(759 quotes found)
“Men's judgments areA parcel of their fortunes; and things outwardDo draw the inward quality after them,To suffer all alike.”
William Shakespeare
“After all the field of battle possesses many advantages over the drawing-room. There at least is no room for pretension or excessive ceremony, no shaking of hands or rubbing of noses, which make one doubt your sincerity, but hearty as well as hard hand-play. It at least exhibits one of the faces of humanity, the former only a mask.”
Henry David Thoreau
“I tended to faint when I saw accident victims in the emergency ward, during surgery, or while drawing blood. [On why he gave up medicine]”
Michael Crichton
“The pipe draws wisdom from the lips of the philosopher, and shuts up the mouth of the foolish: it generates a style of conversation, contemplative, thoughtful, benevolent, and unaffected.”
William Makepeace Thackeray
“The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be that dogma draws a circle round the mind.”
George Moore
“Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.”
William S. Burroughs
“Well, back to the old drawing board.”
Peter Arno
“Visual storytelling of one kind or another has been around since cavemen were drawing on the walls.”
Frank Darabont
“There are two ways to go about it. You can take a compass and draw a perfect circle and make two perfect eyes as neat as can be. Or you can do it freehand and have some fun with it. Like I did. Give it character.”
Harvey Ball
“It is not the horse that draws the cart, but the oats.”
Russian Proverb
