Crayon Quotes - Page 2

• I'm carded for R-rated movies. And I get talked down to a lot. When I try to go rent a car or buy an airplane ticket or other stuff adults do, I get "Okaaaaaay, honey." I remember when I was 18, getting crayons in a restaurant.

  Kristen Bell

  Airplane, Car, Trying

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Big flashy things have my name written all over them. Well... not yet, give me time and a crayon.

  Matt Smith

  Names, Giving, Bigs

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• (Talking about his first computer) Like all kids we not only fooled around with our toys, we changed them. If you've ever watched a child with a cardboard carton and a box of crayons create a spaceship with cool control panels, or listened to their improvised rules, such as "Red cars can jump all others," then you know that this impulse to make a toy do more is at the heart of innovative childhood play. It is also the essence of creativity.

  Bill Gates

  Children, Fun, Heart

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• If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.

  Robert Fulghum

  New Year, Party, Color

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• I never had the exposure to techniques and so forth that children have today with art workshops, but I always had crayons and pencils and still have work going right back to when I was five or six years old

  Robert Indiana

  Art, Children, Years

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• ...Someone speaks in soft tones to me and says I am psychotic, but it's going to be all right. I put on my hat, unperturbed, and ask for some crayons.

  Marya Hornbacher

  Tone, Hats, Speak

  Marya Hornbacher (2009). “Madness: A Bipolar Life”, p.73, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The use of the right word, the exact word, is the difference between a pencil with a sharp point and a thick crayon.

  Peter Marshall

  Differences, Use, Thick

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• Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Art, Lying, Long

  Tremendous Trifles (1909) "On Lying in Bed"

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• I do quite a lot of art, with a small 'a'. I guess that is how I was dredged up, with paints and crayons. Even when I was at nursery, I knew instinctively how to mix colours, how to make purple or orange.

  Amanda Harlech

  Art, Purple, Orange

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• At the end of the world the sunset is like a child smashing a pack of crayons into God’s face.

  Craig Stone

  Children, Sunset, End Of The World

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• My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold.

  Joni Mitchell

  Eight, Gold, Silver

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• Beauty without colour seems somehow to belong to another world.

  Murasaki Shikibu

  World, Colour, Seems

  Murasaki Shikibu (1936*). “The tale of Genji: a novel”

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• Some people have things written all over their faces; the big guy had a couple of words misspelled in crayon on his.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Couple, People, Guy

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• You don't impress the officials at NASA with a paper airplane. You don't boast about your crayon sketches in the presence of Picasso. You don't claim equality with Einstein because you can write 'H20.' And you don't boast about your goodness in the presence of the Perfect.

  Max Lucado

  Writing, Airplane, Perfect

  Max Lucado (2008). “Lucado 2in1 (In the Eye of the Storm & Applause of Heaven)”, p.144, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs.

  Clifford Stoll

  Kids, Paper, Paint

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• Never invest in anything that cannot be illustrated with a crayon

  Peter Lynch

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• Used to be marketing was viewed as the people with crayons and scissors who did creative work. Now it's seen as central to driving growth.

  Jim Speros

  People, Creative, Growth

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• When drawing the sun, try to have on hand colored paper, chalk, felt-tip markers, crayons, pencils, ball point pens. You can draw a sun with any one of them. Also remember that sunset and dawn are the back and front of the same phenomenon: when we are looking at the sunset, the people over there are looking at the dawn.

  Bruno Munari

  Sunset, Drawing, Hands

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• I always wrote little things when I was younger. My first opus was a book of poems put down in a spiral notebook at five or six, handsomely accompanied by crayon illustrations.

  Nicole Krauss

  Notebook, Illustration, Littles

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• We either learn to accept or we end up writing letters home with crayons.

  Stephen King

  Home, Writing, Letters

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• You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing.

  Paul Strisik

  Writing, Typewriters, Important

  Paul Strisik, Charles Movalli (1980). “The art of landscape painting”

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• Certain peer pressures encourage little fingers to learn how to hold a football instead of a crayon. I confess to having yielded to these pressures.

  Chris Van Allsburg

  Football, Peer Pressure, Peers

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• With the art therapy, as soon as they saw the paper and crayons coming, we couldn't get it out fast enough. And we told them to draw about the tsunami.

  Connie Sellecca

  Art, Paper, Saws

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• The little boy went first day of school He got some crayons and started to draw He put colors all over the paper For colors was what he saw And the teacher said.. "What you doin' young man?" "I'm paintin' flowers" he said She said... "It's not the time for art young man And anyway flowers are green and red There's a time for everything young man And a way it should be done You've got to show concern for everyone else For you're not the only one.

  Harry Chapin

  Teacher, Art, Flower

  Song: Flowers Are Red, 2007

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• When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Writing, Humor, Men

  "Kurt Vonnegut: In His Own Words". The Times (London), April 12, 2007.

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