Famous Quotes & Sayings

William Cowper

From reveries so airy, from the toil / Of dropping buckets into empty wells, / And growing old in drawing nothing up.

Patrick Keeler

I'd usually go to Jack if Brendan was busy. There was also a series of paper, rock, scissors, drawing lots and, ultimately, a duel.

From the beginning, we said we would wait for the science prior to drawing any conclusions.

Elizabeth Kenny

One of the puppets is a drawing on my thumb. That is Handsome Percy.

I have always been interested in drawing as long as I can remember.

I have been drawing since I was very little and I have been playing hockey for five years.

Jeff Koons

If I try to articulate every little detail in a drawing, it would be like missing the forest for the trees, so it's just about getting the outline of the forest.

Chris Ware

Drawing on a computer doesn't make any sense to me. It's not intuitive.

George Carlin

Before they invented drawing boards, what did they go back to?

Frederick Forsyth

He was one of the masters of the thriller and he really was one of the great signposts, because he took the spy thriller out of the gentility of the drawing room and into the back streets of Istanbul and where it all really happened, ... The Day of the Jackal.

Fiona Apple

I’m amorous but out of reach / A still life drawing of a peach.

Henry Moore

I sometimes draw just for its own enjoyment.

Henry Moore

The construction of the human figure, its tremendous variety of balance, of size, of rhythm, all those things make the human form much more difficult to get right in a drawing than anything else.

Christopher Alexander

Drawings help people to work out intricate relationships between parts.

Jeanette Winterson

When I say 'I will be true to you' I am drawing a quiet space beyond the reach of other desires.

Jim Dine

More important than having a romance with the object that I'm drawing, is to have a romance with the mark that I am making.

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.

Gwen John

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

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.

One project on the drawing board, and it may very well be the first thing that we'll be moving, is our diagnostic imaging department.

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.

We had hoped that the people of Florida would have an opportunity to speak on this question, whether they want self-interested politicians drawing their own districts. We just have to go back to the drawing board.

We were moving our feet a lot and drawing a lot of penalties. It was the way we wanted to come out.

Patrick Marber

Well, I never know how much an actor puts of themselves in, and how much they're drawing on personal experience, and I wouldn't like to pry.

Christopher Fowler

The drawings are terribly good.

Christian Lacroix

There are days when I'm completely depressed and able to do only one drawing

Christian Louboutin

I am very bad at drawing. Seriously. I can draw shoes. That's about it.

Hayao Miyazaki

I don't have the story finished and ready when we start work on a film. I usually don't have the time. So the story develops when I start drawing storyboards. I never know where the story will go but I just keeping working on the film as it develops. It's a dangerous way to make an animation film and I would like it to be different, but unfortunately, that's the way I work and everyone else is kind of forced to subject themselves to it.

Gil Kane

It was exactly an assembly line. You could look into infinity down these rows of drawing tables.

Gerald Scarfe

Where as in animation you have to kind of do a series of drawings in between to complete the movement.

Jean Giraud

The comics were not only stories to enjoy; for me they were drawings that possessed me.