Top 100 Draper's Quotes
#1. Should you have liked your sister to have been noticed by a grocer's assistant for doing so?"
"In the first place, as it is not many years since I myself was a draper's assistant, the mere circumstance of a grocer's assistant noticing any act does not alter the character of the act to me.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#2. 'English fair play' is a fine expression. It justifies the bashing of the puny draper's assistant by the big hairy blacksmith, and this to the perfect satisfaction of both parties, if they are worthy the name of Englishman.
Joseph Furphy
#3. Right away, I invited on guests like Steve Wozniak, John Draper, and even porn star Danni Ashe, who took her top off in the studio to show us all how hot she was. (Listen up, Howard Stern, I'm following in your footsteps!)
Kevin D. Mitnick
#4. [A] person is so much more than the name of a diagnosis on a chart.
Sharon M. Draper
#5. The irony of talking to animals and an imaginary girlfriend, who keep me sane, even though I know I look like a raving lunatic, isn't lost on me.
Elyse Draper
#6. You can never judge a paint hue by the liquid color in the paint pot. You must apply it to a wall, wait for the paint to dry, then decide.
Dorothy Draper
#9. Too often when we're buying or building a house we do not consider each room. We are carried away by one charming feature and are blind to details that will give us trouble later on.
Dorothy Draper
#10. Each grabbing one silver-wrapped chocolate from Mrs. Cooper's basket, it struck Stella that everyone got the same thing, no matter which school they went to.
Sharon M. Draper
#11. Bush always has viewed himself as an "activist," which flies in the face of some conservative notions, such as the federal government's role in education.
Robert Draper
#13. So great was the preference given to sacred over profane learning that Christianity had been in existence fifteen hundred years, and had not produced a single astronomer.
John William Draper
#15. Try to look at everything through the eyes of a child.
Ruth Draper
#16. It's hard to imagine you and Daddy as ever being young and foolish. I figured you just appeared one day, fully grown and knowing all the answers, she teased.
Sharon M. Draper
#18. Bad writers don't practice, Stella. It's the good ones who care enough to try, who worry about getting the words just right. You are probably better than you think -Papa
Sharon M. Draper
#19. Don't buy a bedroom suite, but collect your pieces separately - generally cheaper and always the decorator's way of furnishing.
Dorothy Draper
#20. Stella's father hesitated. "Georgia supports me, but she was a mite trembly this morning. I brought Stella though."He squeezed her shoulders affectionately. "I don't want to just tell her about bravery--I want to show her what it looks like.
Sharon M. Draper
#21. Bush told me, he doesn't watch TV ... though it's untrue that he doesn't read the newspapers.
Robert Draper
#22. A divine revelation must necessarily be intolerant of contradiction; it must repudiate all improvement in itself, and view with disdain that arising from the progressive intellectual development of man.
John William Draper
#23. The situation was primordial. The Man beneath prevailed for a moment over the civilised superstructure, the Draper. He pushed at the pedals with archaic violence. So Palaeolithic man may have ridden his simple bicycle of chipped flint in pursuit of his exogamous affinity.
H.G.Wells
#24. He said I was the most sensitive person he had ever seen- that I belonged to the hyper-hyper type and we rarely survive!
Ruth Draper
#25. I am Death ... and I am haunted and horrified by life.
Elyse Draper
#26. She talked to me like I was just like any other student, not a kid in a wheelchair.
Sharon M. Draper
#27. I like how a book feels when I turn the pages, and how the ink smells - almost like something good to eat.
Sharon M. Draper
#29. Earthquake report: Call the paramedics. A girl in fifth grade is about to explode.
Sharon M. Draper
#30. One series of notes, high and delicate, sang of a sweet moonlight kiss gone sour; another line of music rippled with regret over opportunities forever lost.
Sharon M. Draper
#32. Only by fighting for democratic power do workers educate themselves up to the level of being able to wield that power.
Hal Draper
#33. Delete, delete, delete. No way am I letting their negativity mess me up. I have enough to worry about.
Sharon M. Draper
#34. Courage, enthusiasm, awareness
if only one can keep these to the end.
Ruth Draper
#36. The class laughed. I can tell the difference between people making fun of us and people being nice to us.
Sharon M. Draper
#38. It's like I've always had a painted musical sound track playing background to my life. I can almost hear colors and smell images when music is played.
Sharon M. Draper
#39. Every movement in the skies or upon the earth proclaims to us that the universe is under government.
John William Draper
#40. There seems to be within all of us an innate yearning to be lifted momentarily out of our own lives into the realm of charm and make believe.
Dorothy Draper
#41. Mom I can' read and the school might be open in three weaks
Sharon M. Draper
#42. What I love about the Don Draper character is that he's so real and filled with all these contradictions.
Jerry Della Femina
#43. Look at that amazing display of sparkle! And feel that wind? It's trying to tickle your toes,
Sharon M. Draper
#44. I'm sorry you lost the suit,' he said.
She shrugged.
'At this point, it was mostly a metaphor anyway,' she said ...
James S.A. Corey
#45. Teachers must be celebrated for moving civilization from ignorance to enlightenment, from apathy to responsibility.
Sharon M. Draper
#46. I always put in one controversial item. It makes people talk.
Dorothy Draper
#47. This can be one of cheerfulness or gloom because color which is so inexpensive, is what does the trick. Not color alone but color plus imaginative lighting and cleverly grouping of the furniture. You say you have an old lobby that nothing much can be done with? Oh yes it can!
Dorothy Draper
#48. I can't talk. I can't walk. I can't feed myself or take myself to the bathroom. Big bummer.
Sharon M. Draper
#49. The finest thing about a hobby is that you can't do any pretending about it. You either like it or you don't.
Dorothy Draper
#51. If Maria is our hugger, Gloria is our rocker. She rocks for hours in the corner under one of the dumb smiling flowers.
Sharon M. Draper
#52. Do you know what courage is? I guess you don't. Do you know that the courage it took at that moment - to actually blow yourself away - was more than enough courage to keep on living?
Sharon M. Draper
#53. What's right isn't always popular, and whats popular isn't always right.
Sharon M. Draper
#54. All the salve in the world can't cure what gets broken in somebody's soul -Mama
Sharon M. Draper
#55. You may concentrate on appearances all through the rest of your house, but in the bedroom comfort should be supreme. I think that bedrooms should also be very intimate rooms-they should express your personal preferences in every way ... Of all the rooms in the house your bedroom is yours.
Dorothy Draper
#56. How is it that the Church produced no geometer in her autocratic reign of twelve hundred years?
John William Draper
#57. I know people will say that it's because of the accident that I came back to church-well, they're right. I'm not too proud to know when a problem is bigger than I am.
Sharon M. Draper
#58. A library filled with thousands of books waiting for a thirsty kid like me to gulp them down.
Sharon M. Draper
#59. He has a beauty to him that is not quite angelic, a quality that's both ethereal and dark. (Jonathan)
Helen Boswell
#60. Bush made a point of emphasizing to me that unlike his father's administration, his was one of significant "walk-in access" to the Oval Office.
Robert Draper
#61. When students ask me today, 'What do you think we should learn from this book?' I tell them, 'Whatever you got out of it.'
Sharon Draper
#62. Mirrors have come to mean much more than the original 'looking glass.' They are now a part of the decorative scheme of a modern home. By using them, there are no dark, gloomy corners, no drab caverns for halls. There can be a feeling of freedom, light, air, space.
Dorothy Draper
#63. Finally he said, "Bad writers don't practice, Stella. It's the good ones who care enough to try, who worry about getting the words just right. You are probably better than you think.
Sharon M. Draper
#64. Without the local library in my neighborhood, I don't think I would have grown up to be a writer or a teacher.
Sharon M. Draper
#65. Dad also has the loudest, stinkiest farts in creation. I don't know how he manages to control them at work, or even if he does, but when he'd get home, he'd let them loose. They'd start as he walked up the stairs.
Sharon M. Draper
#67. I'm able to leave Don Draper at work. I'm quite dissimilar from him in real life.
Jon Hamm
#68. You don't sell a commodity, you sell joy, gaiety, excitement. You aim at people's hearts, not their minds.
Dorothy Draper
#70. I worked at Sears as a salesperson when I was in college. Makes me nicer to folks to have to stand all day and be nice to picky people.
Sharon Draper
#71. What stops us from moving forward is fear. Fear is crucial. Without it, humans would never have lived long enough to evolve into what we are today.
Michael Draper
#72. [T]he clouds the miller saw as bags of flour, the draper as unironed calico, the confectioner as baked meringue, old Katina the spinster as a bridal veil and Madame Nana as an extension of her climbing rose, while Savvas admired them fulsomely as just clouds.
Ioanna Karystiani
#73. Eating is really one of your indoor sports. You play three times a day, and it's well worth while to make the game as pleasant as possible.
Dorothy Draper
#75. Don't aim for riches, child. Aim for happiness. -Mrs. Mills
Sharon M. Draper
#78. Not again, Draper," Frank sighed. "You're not going to stop us from crossing. You and I know that the one thing the Government does even more poorly than provide healthcare is secure its borders.
Randy Quarles
#79. Everybody uses words to express themselves. Except me. And I bet most people don't realize the real power of words. But I do. Thoughts
Sharon M. Draper
#80. I'd love to dance with grace and style, to move as easily as I write.
Sharon Draper
#81. I do research for every single book, regardless. For 'Double Dutch,' I learned to jump and learned the scoring system. For 'November Blues,' I interviewed pregnant teens. I like to get up close and personal with the kids involved in the situations I write about.
Sharon Draper
#82. I believe in me. And my family does. And Mrs. V.
It's the rest of the world I'm not so sure of.
Sharon M. Draper
#83. Moderation assures mediocrity
nice, safe. Mediocrity is for the mediocre
simple, okay. The intense rule; the mediocre follow.
Dave Draper
#84. The trouble with success is - it takes all your time. And you can't do the things you really want to do!
Ruth Draper
#85. A couple of weeks later my dad and I were in the car and we passed by a McDonald's. I screeched and kicked and pointed like Godzilla was coming down the street. Dad must have thought I was nuts. Finally, he said, "Would you like to stop and get a Big Mac and a shake for dinner tonight as a treat?
Sharon M. Draper
#86. Good liquor is not cheap. Cheap liquor is not good.
Dorothy Draper
#87. I don't want to paint myself as some kind of saint - that would be laughable - but I do think I've been able over the years to write humanely about subjects who are controversial and even contemptible. I've profiled pedophiles, stalkers, serial rapists, prison gang members and corrupt politicians.
Robert Draper
#88. It is just as disastrous to have the wrong accessories in your room, as it is to wear sport shoes with an evening dress.
Dorothy Draper
#89. I was just thinking about me having children. Or being a grandma!" She giggled. "Think I'll be fat and have gray hair?"
"I sure hope so," her father said, laughing himself.
Sharon M. Draper
#90. Time, to the nation as to the individual, is nothing absolute; its duration depends on the rate of thought and feeling.
John William Draper
#91. I start with an idea or a problem or a conflict, or even a situation that might be pertinent to the lives of young people, then the characters grow from that point. I try to make strong characters that change and develop and learn from their mistakes.
Sharon Draper
#92. Writing, for me, is a very fluid process. I sit down and wait for the words to come. They usually do - in buckets and waves. I look upon it as a blessing because the words come so easily.
Sharon Draper
#93. I always think out a problem as clearly as possible, and then act on it. My theory has always been to get started. The moment I get an idea I act upon it. If only people would act on more of their ideas, I am convinced they would lead more interesting lives.
Dorothy Draper
#94. She's, like, really, really beautiful, but I don't think she sees that when she looks in the mirror.
Sharon M. Draper
#95. If you want to be a visionary, go out and have some accidents!
Timothy C. Draper
#96. Why does everybody need to talk about everything?
Don Draper
#97. People say I'm the original Don Draper. I'm not Don Draper.
George Lois
#98. I started this career because I loved doing houses. I'd done three of my own and I couldn't keep on moving my family all the time, so I decided to decorate other people's homes and buildings.
Dorothy Draper
#99. Earthquake report: Expect big aftershocks - nothing like this has ever been seen before.
Sharon M. Draper
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