes fascinated me.

James Jones

We've got to go back to the drawing board. We should of had these boys. We've got to see what we did wrong, and make up for it, and just get better.

Dom Capers

I think what they're doing is good for the game. They're drawing a lot of attention. They haven't really been challenged.

Andy Warhol

I think that throughout the show that there are many things that could be picked up on in terms of fashion and in terms of style. Whether it be the drawings from the 1950s or the dresses from

Walter J. Williams

I don't know why they were so intent on drawing autobiographical work from students who were so young they really didn't have an autobiography.

Traian Basescu

Even the National Bank of Romania doesn't have the huge resources needed to intervene in the market and keep the leu at an acceptable level, because they're drawing close to a floor below which the bank's reserves can't drop. The central bank has to wait for a moment of calm to efficiently conduct its interventions.

Virginia Woolf

She felt drawing further from her and further from her an Archduke, (she did not mind that) a fortune, (she did not mind that) the safety and circumstance of married life, (she did not mind that) but life she heard going from her, and a lover.

Rob Bell

For many people, God is primitive, behind, trying to drag everything back to some prehistoric era as opposed to spirit, force, love, drawing us into a better future, which to me is - that story has done something in me and I've seen it do things in other people.

Ulysses S. Grant

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.