Calligraphic Quotes

#1. I'm not a painter by any stretch of the imagination; I'm a dyed-in-the-wool traditional illustrator, and I begin with black and white. If I need colour, I add it over the top. There's a calligraphic element to it ... it's about the texture of lines on the page.

Chris Riddell

#2. The calligraphic letter is not entirely a letter,
but something that sits between writing and music

Abdelkebir Khatibi

#3. Through the small tall bathroom window the December yard is gray and scratchy, the tree calligraphic.

Dave Eggers

#4. I can't predict how reading habits will change. But I will say that the greatest loss is the paper archive - no more a great stack of manuscripts, letters, and notebooks from a writer's life, but only a tiny pile of disks, little plastic cookies where once were calligraphic marvels.

Paul Theroux

#5. On pristine parchment I draw with my skis calligraphic lines of joy, writing poems of movement.

Patricia Robin Woodruff

#6. Comedy is obviously a matter of personal taste and the world always needs a clown and some people have no taste at all and any clown will do.

Marc Maron

#7. Like other people, anthropologists may see only what they want to see, even when what they want to see is nothing.

J. Budziszewski

#8. Whatever you search for will either meet you halfway or wait for you.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#9. Does your license plate mean something?" Bing asked. "En-o-ess-four-a-two?"
"Nosferatu," the man Charlie Manx said.
"Nosfer-what-who?"
Manx said, "It is one of my little jokes. My first wife once accused me of being a Nosferatu. She did not use that exact word, but close enough.

Joe Hill

#10. If I had found the words I was looking for, I would not have read so much.

Mason Cooley

#11. The most important thing in a person's life is his faith and how he translates his faith into practical deeds.

Hakeem Olajuwon

#12. The greater good is achieved by not only telling people what they need to know, but also filling them with a sense of empathy and love.

Abigail Disney

#13. A life without criticism is not worth living.

Robert Kennedy

#14. And the quickest to harm a stranger are the soonest to think a stranger will harm them.

Robert Jordan

#15. I love wraps and shawls.

Torrey DeVitto

#16. I try to be thoughtful about spreading the wealth: young designers. Mixing things up is important to me.

Michelle Obama

#17. Leadership is the ability of a single individual through his or her actions to motivate others to higher levels of achievement.

Buck Rodgers

#18. His enemies had counted on the lions taking care of Daniel. What they hadn't counted on was his God taking care of Daniel.

Tony Evans

#19. In Japan, mothers insist on achievement and accomplishment as a sign of love and respect. Thus to fail places children in a highly shamed situation.

Michael Lewis