Famous Quotes & Sayings

Damien Chazelle

If you're an artist, you want to draw from real life; you want to draw from experiences, emotion, and it's something that a lot of musicians juggle with. I've always found it so fascinating.

James Fox

In nighttime games, there's a much longer drinking period leading up to the game. The clientele going to day games is different than at night. Day games tend to draw more families.

I had been working for Acme for six years. After a while, you realize you're just drawing a paycheck, and I felt like, 'If you're going to do something, you might as well really do it.' So, I opened my own store.

Johnny Depp

I really approached the film as if it was a white big piece of paper and I was just going to draw a picture on it. And whether that picture was good or bad, whatever people thought of it, what they could never take away was that it was my picture.

I put it out on the Web. I didn't think it would draw the level of response it did. I started getting e-mails from everywhere -- Bosnia, Okinawa, everywhere you could imagine.

Damon Galgut

Being gay myself, I'm naturally drawn to the interactions between men rather than men and women.

Syed Noor

Before doing anything important, he would write 'yes' or 'no' on two pieces of paper. Then sitting near the embalmed body, he would draw lots and decide.

Tommy Bowden

His (evaluation) will be how he is going to manage the team. You couldn't see that today because it is hard to draw any conclusions from that.

Chen is pushing the envelope and forcing the United States to draw a line to show him where the limit is.

He's a main draw player there. He was in the main draw there last year and he'll be in the main draw there next year.

Gasoline inventories are of greater concern, but the draw was smaller than in previous weeks, and we don't have that much time left in the driving season.

Eric Clapton

They looked great, you know the drawings of the guys playing looked great and bits of string around their necks. So it didn't seem to be that difficult a thing to do, or that inaccessible.

Denzel Washington

I really want my father's life to be portrayed honestly. I don't want people getting drawn into the theatre because they want to see the last scene where he's shot and killed.

Elliott Sadler

I'll look at film of today's races tonight as a fan and a student. What is NASCAR letting them get away with? What are they not letting them get away with? What's going on, so on Sunday I'll know where to draw the line at.

I know how hard he works. We wanted to win in the semis because then you get a good draw in the first round (in Johnstown). If you get a win under your belt, then you never know what can happen.

I just like vampires, I'm sure there was a metaphorical level going on, but that's not what was going on with me. I just wanted to draw some vampires.

Frankie Dettori

I just had to find my spot. When I got him outside, I knew he would do it. He has a lot of heart. From the No. 1 draw to give away two lengths to everybody ... what a great horse.

I have the second-nut flush draw and top pair, ... At that point I move all in for the remaining $50,000 or so. He called.

John Foxe

Hopefully, we won't draw too much from it, because that was a 24-14 loss, ... Hopefully, it's something that we've learned from. Last year was our first opportunity in quite some time. Hopefully, we'll learn from that and understand what's at stake there. The whole world is watching. There's no question all of your peers are watching. It's something that guys should gear up for, and I think we'll learn from that experience last year.

He spoke in favor of Oslo. Who speaks in favor of Oslo anymore? ... If he goes on with these types of economic policy and foreign policy, I don't think he will draw the middle of Israeli society.

Robert Reed

I don't know if I am simply anything, but I have never felt drawn up into any sub-field or splinter genre. Not a good strategy for a career, I think.

I didn't think we were tough enough in any spot. We weren't physical enough to get it to the rim and draw fouls. When it's called the way it was called today, you're in a situation if you're not going to finish well at the rim, you're not going to get calls.

Jack Kirby

I admired anybody who could make a buck with his drawing.

Irving Stone

Drawing is the poet's written line, set down to see if there be a story worth telling, a truth worth revealing.

Graeme Le Saux

Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.

Gwen John

I am going to do some drawings or paintings...in the mirror of my wardrobe..with myself as a figure doing something.

David Lambert

The intent is to make it more of a setting for the people who live nearby to enjoy rather than being a huge park that would draw in people from all over the city.

The last thing I'd do is put purple streaks in my hair ... it's like drawing a target on yourself.

The IOC has learned lessons from the past. We have made inquiries and taken sanctions. What is past is past. The IOC has drawn a line under that.

Danny Huston

I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

Danny Elfman

Doing Tim's film is always going to be the most pleasure. Let me just put it that way. So, without drawing favorites one way or the other, getting back with him and doing Mars Attacks! was certainly a special treat.

Daniel Day-Lewis

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.