Famous Quotes & Sayings

Dag Hammarskjold

The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the U.N. and what it means clearly. Everything will be all right -- you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction, and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

William Morris

What is this the sound and rumor? What is this that all men hear, Like the wind in hollow valleys when the storm is drawing near, Like the rolling of the ocean in the eventide of fear? 'Tis the people marching on

We've had people drawing names out of hats to see what the crews were going to be because everybody wanted to do it.

You go back to the drawing board, start all over again,

The trend will be a stronger yen through to the end of this month. Strong stocks are drawing flows of overseas money into Japanese assets.

Nicole Krauss

The misery of other people is only an abstraction something that can be sympathized with only by drawing from one's own experiences. But as it stands, true empathy remains impossible. And so long as it is, people will continue to suffer the pressure of their seemingly singular existence.

Nassau William Senior

But that the reasoning from these facts, the drawing from them correct conclusions, is a matter of great difficulty, may be inferred from the imperfect state in which the Science is now found after it has been so long and so intensely studied.

Rafael Moneo

Buildings are always better than drawings and models.

Siegfried Sassoon

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

Seth MacFarlane

I still do a lot of drawing on a daily basis.

Lucy Fry

I remember preparing for my audition on the plane to L.A. — I was drawing all these weird vampire pictures and I am sure the gorgeous ladynext to me thought I was very odd.

Louis L'Amour

At the earliest drawings of the fractal curve, few clues to the underlying mathematical structure will be seen.

Michael Crichton

I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood.

Mary Leakey

The first money I ever earned was for drawing stone tools.

Marie Dressler

My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards.

My paintings cannot be a negation of what has always been and always will be necessary - drawing and search for values.

Margaret J. Wheatley

In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature.

Michelangelo

Let whoever may have attained to so much as to have the power of drawing know that he holds a great treasure.

Lillie Langtry

My agent tells me I am drawing the largest salary ever paid in the halls of England. Wonderful, isn't it? for a quiet, rural gardener like myself.

Pablo Picasso

In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

Pablo Picasso

Matisse makes a drawing, then he makes a copy of it. He copies it five times, ten times, always clarifying the line. He’s convinced that the last, the most stripped down, is the best, the purest, the definitive one; and in fact, most of the time, it was the first. In drawing, nothing is better than the first attempt.

Pablo Picasso

I draw like other people bite their nails.

Pablo Picasso

Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper.

Pablo Picasso

To know what you're going to draw, you have to begin drawing.

Paul Ince

When I retire I'm gonna bet on Wolves drawing every game. I'll be a multi-millionaire!

Paul Cezanne

Pure drawing is an abstraction.

Paul Cezanne

Pure drawing is an abstraction. Drawing and colour are not distinct, everything in nature is coloured.

Patricia Reilly Giff

Drawing is what you see of the world, truly see...And sometimes what you see is so deep in your head you're not even sure of what you're seeing. But when it's down there on paper, and you look at it, really look, you'll see the way things are...that's the world, isn't it? You have to keep looking to find the truth.

Seth Godin

Isn't the drawing board the place where all the best work happens? It's not a bad thing to go back there. It's the entire point.

John Gray

Anything that makes you feel good is always going to be drawing in more.

If you're looking at the numbers of people that we can draw, the state lakes makes us a destination when it's drawing that many people, ... If you take that away, we could be lacking in the volume to be called that.

If you look at the original drawings you can see how sketchy some of them were,

It was like kids taking a pencil and drawing an outline around their hand.