Draws Quotes

• It's easy. You draw a red line on the ground, right? Then you wait for a chicken to come along. When he arrives, he puts his beak right on the line and he's hypnotized!

  Joey Santiago

  Waiting, Red Lipstick, Lines

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• One hair of a woman can draw more than a hundred pair of oxen.

  James Howell

  Hair, Oxen, Pairs

  'Familiar Letters' (1645-55) bk. 2, letter 4

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• In an area where nothing was known, medicine had to draw on social lore.

  Virginia E. Johnson

  Medicine, Social, Areas

  "Best of the Century" by Albert Ellis, www.psychologytoday.com. November 1, 1999.

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• When we draw on the tablet, the drawing shows up on the computer screen. If we have chosen to tell the computer that the stylist is to behave like a piece of chalk, or a pen, or a wet brush, it will.

  Buffy Sainte-Marie

  Drawing, Pieces, Stylist

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• I have been to several wars to draw. I went to Vietnam. And made drawings in Vietnam during that period of the war there, and found that to be a very very sad situation.

  Gerald Scarfe

  War, Drawing, Vietnam

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• Well, I didn't know how to draw very well back then, in the '40s and '50s.

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  Wells, Know How, Knows

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• My thoughts are crowded with death and it draws so oddly on the sexual that I am confused to be attracted by, in effect, my own annihilation.

  Thom Gunn

  Confused, Aids, Annihilation

  "In Time Of Plague". Poem by Thom Gunn, www.theguardian.com. 1992.

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• We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.

  Giordano Bruno

  Together, Delight, Existence

  Giordano Bruno (1962). “Cause, Principle, and Unity: Five Dialogues”

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• I look at life, the experiences I've had, at the human condition, the dynamics between people, the news (world news), and draw from the compelling realities all around us.

  Leslie Banks

  Reality, People, World News

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• Although I still occasionally paint and draw, my life has now been shaped by my writing.

  Russell Banks

  Writing, Paint, Stills

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• My grandfather was a cop in Long Island. I often try to draw on things that I've heard about him.

  Yancy Butler

  Islands, Long, Grandfather

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• I've never been opposed to nudity. I've been opposed to nudity for box-office draw.

  Neve Campbell

  Office, Nudity, Boxes

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• My issue in the past with nudity was that these scenes had been written solely for box office draw.

  Neve Campbell

  Past, Issues, Office

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• The level of detail and craft is something that's inscribed within the original design concept. And so when I begin to draw, I know what kind of detailing I want the building to have.

  Tadao Ando

  Design, Details, Levels

  Interview with Architectural Record, www.coldbacon.com. May 2002.

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• I never take any notes or draw charts or make elaborate diagrams, but I hold an image of the shape of a book in my head and work from that mental hologram.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Book, Shapes, Notes

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• Well, I've been a big fan of comic books since I was a little kid. In fact, I used to write and draw my own comic books when I was on the old Lost in Space series.

  Bill Mumy

  Book, Writing, Kids

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• Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiation - creation - there is one elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Ignorance, Commitment, Ideas

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• To draw does not simply mean to reproduce contours; the drawing does not simply consist in the idea: the drawing is even the expression, the interior form, the plan, the model. Look what remains after that! The drawing is three fourths and a half of what constitutes painting. If I had to put a sign over my door to the atelier, I would write: School of drawing, and I'm certain that I would create painters.

  Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres

  School, Mean, Writing

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• The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

  Bill Vaughan

  Government, Coal, Shutting Down

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• I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy.

  Jim Carrey

  Mother, Crazy, Madness

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• When I travel, I draw and paint sketches which is great fun. And as long as you are fully aware that it has nothing to do with actual art, I think that's all right.

  Arne Jacobsen

  Art, Travel, Fun

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I think people should be free to engage in any sexual practices they choose; they should draw the line at goats, though.

  Elton John

  Sex, Thinking, Practice

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

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• There are some who speak well and write badly. For the place and the audience warm them, and draw from their minds more than they think of without that warmth.

  Blaise Pascal

  Writing, Thinking, Mind

  Blaise Pascal, W. F. Trotter, T. S. Eliot (2003). “Pensees”, p.12, Courier Corporation

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• Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.

  Jack Prelutsky

  Perfect, Imagination, My Own

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• Experience seems to most of us to lead to conclusions, but empiricism has sworn never to draw them.

  George Santayana

  Experience, Conclusion, Empiricism

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.40, Sheba Blake Publishing

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