Draws Quotes - Page 5

• Sometimes you have to, as I say, build bridges where you can - but draw lines where you must.

  Fred Thompson

  Bridges, Lines, Sometimes

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• You can always draw as well as you know how to. I flatter myself that I feel more than I express on canvas; but I know that is not so.

  William Morris Hunt

  Knowledge, Canvas, Wells

  William Morris Hunt (1976). “William Morris Hunt on painting and drawing”, Dover Pubns

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• What draws me to the theatre, and what appealed to me about Too Much Light, is that you have no idea what's going to happen. That's the most exciting part of theatre, it's never the same. If it were, it would be like watching a movie.

  Lusia Strus

  Ideas, Light, Theatre

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• The holiday season promotes a heightened sense of community. It draws our chins up and helps us look above and over the limiting fence of our own events, activities and preoccupations. The opportunity for a heroic gesture can tap you quietly on the shoulder in the midst of a holiday bustle. If you are attentive, you will notice the gentle touch and will be able to respond. Remember... There are no small acts of kindness. Every compassionate act makes large the world.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Kindness, Holiday, Opportunity

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• And suns grow meek, and the meek suns grow brief, and the year smiles as it draws near its death.

  William C. Bryant

  Years, October, Sun

  William Cullen Bryant, “October”

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• Then there was the whole concept of coal mining, which is a culture unto itself, the most dangerous occupation in the world, and which draws and develops a certain kind of man.

  Martin Cruz Smith

  Men, Culture, Coal

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• What is it about sameness that so draws me, and how could I begin to have that same kind of attraction to change?

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Kind, Sameness, Attraction

  Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, p.89, Conari Press

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• Anyone who draws attention to himself as an individual, is viewed with suspicion. We acquired this tendency, of course, from America, and we must resist it: levelling, and imitation of what others are already doing.

  Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

  America, Attention, Imitation

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• NSF is the only federal agency with a proven track record of selecting education projects through a rigorous, careful and competitive process that draws on a wide variety of experts from outside government.

  Bob Inglis

  Agency, Government, Track

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• I draw whatever hits me.

  Matthew Ashford

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• Pick up a stone that feels good to you and is small enough to hold in one hand. Consider how long that stone has been around and what enormous pressure it has experienced. Draw strength from its long history.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Hands, Long, Feel Good

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• I didn't have the time to literally write and draw the strip at the same time.

  Bob Kane

  Writing

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• There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Religious, Atheism, Salary

  Decline and Fall (1928) pt. 2, ch. 4

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• 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?

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Drawing, Sometimes, Deny

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook F 123, 1799.

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• My job is to make images and leave the decision-making and conclusion-draw ing to other people.

  Laurie Anderson

  Jobs, People, Decision

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• I had never really thought of myself as a writer; any writing I had done was just to give myself something to draw.

  Len Wein

  Giving Up, Writing, Lenses

  "Speaking with...LEN WEIN". Interview with Marv Wolfman, www.marvwolfman.com.

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• I remember when I was in school, they would ask, 'What are you going to be when you grow up?' and then you'd have to draw a picture of it. I drew a picture of myself as a bride.

  Gwen Stefani

  Wedding, Growing Up, School

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• The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.

  Jack Dee

  Rain, Forests, Siberia

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• Everything that you read is an influence on everything you write, and you want to draw as many elements into your work as you can.

  Walter Jon Williams

  Work, Writing, Elements

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• The thorn from the bush one has planted, nourished and pruned pricks more deeply and draws more blood.

  Maya Angelou

  Blood

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou”, p.38, Random House

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• You'll probably get three horses and you have to draw a good buckin' horse. That's mighty tough.

  Chris LeDoux

  Horse, Three, Tough

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• I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.

  Annie Leibovitz

  Artist, Vocabulary, Style

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• What she did was to open our eyes to details of country life such as teaching us names of wild flowers and getting us to draw and paint and learn poetry.

  Laurie Lee

  Country, Flower, Teaching

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• I learned to draw everything except glamorous women. No matter how much I tried to make them look sexy, they always ended up looking silly... or like somebody's mother.

  Norman Rockwell

  Sexy, Mother, Stupid

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• Do not fail, as you go on, to draw something every day, for no matter how little it is, it will be well worthwhile, and it will do you a world of good.

  Cennino Cennini

  Art, Drawing, Sketching

  c.1400 Il Libro dell' Arte ('The Craftsman's Handbook').

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