Brushes Quotes - Page 23

But you have to learn to bend a little," said Clary with a yawn. Despite the story's content, the rhythm of Jace's voice had made her sleepy. "Or you'll break." "Not if your strong enough," said Jace firmly. He reached out, and she felt the back of his hand brush her cheek.

Cassandra Clare

Strong, Hands, Voice

Cassandra Clare (2010). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (3 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass”, p.186, Simon and Schuster

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Read the dictionary from A to Izzard today. Get a vocabulary. Brush up on your diction. See whether wisdom is just a lot of language.

Carl Sandburg

Vocabulary, Diction, Today

Carl Sandburg (2015). “Honey and Salt”, p.45, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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A guy out there was meant to be the love of your life, your best friend, your soul mate, the one you can tell your dreams to. He'll brush the hair out of your eyes. Send you flowers when you least expect it. He'll stare at you during the movies, even though he paid $8 to see it. He'll call to say goodnight or just cause he's missing you. He'll look in your eyes and tell you, you're the most beautiful girl in the world, and for the first times in your life, you'll believe it.

Nicholas Sparks

Boyfriend, Beautiful, Girl

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I sit for two or three hours and then in 15 minutes I can do a painting, but that's part of it. You have to get ready and decide to jump up and do it; you build yourself up psychologically, and so painting has no time for brush. Brush is boring, you give it and all of a sudden it's dry, you have to go. Before you cut the thought, you know?

Cy Twombly

Inspirational, Time, Art

"What Makes art, Art?" by Amber Kane, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 13, 2016.

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Before I put brush to canvas, I question, 'Is this mine? ...Is it influenced by some idea which I have acquired from some man? ...I am trying with all my skill to do a painting that is all of women, as well as all of me.

Georgia O'Keeffe

Men, Skills, Ideas

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I wanted to create a kind of substance by means of brush-work. But that is the kind of discovery which one makes gradually... Thus it was that I subsequently began to introduce sand, sawdust and metal filings into my pictures.

Georges Braque

Mean, Discovery, Substance

"Cahiers d'Art" by Dora Vallier, p. 76, 1954.

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I never draw except with brush and paint.

Claude Monet

Drawing, Paint, Draws

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Knowledge of anatomy is a tool like good brushes.

Robert Henri

Knowledge, Tools, Anatomy

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My aim is to escape from the medium with which I work; to leave no residue of technical mannerisms to stand between my expression and the observer. To seek freedom through significant form and design rather than through the diversion of so-called free and accidental brush handling.

Andrew Wyeth

Expression, Design, Significant

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Where the vast cloudless sky was broken by one crow I sat upon a hill - all alone - long ago; But I never felt so lonely and so out of God's way, As here, where I brush elbows with a thousand every day.

Harry Kemp

Lonely, Long Ago, Sky

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I knocked part of my tooth out with a scrubbing brush on stage whilst singing 'Hard Knock Life' in Annie.

Sarah Jessica Parker

Singing, Teeth, Annie

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Nothing quite delivers the full experience of being out there like floating around soaking up the warmth of the early morning rays with a brush in hand.

Cory Trepanier

Morning, Hands, Rays

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For a decade Americans have been steeped in the rhetoric of "zero tolerance" and the faith that virtually all problems from drug addiction to lousy teaching can be solved by pouring on the punishment. Even without a Commander in Chief who pledges to rid the world of evildoers, smoke them out of their holes and the like, we would be vulnerable to the temptation to brush aside frustrating complexities and relieve intolerable fear (at least for the moment) by settling on one or more scapegoats to crush. To imagine that trauma casts out fantasy is a dangerous mistake.

Ellen Willis

Crush, Zero, Mistake

"Dreaming of War". "The Nation", October 15, 2001.

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So, I mean to say, as for those who are proving their allegiance with what I would call sickening perseverance, and who are urging the president to brush away the constitution, those I would like to remind of a Russian proverb: "Don't spit into the well, it'll come in handy once you're thirsty.

Vladimir Posner

Perseverance, Mean, President

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What makes the Southern Poverty Law Center particularly odious is its habit of taking legitimate conservatives and jumbling them with genuine hate groups (the Klan, Aryan Nation, skinheads, etc.), to make it appear that there's a logical relationship between say opposing affirmative action and lynching, or demands for an end to government services for illegal aliens and attacks on dark-skinned immigrants. The late novelist/philosopher Ayn Rand called this 'the broad-brush smear.'

Don Feder

Hate, Dark, Government

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Your thoughts are like the artist's brush. They create a personal picture of the reality you live in.

Sydney Banks

Artist, Reality

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By the choices we make, by the attitudes we exhibit, we are influencing lives every day in positive or negative ways...our family, our peers, our friends, and even strangers we've never met before and will never meet again. So when you brush your teeth every morning, look in the mirror and ask yourself...'Are there things I'd like to change?'

Mac Anderson

Morning, Attitude, Mirrors

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I've been trained in dancing and I used to be quite good, though I am a bit rusty right now. But I could probably brush up in a couple of months.

Brittany Murphy

Couple, Dancing, Months

"Happy Feet - Brittany Murphy interview". IndieLondon interview, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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How do you become enlightened? Have fun, meditate, don't take yourself too seriously, brush between incarnations and have a good teacher.

Frederick Lenz

Teacher, Buddhist, Fun

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You cannot have one bathroom. And it don't matter how much you love your wife and everything, 'cause you wind up with no room at all. You just get a little corner and you've got a toothbrush and your paste and a shaving brush and a razor. And you can never get in there. So you must have two bathrooms. You really must. I think it's essential.

Michael Caine

Love You, Thinking, Wind

"Michael Caine: A Life Large Enough For An Encore". Interview with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. October 30, 2010.

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Makeup is my world, and I know that a little things . . . the right technique, colour or brush . . . can make all the difference.

Rae Morris

Makeup, Differences, Technique

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Now, I’m not even saying that girls shouldn’t have princesses in their lives, the archetype in and of itself is not innately wrong, but there should be more options to choose from. So that was my intent, to demonstrate how ridiculous it is to paint an entire gender of heroes with one superficial brush.

David Trumble

Girl, Princess, Hero

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Actresses are so spoilt - we have someone who does our hair for us on set, so we don't know how to do it ourselves in real life. I know how to wash my hair and brush my teeth, but that's about it!

Clemence Poesy

Real, Hair, Teeth

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Show business is like riding a bicycle - when you fall off, the best thing to do is get up, brush yourself off and get back on again.

Gilda Radner

Fall, Riding, Actors

Gilda Radner (2015). “It's Always Something”, p.43, Simon and Schuster

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Ideas brush past fleeting and insubstantial as moths. But I let them go, I don't want them. What I want is a voice.

Joyce Carol Oates

Past, Ideas, Voice

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