Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amity Shlaes

Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with. The lucky biographers find themselves drawn into a sort of friendship with their subject.

Anjelica Huston

I know certainly, when one job draws to a close, that I feel I'm simply never going to work again. No one will ever want me for anything ever again. I think that's a vulnerable moment in every actor's life, and it happens every time you finish a film.

The reader's challenge is to replicate the experiment by reading the poem and to draw their own conclusions.

The reactions from people when they see our stuff is always positive. Wherever we go, people seem to be drawn to us. It feels so good. It makes me feel like maybe I've made the right choice,

There is just something about these kids that just draws you in, ... There is no better feeling than when the light goes on with these kids.

There is, in my view, a nice line to draw between what could be described as 'ill-disciplined celebratory fire' and mischievous fire, which is where I suspect we are at the moment.

I had a great childhood. Even though I never had my own room - I shared the porch with my grandfather and kept my belongings in one drawer of a dresser that was jammed next to the piano - I never went hungry and was always supported by my family.

It's important to begin a biography or any book or story with something to draw the reader in.

Kenneth Branagh

I think that music is crucially important in Shakespeare - and, clearly, was an important part of the Elizabethan theatre. And, it's always been something that was a profound element of the experience of Shakespeare that I have been drawn to - and interpreters have, as well.

The question is, is this a short-lived phenomenon? If you get another big draw in gasoline tomorrow, this sell-off could be a one-day miracle.

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 do expect a big showing for the week because of the town (they are) the hometown boys, if you will. It's their second movie, and Sherwood naturally has a big draw and has a good network to spread the news about the movie.

We didn't have a good draw the first year. We didn't have a good draw last year either.

Adrian McKinty

Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists.

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.

We had tough draws in the first round, and we knew it. We probably didn't wrestle quite as well as we could have. It's the state tournament, and there are a lot of tough wrestlers; everybody's good down here. You have to be ready to go.

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.

I don't know where I got the idea for 'The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book'; I just told my brain to think of a book, and it did.

We called the play out, ... Our guys in the huddle said, 'Watch the draw,' and a draw it was. We had a guy in space looking to make the play and didn't.

Dave McKean

Sometimes the things I learn making paintings or drawings - composition, colour, expressionism, texture - can directly influence the making of a film. Sometimes it's great that they are different, and simply taking a break from one medium to spend time with another, recharges the batteries and I feel refreshed.

Isaac Newton

The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.

Robert H. Schuller

There is a quiet place in Hawaii where, for over thirty years, I've gone to draw inspiration and write many of my books.

Helen Fisher

I have always been interested in how you can walk into a room and there will be 40 people there and you are immediately drawn to one.

Claude Monet

I can only draw what I see.

Antony Gormley

It doesn't matter if you can't speak the same language. If you have pictures, or better still, if you can draw things, then you can communicate anything to anyone.

Aaron Koblin

I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.