Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ian Mckellen

In the '50s and '60s, the life of a gay man was a secret. Homosexuality was illegal, so you didn't draw attention to yourself.

Gallagher

Parents are trying to be friends with their kids rather than draw the line and tell them what proper public behavior would be.

Zadie Smith

Like all readers, I want my limits to be drawn by my own sensibilities, not by my melanin count.

Walter Smith

I started out in Scotland, not as a footballer of any note, and I didn't play to draw the attention of people abroad.

Christo

We don't sell technical drawings except when they are incorporated into a drawing or a collage.

Clint Eastwood

'Unforgiven' is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, 'This is great, but I'd like to do this when I'm older.' So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out.

Bill Cosby

Karl Malden was a good friend of mine, and he said, 'You draw the people to you,' and I guess that's what I do.

Nancy Gibbs

The Reverend Jeremiah Wright would baptize Obama, perform his marriage to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, baptize their daughters, and draw him into the raucous, restless family of faith that Obama had never known before.

Natalie Imbruglia

I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.

Bill Blass

Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.

Bertrand Russell

The State is a collection of officials, different for difference purposes, drawing comfortable incomes so long as the status quo is preserved. The only alteration they are likely to desire in the status quo is an increase of bureaucracy and the power of bureaucrats.

Ridley Scott

The 3D world allows you to engage even more with a film because you're somehow drawn into the landscape or the universe of that scene. Even when it's two people talking at a table, you feel like you're a third party.

That was tough night. We didn't draw it up that way, that's for sure. We're trying to battle. We're trying to stay with them. But you play a good team like that, and they made some really good plays out there.

We know that they have had the drawings for P-2 centrifuge and they've publicized that.

Patrick O'Brian

I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

Sri Mulyani Indrawati

Financial inclusion helps lift people out of poverty and can help speed economic development. It can draw more women into the mainstream of economic activity, harnessing their contributions to society.

Mary Antin

If education, culture, the higher life were shining things to be worshiped from afar, he had still a means left whereby he could draw one step nearer to them.

We were going forward and took two steps back. We've got to regroup. We're going to watch the tape of the Madison game tomorrow and go back to the drawing board.

We have a lot of players on this team that can make shots, ... When you have your veterans that are not shooting (well), what you do as a post player (is) you try to draw the double-team and get them open shots.

Usually we draw all of the top competitive shooters from all over the Northwest.

Patricia Richardson

I live in such a sweet world in the world of 'Home Improvement' that I tend to be drawn to stuff that's really on the other end of the spectrum entirely.

Microsoft has conceded that the server will have some Linux competition, but they've drawn a line in the sand at the desktop.

Stephen Collins

You have to draw on different sides of yourself. So I think if people watch a lot of any actor's work, they can sort of get to know them.

You can draw your own conclusions from that.

I think men are drawn to Pilates because they have this vague notion it will help them with back issues. But they stick with it because it truly makes them feel better.

We got the model Pfeiffer player as far as toughness and unselfishness. And hard-nosed as he is on the court, he's just as good a guy off it. He's not loud, but people are drawn to him. He communicates with everyone from 5-year-olds to the president of the university.

Hannah Kent

Most writers are drawn to what is unknown, rather than what is clear in any tale.

Hannah Storm

I've been out of my comfort zone a lot, and it makes me more vulnerable, but I have to draw the line somewhere, and don't think I would go skydiving!

Gretchen Rubin

Most people enjoy 'potato-chip news' from time to time - to track a presidential election or the Oscars. However, some are particularly drawn to material that makes them feel shocked, frightened, insecure, or indignant, and that's what potato-chip news often provides.

The problem is much of the public feels since it is fruit-flavored tobacco and drawn through water, it is a safe product. That is just not the case.

We haven't forgotten that, ... It's something we draw from always.

Zoe Sugg

I'd always loved watching YouTube videos, and that's what inspired me to make them myself. Initially I was drawn to makeup tutorials - I learned everything I know about makeup from YouTube.

I think people are drawn to it because of the lifestyle.