Famous Quotes & Sayings

It's a good drawing card. People stop and they look it over. Inevitably, they'll come up and touch it.

It's a five-color crayon drawing done in 1963 when Picasso was 76-years-old. It's one of his favorite subjects: A Picador in a bullfight.

It may be his way of telling the generals to stop talking about drawing down the forces.

Vincent Van Gogh

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing

Ellsworth Kelly

I like to be able to get swift curves in the plant drawings that are usually drawn in five to ten minutes.

Vince Carter

I just wanted to push him out as far as I could and just stay down. He's good at that pump fake and drawing the foul late in the game. So I wanted to keep my hands up and make it a tough shot. If he makes it, he makes it.

Fred Trueman

I need nine wickets from this match, and you buggers had better start drawing straws to see who I don't get.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Gerald Scarfe

I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore.

Dan Rice

This first project is supposed to spark others. If we get any indication that it's not going to do that, I think we'd have to go back to the drawing board.

They were isolating (Banks) one-on-one, and he was getting into the lane, drawing fouls, and made a lot of free throws down the stretch.

Real estate is a huge factor in drawing people to Clifton Forge.

Matt Light

Prior to the acquisition, the lack of a PPM solution represented a significant gap in Borland's line of applications to support IT and application development management. The Tempo product is a key integration point for drawing Borland products together into an IT management application.

Jennifer Hewitt

They're drawing on your energy. They draw on your upset, on your stress, on your tired, on your emotional and whatever else is going on with you at the time. Because they pull your energy, you feel like you're sick.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

What is the good of drawing conclusions from experience? I don't deny we sometimes draw the right conclusions, but don't we just as often draw the wrong ones?

Jean Giraud

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

Jasper Johns

I love drawings, so I've always enjoyed making drawings that exist on their own.

Julia Child

Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure out of the kitchen, because cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music.

John Berger

Drawing is a way of coming upon the connection between things, just like metaphor in poetry reconnects what has become separated.

John Berger

Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it. You cant draw it for others. You can try, of course, but it doesn't work. People obeying rules laid down my somebody else is not the same thing as respecting life. And if you want to respect life, you have to draw a line.

Jimmy Fallon

Today is Earth Day. Environmentalists spent the day drawing attention to the Earth, while the Earth just spent the day checking Facebook to see which planets wished it a happy Earth Day.

Hilary Duff

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

Marilyn Monroe

What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?

Paula Rego

Sketches always have more vitality than paintings because you're finding things out through doing them.