Crayon Quotes - Page 3

• I began drawing probably when I was - around the same time everybody else puts a mark on a piece of paper with a crayon - when I was two, probably. The difference between me and everybody else is, I kept doing it for the rest of my life; there was something very satisfying about that.

  David Small

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. November 18, 2009.

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• I was always doing paintings. I actually started painting with oil paints when I was four years old. Not crayons, not pencils and that kid of stuff. I'd paint birds. Anything that moved, stuff like that.

  Paul Laffoley

  Kids, Oil, Years

  Source: www.paranoiamagazine.com

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• You get older and you are a whole mess of things, new thoughts, sorry feelings, big plans, enormous doubts, goling along hoping and getting disappointed, over and over again, no wonder I don't recognize my little crayon picture. It appears to be me and it is and it is not.

  Virginia Euwer Wolff

  Sorry, Feelings, Doubt

  Virginia Euwer Wolff (2001). “True Believer”, p.3, Simon and Schuster

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• Down in Texas, Rick Perry announced he will not run for reelection. He said 'I executed one last woman, that fertilizer plant exploded, I returned abortions to back alleys where it belongs, my work here is done.' I think that's what he said, he was chewing a crayon.

  Bill Maher

  Running, Thinking, Back Alleys

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• I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling inside my head without having any way to express itself. Given a crayon and paper, I would not draw a train or a house. I would draw these monsters, beasts and demons.

  Clive Barker

  Kids, Imagination, Bored

  FaceBook post by Clive Barker from Dec 13, 2012

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• When I tell her what I’m thinking and she tells me what she’s thinking, our each ideas jumping into the other’s head, like coulouring blue crayon on top of yellow that makes green.

  Emma Donoghue

  Thinking, Jumping, Blue

  Emma Donoghue (2015). “Room: Picador Classic”, p.14, Pan Macmillan

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• I mean there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation... so when I meet someone who's an 8-color type... I'm like, 'Hey girl, magenta!' and she's like, 'Oh, you mean purple!' and she goes off on her purple thing, and I'm like, 'No - I want magenta!'

  John Mayer

  Girl, Mean, Color

  "The Best Excellently Random Horror Movie Performances" by Lauren Sarner, www.inverse.com. October 27, 2015.

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• I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buddy.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Orange, Forgiving, Fifth Grade

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• If a restaurant offers crayons, I always take them and color throughout the meal. It beats talking to the people I came to dinner with.

  Stephan Pastis

  Color, Talking, People

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• I always feel like an idiot every time I fly first class because I’m a kid. And I just sit there, and everyone’s got their newspapers and they’re on the computer, and I’m like, 'Can I get a coloring book, please? Can I get some crayons?'

  Jennifer Lawrence

  Life, Book, Kids

  "Late Night with Jimmy Fallon", 2012.

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• What is fabulous about gay marriage is that it redefines the gender designated jobs, then you throw in transgender and you don't just have the five primary colors of the crayons. We have to really look at what it means to be a man or a woman in a much more generous and creative way.

  Susan Sarandon

  Mean, Gay, Men

  Source: chicago.gopride.com

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• Bands-- enough with the crayon face-paint-- you're better than that.

  Ted Leo

  Band, Faces, Enough

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• Survive first. Figure out crayon drawing of destiny later.

  Rick Riordan

  Destiny, Drawing, Firsts

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• What I notice is that every adult or child I give a new set of Crayolas to goes a little funny. The kids smile, get a glazed look on their faces, pour the crayons out, and just look at them for a while....The adults always get the most wonderful kind of sheepish smile on their faces--a mixture of delight and nostalgia and silliness. And they immediately start telling you about all their experiences with Crayolas.

  Robert Fulghum

  Children, Kids, Giving

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• The Doctor: Oh, now what's this, then? I love this. A big, flashy-lighty thing. That's what brought me here. Big, flashy-lighty things have got me written all over them. Not actually, but give me time... and a crayon.

  Steven Moffat

  Doctors, Giving, Bigs

  "Doctor Who / A Christmas Carol". www.imdb.com. 2010.

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• An artist spends himself like the crayon in his hand, till he is all gone.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Artist, Hands, Gone

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Joel Porte (1982). “Emerson in His Journals”, p.386, Harvard University Press

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• The remainder of my schooldays were no more auspicious than the first. Indeed, they were an endless Project that slowly evolved into a Unit, in which miles of construction paper and wax crayon were expended by the State of Alabama in its well-meaning but fruitless efforts to teach me Group Dynamics.

  Harper Lee

  Effort, Groups, Alabama

  Harper Lee (2014). “To Kill a Mockingbird (Enhanced Edition)”, p.25, Harper Collins

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• We're being lead by an idiot with a crayon.

  Eoin Colfer

  Idiot

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• I knew that I wanted to be an illustrator since I was in kindergarten. I can remember the exact day. The art teacher usually came to our classroom once a week, but she was absent that day. Instead, our regular teacher gave us each a huge piece of paper and crayons, and we could do whatever we wanted.

  Jan Brett

  Teacher, Art, Pieces

  Source: www.teachingbooks.net

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• Talking. According to Marc, I could talk the color off a crayon.

  Rachel Vincent

  Color, Talking

  Rachel Vincent (2010). “Pride”, p.101, MIRA

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• The Indian is but a sketch in red crayon of a rudimental manhood. To the problem of his relation to the white race, there is one solution: extermination.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Race, White, Politics

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• We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better. Then it melts. The bus drivers rev their engines and the ice cloud shatters. Everyone shuffles forward. They don't know what just happened. They can't remember.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Cheating, Girlfriend, Lying

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• Being tame is what we're taught: ... put the crayons back, stay in line, don't talk too loud, keep your knees together, nice girls don't...
  As you might know, nice girls DO, and they like to feel wild and alive. Being tame feels safe, being wild, unsafe. Yet safety is an illusion anyway. We are not in control. No matter how dry and tame and nice we live, we will die. And we will suffer along the way. Living wild is its own reward.

  Sark

  Girl, Nice, Safety

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• Since fat crayons, I write and display chaos. My plan is damage.

  Louis Eric Barrier

  Art, Writing, Media

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• Chances are that any helpful two-year-old will break some eggs. We are often not very good at things when we are new. But there may be an important choice to make at such moments. Do we support and protect the innate wish to be of help to others in our children, or do we protect the eggs? Hard as it seems, the greater mother wisdom may lie in a willingness to clean up broken eggs or replace a mitten and a box of crayons.

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Mother, Children, Lying

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