Paint Quotes - Page 9

• You can sing only what you are. You can paint only what you are. You must be what your experiences, your environment, and your heredity have made you. For better or for worse, you must play your own little instrument in the orchestra of life.

  Dale Carnegie

  Play, Orchestra, Littles

  Dale Carnegie (2010). “How To Enjoy Your Life And Your Job”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Anyway, it's like with bikes,' said the first speaker authoritatively. 'I thought I was going to get this bike with seven gears and one of them razorblade saddles and purple paint and everything, and they gave me this light blue one. With a basket. A girl's bike.' 'Well. You're a girl,' said one of the others. 'That's sexism, that is. Going around giving people girly presents just because they're a girl.

  Terry Pratchett

  Girl, Light, Blue

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• It is terrible to have to ask for anything ever. We wish we were something that needed nothing, like paint. But even paint needs repainting.

  Miranda July

  Wish, Needs, Terrible

  Miranda July (2008). “No One Belongs Here More Than You: Stories”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• it is amazin, she thinks, how simple appearances can be created - a rush, a smile, a new coat of paint, a slow, calm voice, a hug, a new dress - a resolve to keep out questions and cling to secrets

  Mary E. Pearson

  Simple, Thinking, Voice

  Mary E. Pearson (2008). “A Room on Lorelei Street”, p.142, Macmillan

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• When a girl uses six derogatory adjectives in her attempt to paint the portrait of the loved one, it means something. One may indicate a merely temporary tiff. Six is big stuff.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Girl, Mean, Adjectives

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• It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint inside me.

  Jenny Downham

  Children, Black, Tin

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• Leah: "That is easily the freakin’ grossest thing I’ve ever heard in my life. Yuck. If there was anything in my stomach, it would be coming back." Seth: "They are vampires, I guess. I mean, it makes sense, and if it helps Bella, it’s a good thing, right?" Leah and Jake stare at Seth. Seth: "What?" Leah: "Mom dropped him a lot when he was a baby." Jake: "On his head apparently." Leah: "He used to gnaw on the crib bars, too." Jake: "Lead paint?" Leah: "Looks like it." Seth: "Funny. Why don’t you two shut up and sleep?

  Stephenie Meyer

  Mom, Baby, Mean

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• You’re really not right, are you? Yeah, I know. It was all the paint chips I ate as a kid. They were good, but chromosomally damaging. (Nick)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Kids, Chips, Yeah

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2010). “Infinity: Chronicles of Nick”, p.204, Macmillan

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• But Valentine, why despair, why always paint the future in such sombre hues?" Maximilien asked. "Because, my friend, I judge it by the past.

  Alexandre Dumas

  Valentine, Past, Judging

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• This is the swamp as I see it, but what I can’t capture on canvas is you as I see you. No brush or paint will ever show the hero that you are. It will never be able to portray the sound of your voice when you whisper my name. The way my skin tingles when you touch me. The passion of you inside me. I love you, Talon. I know that I can’t keep you. No one can ever tame a wild beast. You have a job to do and so do I. I only hope that when you think of me, it’ll bring a smile to your face. Love always, Sunshine. (Sunshine's note)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Jobs, Love You, Hero

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2013). “The Dark-Hunters”, p.934, Macmillan

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• Oh, yes! Fill the churches with dirty thoughts! Introduce honesty to the White House! Write letters in dead languages to people you've never met! Paint filthy words on the foreheads of children! Burn your credit cards and wear high heels! Asylum doors stand open! Fill the suburbs with murder and rape! Divine madness! Let there be ecstasy, ecstasy in the streets! Laugh and the world laughs with you!

  Grant Morrison

  Children, Honesty, Dirty

  "Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth". Comic book by Grant Morrison, 1989.

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• You must make, always. You must act, if you believe something. Talking about acting is like boasting about pictures you're going to paint. The most terrible bad form.

  John Fowles

  Believe, Talking, Acting

  John Fowles (1963). “The collector”

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• My God, Sage. Your eyes. How have I never noticed them?" That uncomfortable feeling was spreading over me again. "What about them?" "The color," he breathed. "When you stand in the light. They're amazing... like molten gold. I could paint those..." He reached toward me but then pulled back. "They're beautiful. You're beautiful.

  Richelle Mead

  Beautiful, Eye, Light

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.263, Penguin

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• You know what talent is? The curse of expectation. As a kid you have to deal with that, beat it somehow. If you can write, you think God put you on earth to blow Shakespeare away. Or if you can paint, maybe you think--I did--that God put you on earth to blow your father away.

  Stephen King

  Father, Writing, Kids

  Stephen King (2016). “Skeleton Crew”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me. Why should it keep what I must lose? Every moment that passes takes something from me and gives something to it. Oh, if it were only the other way! If the picture could change, and I could be always what I am now! Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day—mock me horribly!

  Oscar Wilde

  Jealous, Giving, Portraits

  Oscar Wilde (2017). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (English French Edition illustrated): Le Portrait de Dorian Gray (Anglais Français édition illustré)”, p.61, Clap Publishing, LLC.

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• You are very clever,' said the old man shyly. 'I would like to eat your brains, one day,' For some reason the books of etiquette that Daphne's grandmother had forced on her didn't quite deal with this. Of course, silly people would say to babies, 'You're so sweet I could gobble you all up!', but that sort of nonsense seemed less funny when it was said by a man in war paint who owned more than one skull. Daphne, cursed with good manners, settled for, 'It's very kind of you to say so.

  Terry Pratchett

  Baby, Sweet, Clever

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• When they shall paint our sockets gray And light us like a stinking fuse, Remember that we once could say, Yesterday we had a world to lose.

  Stanley Kunitz

  Light, Yesterday, World

  Stanley Kunitz (1974). “The terrible threshold: selected poems, 1940-1970”, Harvill Secker

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• 3 whole Catfish, Wrapped separately Veet (It’s for Shaving your legs Only you don’t Need A razor. It’s with all the Girly cosmetic stuff) Vaseline six pack, Mountain Dew One dozen Tulips one Bottle Of water Tissues One Can of blue Spray paint

  John Green

  Girly, Blue, Water

  John Green (2013). “Paper Towns”, p.31, A&C Black

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• Did you eat a lot of paint chips as a child?

  Steven Tyler

  Children, Chips

  "American Idol, Season 10: Season Premiere" by Nina Rastogi, www.slate.com. January 20, 2011.

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• You know what else is hot?" said a nameless blonde as she put her arm around the one black girl. "What?" "Bisexuals." "Totally. Well, not like real bisexuals who are just sort of your everyday people, but, like, the kind of bisexuals you see in magazines wearing nothing but body paint and kissing both boys and girls to promote a new single." "Totally, totally hot.

  Libba Bray

  Girl, Real, Kissing

  Libba Bray (2011). “Beauty Queens”, p.210, Scholastic Inc.

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• My name is October Christine Daye; I live in a city by the sea where the fog paints the early morning, parking is more precious than gold, and Kelpies wait for the unwary on street corners. Neither of the worlds I live in is quite mine, but no one can take them away from me. I did what had to be done, and I think I may finally be starting to understand what's important. It's all about finding the way home, wherever that is. I plan on finding out. I have time.

  Mira Grant

  Morning, Home, Thinking

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• How memories lie to us. How time coats the ordinary with gold. How it breaks the heart to go back and attempt to re-live them. How crushed we are when we discover that the gold was merely gold-plating thinly coated over lead, chalk and peeling paint.

  Henry Rollins

  Memories, Lying, Heart

  Henry Rollins (2009). “The Portable Henry Rollins”, p.127, Villard

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• A vocation is not something you slap on, like a coat of paint, and change whenever you want. A vocation is built into you. You have no choice. If you try to do something else, you fail.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Choices, Trying, Coats

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• Abe swept in, resplendent in a gray and yellow suit that coordinated bafflingly well with Adrian's paint job.

  Richelle Mead

  Jobs, Yellow, Suits

  Richelle Mead (2011). “Bloodlines”, p.263, Penguin

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• I know that when a supersexy older girl with hips and breasts and nice hair wants to take off your glasses and to paint you a smoky eye she's merely trying to enroll you in a beauty contest she's already won. It's a kind of slummy, condescending gesture, like when rich people ask poor people where they summer. To me, this smacks of a blatant, insensitive "let them eat cake" type of chauvinism.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Summer, Girl, Nice

  "Damned". Book by Chuck Palahniuk, 2011.

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