(118 quotes found)
“I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.”
Charlie Chaplin
“All is but toys: renown, and grace, is dead; The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees Is left this vault to brag of”
William Shakespeare
“It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.”
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
“The minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure that it was drawn up by a lawyer”
Will Rogers
“The percentage of mistakes in quick decisions is no greater than in long-drawn-out vacillation, and the effect of decisiveness itself 'makes things go' and creates confidence”
Anne O'Hare McCormick
“Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand-the one doing the important job-unnoticed.”
David K Shipler
“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
“Tom's great yellow bronze mask all draped upon an iron framework. An inhibited, nerve-drawn; dropped face -- as if hung on a scaffold of heavy private brooding; and thought.”
Virginia Woolf
“I walk on untrodden ground. There is scarcely any part of my conduct which may not hereafter be drawn into precedent.”
George Washington
“We are drawn to easy labels. ... It's a human characteristic to dichotomize things into black and white because it makes things seem so clear. But if you did the real story about a triangle like this, it wouldn't be as interesting.”
Elayne Rapping
