Draws Quotes

• Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers.

  William Shatner

  Epic, Aliens, Computer

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• Obviously an actor draws on his own experience.

  Christopher Walken

  Experience, Actors

  "Interview: Christopher Walken" By Jeff Otto, www.ign.com. October 6, 2004.

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• Men are often capable of greater things than they perform - They are sent into the world with bills of credit, and seldom draw to their full extent.

  Horace Walpole

  Future, Greatness, Men

  Horace Walpole, George Vertue (1798). “The Works of Horatio Walpole, Earl of Orford ...”, p.371

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• Well, my son really loves wildlife. And everytime he draws a polar bear I want to tell him there probably won't any by the time... he's my age. That's kinda hard to deal with.

  Thom Yorke

  Son, Age, Want

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• Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

  A. E. Housman

  Perfect, Poetry, Understanding

  "The Name and Nature of Poetry". The Leslie Stephen Lecture, Cambridge University, May 09, 1933.

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• While most students were trying to draw one beautiful finished piece, I would be in the background drawing dozens of studies at different angles to use later.

  Fred Perry

  Beautiful, Athlete, Drawing

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• Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

  John Howe

  Moving, Character, Support

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• And you know, when you take on something like this, you read a book like this, you know that it's going to be an adventure. That's part of what draws you to it.

  Lawrence Kasdan

  Travel, Book, Adventure

  Interview with Stax, www.ign.com. March 21, 2003.

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• It is sometimes well for a blatant error to draw attention to overmodest truths.

  Jean Rostand

  Truth, Mistake, Science

  Jean Rostand (1962). “The substance of man”

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• As the third anniversary of the September 11th attacks draws near we must ensure our nation is prepared to handle the continued threat of violence and terrorism on our country.

  Leonard Boswell

  Anniversary, Country, September 11

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• Nobody cared about swimming. You could draw a crowd for basketball.

  Merlin Olsen

  Basketball, Swimming, Crowds

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• You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease And boldness is the root of beauty - Which draws us together.

  Boris Pasternak

  Life, Fall, Roots

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• I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.

  Barbara Hepworth

  Art, Body, Feels

  Barbara Hepworth (Dame), Alan Bowness (1967). “Drawings from a sculptor's landscape”

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• It could draw from a greater reservoir of freedom. The irony could develop an even greater ease.

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Ease, Irony, Reservoirs

  Interview with Marika Griehsel, www.nobelprize.org. November 2004.

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• My style is where you see the individual and where a personality is communicated through actions, decisions, single objects and facts, where the whole draws together to form a history

  Martin Kippenberger

  Personality, Decision, Style

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• Nature is a dictionary; one draws words from it.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Dictionary

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• The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

  Morris Raphael Cohen

  World, Philosopher, Logic

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• I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.

  Laurent Fabius

  Government, Europe, Lessons

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• The time draws near, when a radical change must take place for the whole world in the management of diplomacy.

  Lajos Kossuth

  World, Radical Change, Management

  Lajos Kossuth (1853). “Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman”, p.1

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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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• There is a good ear, in some men, that draws supplies to virtue out of very indifferent nutriment.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Stressed, Ears

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.199

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• It is normal for politicians in all countries to profess themselves the pupils of history, anxious to draw the right lessons from her teaching.

  Douglas Hurd

  Country, Teaching, Lessons

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• What I wanted to do was to get that sense of being in touch with this lost world while holding onto what draws readers and audiences there in the first place.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  House, World, Firsts

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• One of the big draws of the show is here's a guy who is ordinary in a lot of ways but, due to his profession, he's placed in extraordinary situations that he has to make right with action and with thought. That's what is appealing about Jack - he takes charge.

  Kiefer Sutherland

  Guy, Ordinary, Way

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• All human language draws its nature and value from the fact that it both comes from the Word of God and is chosen by God to manifest himself. But this relationship is secret and incomprehensible, beyond the bounds of reason and analysis.

  Jacques Ellul

  Secret, Analysis, Facts

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