Famous Quotes & Sayings

Louise Rennison

Non...I am DANCING IN MY NUDDY-PANTS!!!' And we both laughed like loons on loon tablets. I danced for ages round the house in my nuddy-pants. Also, I did this brilliant thing-I danced in the front window just for a second whilst Mr. Across the Road was drawing his curtains. He will never be sure if he saw a mirage or not. That is the kind of person I am. Not really the kind of person who goes and raises elks in Whakatane.

Loren Eiseley

Many of us who walk to and fro upon our usual tasks are prisoners drawing mental maps of escape.

Mahalia Jackson

Money just draws flies.

Friedensreich Hundertwasser

The straight line is ungodly.

Fred Wilson

Blog-based businesses have lower cost structures and are more 'authentic,' and as a result are drawing larger shares of ad budgets.

Maddie Ziegler

I'm very artistic - I feel like ever since I was born I've been drawing. I actually have a picture in my room that I painted, and people are always like "Where did you buy that?" It's cool that people are impressed by it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The best way to understand a painting is by drawing it.

The launch of the silver ETF is expected to draw large investment money into the silver markets, which would most indisputably take silver prices much higher.

The location within the premier Camelback submarket was a huge draw to this asset.

James Thurber

A drawing is always dragged down to the level of its caption.

Ellsworth Kelly

Shading is more like copying. And certainly I do copy, but I'm making drawings, and I'm not trying to make them with the shading.

Ellsworth Kelly

My drawings have to be quick. If they don't happen in 20 minutes or a half hour, then they're no good.

Ellsworth Kelly

All my work begins with drawings.

Ellsworth Kelly

I don't labor over my drawings. I want to get freedom in the line.

All of these factors are drawing in fund buying.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

And each man stands with his face in the light of his own drawn sword. Ready to do what a hero can.

Rudyard Kipling

And, each in his separate star, / Shall draw the Thing as he sees it for the God of things as they are!

The market has consolidated for the last day and a half. If the gasoline draws are larger than expected, we'll be off to the races again.

Henri Matisse

I shan't get free of my emotion by copying the tree faithfully, or by drawing its leaves one by one in the common language, but only after identifying myself with it.

Henri Matisse

To draw is to make an idea precise. Drawing is the precision of thought.

Henri Matisse

Drawing is putting a line around an idea.

Hilary Duff

I'm drawing the gossip surrounding the celebrity, or the image the celebrity tries to push on us.

Jim Leach

Drawing on President Bush's reform plan, which would allow citizens to transfer part of their Social Security contributions into personal accounts, an alteration of the current system is needed to make necessary change.

Matt Bomer

While I feel that I have a great reservoir to draw from as an actor for lots of different roles, it is difficult because it can be an industry where it's people's jobs to thin-slice you really quickly and try to fit you into a niche in the market.

Scott Skiles

We have made it a point of emphasis all year. Our guys have to use better judgment about when to shoot (the ball) and when to drive and draw contact. There were some games when we were in the penalty (situation) for four or five minutes and still had not shot a free throw.

When we look back at the results, we need to show improvement on our finishes, starts, relays and that kind of thing. We're going back to the drawing board.

The president knows where to draw the line. He has said we need to tighten the laws and measures on suspected terrorists while protecting our citizens. But he recognizes that we do not want to go down the route of the past.

First-graders send in drawings of the gecko. Great-grandmothers do needlepoint pillows of the gecko. Hardly a day goes by when someone doesn't suggest an idea about what the gecko should do next.

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.

Ridley Scott

In science fiction, we're always searching for new frontiers. We're drawn to the unknown.

Orison Swett Marden

Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not follow them up with a vigorous effort to make them real, just as the architect's plans will end in his drawings if they are not followed up and made real by the builder.

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.

Roz Chast

My works were not - and they still aren't - single panel gags with a punch line underneath them. I like a lot of those cartoons; I just don't draw them.