Top 100 Draw Quotes
#1. I used to get people criticizing me for drawing so many women with gorgeous idealized bodies, but I pointed out that I draw a lot of men with muscular bodies, washboard abs, and enormous wangs, and they never got criticized. So those criticisms have stopped.
Gilberto Hernandez Guerrero
#2. I will ask every government department to draw up a plan for civil service relocation outside London. And a Labour Treasury will set an objective for savings over the course of the next decade,
Ed Balls
#3. As an artist, as I design and lay out a page, the less-important things, things I want you to spend less time looking at, I draw them very small, maybe even silhouette them. The more-important pivotal scenes, I draw them larger, maybe even a double-page spread.
Jim Lee
#4. My opinions of which of my works are good are vastly different than other people's. There is one that I'm obsessed with but I swear ... no one else has ever even commented on it. So I'm a bit shy to draw attention to it.
Jemima Kirke
#5. There is a big deposit of sympathy in the bank of love, but don't draw out little sums every hour or so - so that by and by, when perhaps you need it badly, it is all drawn out and you yourself don't know how or on what it was spent.
Emily Post
#6. I love every part of the book writing process from the excitement of the initial idea to weaving all the tiny elements of the story from the air. I draw my inspiration from the landscape around me, from quirky characters I meet and from the strange and convoluted thoughts that dance between my ears.
JoAnne Graham
#7. The test of observance of Christ's teachings is our consciousness of our failure to attain an ideal perfection. The degree to which we draw near this perfection cannot be seen; all we can see is the extent of our deviation. LEO TOLSTOY The
Philip Yancey
#8. Her outflung hand turned over in the air. The gesture it described was infinitesimal, but it made Corrie draw in his breath and for the first time consider the possibility that perhaps the final emotion he might feel for his wife was hate. -Life Sentence
Rebecca West
#9. I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
Patrick O'Brian
#10. The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.
Isaac Newton
#11. Power runs with ideas that only the crazy would draw into doubt.
Lawrence Lessig
#12. Experience is valuable only if it's imbued with meaning from which one can draw salient conclusions. Otherwise, experience becomes imprisoning.
Barry McCaffrey
#13. Players draw confidence from a poised, alert coach who anticipates changing in game conditions
Jack Ramsay
#14. I'm interested in all kinds of art. I draw and paint and don't know how to play the banjo, but I do play the banjo.
Ellar Coltrane
#15. After 50 years of television, there's no other conclusion the aliens could draw, but that most humans are neurotic, death-hungry, dysfunctional idiots.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#17. I can feel the draw, her body calling to mine as animals do in heat. I'd fuck her like an animal; raw, hot, and fucking hard.
Amelia Hutchins
#18. I shall draw forth thy bones one by one ere I send thee to the devil. So that for all time thy shapeless body shall serve a a carpet for all the minions of Hell.
Steven Brust
#19. Kiss me yet once again, the last, long kiss, Until I draw your soul within my lips And drink down all your love.
Edith Hamilton
#20. I am among the few who continue to draw after childhood is ended, continuing and perfecting childhood drawing - without the traditional interruption of academic training.
Saul Steinberg
#21. I'd just say you hurt me and you hurt me only because you involved my family. But after that I'd say 'hey draw nearer to your family because that's exactly what I did.'
Manti Te'o
#22. Scripture is a never-failing treasury filled with boundless stores of grace. It is the bank of heaven; you may draw from it as much as you please, without let or hindrance. Come in faith and you are welcome to all covenant blessings.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
#23. In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.
Charles William Eliot
#24. And what lesson can we draw from Volantene history?"
"If you want to conquer the world, you best have dragons.
George R R Martin
#25. Chess will always be in the doldrums as a spectator sport while a draw is given equal mathematical value as a decisive result.
Michael Basman
#26. Hence monastic prayer, especially meditation and contemplative prayer, is not so much a way to find God as a way of resting in him whom we have found, who loves us, who is near to us, who comes to us to draw us to himself.
Thomas Merton
#27. GLHR ... has used Greenpeace-style media antics to draw more public attention to the plight of sweatshop workers than the multimillion - dollar international trade union movement has achieved in almost a century.
Naomi Klein
#28. An actor finds things in the moment with a director and other actors that you don't have time to hand-draw or animate with a computer.
Andy Serkis
#29. Because you simply cannot draw these things out forever. At some point, you just pull off the Band-Aid and it hurts, but then it's over
and you're relieved.
John Green
#30. As an editorial cartoonist now, I live for those moments of inspiration, and it is exhilarating to be inspired by a topic, have an opinion on the topic, come up with a good cartoon on the topic, and to draw it and get it in the paper the next day. That is what I live for.
Steve Breen
#31. If something inspires you, try and hold on to that inspiration because if you lose that inspiration, what do you have left? If music is your inspiration and it brings you together with friends, family or loved ones and that's the core of it, then always have it. Always draw from it.
Charlie Benante
#32. There comes a moment when people who have been dabbling in religion ('man's search for God'!) suddenly draw back. Supposing we really found Him? We never meant it to come to that! Worse still, supposing He had found us?
C.S. Lewis
#33. Admit only your victories until you have hooked their interest, then you draw them closer and admit the sort of failings that reflect well on a fellow, sentimental failings: that was the theory of courtship the young master had formulated...
Claire Robertson
#34. Wherever I wander off to, when I draw, when I paint, I get my life back. I am lucky that I am an Artist.
Hiroko Sakai
#35. In the garden of the soul, the virtues of faith, hope, and love form the centerpiece. Traditionally called theological virtues, they come as free gifts from God and draw us to God. We cannot earn these virtues; God has already freely planted them in our soul.
Robert Morneau
#36. I deal with painting as I deal with things, I paint a window just as I look out of a window. If an open window looks wrong in a picture, I draw the curtain and shut it, just as I would in my own room. In painting, as in life, you must act directly.
Pablo Picasso
#37. Touch a university with hostile hands and the blood you draw is prompt, copious, and real.
Diana Trilling
#38. If your thoughts are thoughts that draw low-frequency energy current to you, your physical and emotional attitudes will deteriorate, and emotional or physical disease will follow, whereas thoughts that draw high-frequency energy current to you create physical and emotional health.
Gary Zukav
#39. I need a watchman to tell me this is what a man says but this is what he means, to draw a line down the middle and say here is this justice and there is that justice and make me understand the difference.
Harper Lee
#41. When I started drama school, theatre was the main draw. I never had any movie star notions. Not that there were family ties to the theatre, either.
Anne-Marie Duff
#42. Time had passed, yet her heart held onto him. She did not draw breath without thinking of him. She did not dream without feeling his presence at her side. His voice, in memory, was sweeter than any she'd heard. And she did not want to be without him.
Sasha Summers
#43. I think writers can get too attached to these worlds they create, these characters they make real, so that, instead of ending the story where the story's asking to end, they draw it out, unable to let go.
Stephen Graham Jones
#44. All free governments, whatever their name, are in reality governments by public opinion ; and it is on the quality of this public opinion that their prosperity depends. It is, therefore, their first duty to purify the element from which they draw the breath of life.
James Russell Lowell
#45. Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.
Saint Augustine
#46. The houses looked like something a child might draw, a row of shaky squares with triangles on top. Add a door, add two windows. Think of putting a tree in the front yard, and then decide against it because branches aren't worth the trouble.
David Sedaris
#47. Who in the rainbow can draw the line where the violet tint ends and the orange tint begins? Distinctly we see the difference of the colors, but where exactly does the one first blendingly enter into the other? So with sanity and insanity.
Herman Melville
#48. The only thing I knew how to do was draw and play music.
DJ Ashba
#49. All those horrible, traumatic years I spent as a kid became what I draw from creatively today.
Steven Spielberg
#50. Its really a luck of the draw or fate or destiny, whatever you want to call it, but you dont know if youre going to resonate with people or not.
Blair Underwood
#51. Lucifer's last words in heaven may have been "Non serviam," but none has served the Almighty so dutifully, since His sideshow in the clouds would never draw any customers if it were not for the main attraction of the devil's hell on earth.
Thomas Ligotti
#52. Creating festivals made a major impact on society in general because you couldn't draw large crowds indoors. At Newport we were soon drawing crowds of 10,000 and there weren't halls that could hold that many people.
George Wein
#53. The mists seemed to draw back. Waxillium stood there, wearing a large, dusterlike coat, cut into strips below the waist. A pair of revolvers gleamed in holsters at his hips, and he rested a shotgun on each shoulder. His face was bloodied, but he was smiling.
Brandon Sanderson
#54. Ah! indeed he must not be mounted. It does not suit his ideas to be a saddle-horse. Every one has his ambition. 'Draw? Yes. Carry? No.' We must suppose that is what he said to himself.
Victor Hugo
#55. It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.
Queen Rania Of Jordan
#56. Generally I draw every day just to keep my hand in. I draw while I'm sitting on the Tube or in restaurants. Just doodling things and people I see.
Peter Capaldi
#57. Memory, that library of the soul from which I will draw knowledge and experience for the rest of my life.
Tove Ditlevsen
#58. We live on the circumference of a hollow circle. We draw the circumference, like spiders, out of ourselves: it is all criticism of criticism.
Laura Riding
#59. A life lived well is one you're not prepared to compromise just in order to draw it out for another day." "Well
Mark Lawrence
#60. Shane, listen, I need a favor."
"Sure, anything." She was the only woman in the world who could draw those words from his lips.
Elisabeth Naughton
#62. Our wishes never seem so little desirable as when on the verge of accomplishment; we draw back instinctively, they look so different from what we expected.
Geraldine Jewsbury
#63. From the moment we are born, we are
dying. Little by little, with each day that passes, we draw closer to the inevitable.
Jonathan L. Ferrara
#64. I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.
Beatrix Potter
#65. That's the role... you know the droll... you just learn how to draw a drone.
Deyth Banger
#66. There's always a point where you get knocked down. But I draw on what I've learned on the track: If you work hard, things will work out.
Lolo Jones
#67. When the sun rises, wake with a song
Search
Embrace dust
Balance
Soar - However briefly
Practice stillness
Release the life force
Draw from the circle of life
Lynn Brunelle
#68. Hopefully, we can build bridges, but we also have to draw lines.
Fred Thompson
#69. Imagine the world as a crayon box, and it took every colour to draw each of us. Adding a shade lighter and darker with each interaction. None would be black or white, either purely absorbing all, or reflecting each. #ColourMeSpotless
Nikhil Sharda
#70. The arithmetic is quite simple. Instead of playing Draw Something, fucking draw something! Take the cleverness you apply to Words with Friends and utilize it to make some kick-ass corn bread. Corn Bread with Friends - try that game.
Nick Offerman
#71. So we draw lines around our property, our counties, our cities, our states, our countries. And, boy, do we act as if those lines are important. I mean, we go to war. We will kill and die to protect those boundaries. Nature couldn't give two hoots about our national boundaries ...
David Suzuki
#72. So when you do your family tree and Margaret Cho does hers, and ... Wanda Sykes and John Legend ... we're adding to the database that scholars can then draw from to generalize about the complexity of the American experience. And that's the contribution that family trees make to broader scholarship.
Henry Louis Gates
#73. When we mean to build, We first survey the plot, then draw the model; And when we see the figure of the house, Then must we rate the cost of the erection.
William Shakespeare
#74. Great leadership isn't shaped in the absence of opposition but in the presence of it. Great leaders draw us together by our universal humanity; they galvanize the wills of the willing; they draw clarity from the spigot of chaos.
Charles M. Blow
#75. Love of knowledge can draw on its credit indefinitely ... love of knowledge is iron-clad.
Lydia Millet
#76. My ideas I can find anywhere. And I draw because I have to note down my ideas or flashes - I call them flashes, because they come to me, like that. Not so much in the plant drawings. I have to see them.
Ellsworth Kelly
#77. Draw a breath,
a deep breath,
now hold it, my friends,
hold it long
for the world
the world drowns.
Steven Erikson
#78. It's winner takes all, but a draw will do.
Mark Saggers
#79. Really, universally, relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so.
Henry James
#80. I push through the crowd and draw even nearer, so near I can smell him. So near I could touch him. I could take his hand, twist it just so and force him to his knees in an instant. He would never see it coming. He would barely know what happened. ~This
Shaun Roundy
#81. As you talk to Heavenly Father and pour out your heart to Him, you will draw closer to Him. Then pause, stop, and listen to the feelings of your heart. Seek to understand the promptings of the Spirit. As you pray sincerely, you will come to feel Heavenly Father's great love for you.
Margaret D. Nadauld
#82. The frightening thought that what you draw may become a building makes for reasoned lines.
Saul Steinberg
#83. As a child, because manga was always around and I was reading it, I naturally thought, 'Hey, I'd like to draw manga - I'd like to be a manga author!'
Natsuki Takaya
#84. I can't draw. I'm good on the yo-yo, but I don't draw.
Alex Turner
#85. Be silent and safe - silence never betrays you;
Be true to your word and your work and your friend;
Put least trust in him who is foremost to praise you,
Nor judge of a road till it draw to the end.
James Jeffery Roche
James McAllister
#86. In the creative arts you draw a special power. The discipline required is awesome to be an actor or an actress, to be really good, not just another one waiting tables.
Frederick Lenz
#87. If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as you photograph.
Bill Jay
#88. Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map ... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.
Stephen King
#89. A crooked stick can still draw a straight line, and a messed-up dude like me can still write about an awesome God.
Jefferson Bethke
#90. One of the hardest obstacles I've had to overcome in my life was not understanding how to draw healthy boundaries. I finally learned it's perfectly OK to say no.
Maria Canals Barrera
#92. Let our hearts touch far horizons.
Let our love know no borders,
Draw the Circles wide until,
No one stands alone.
Gordon Lightfoot
#93. I went to art school, and every Tuesday and Friday we drew the nude. If you look at Western painting, male and female nudes are in the center of every painting. It's difficult and exciting to draw the nude. Why get so upset about this? It's our duty to break taboos.
Peter Greenaway
#94. Love is an aspect of being, and when you act from being, the power you draw on is limitless because it comes from the source.
Deepak Chopra
#95. I happen to think Latinas, Latin women, are the most beautiful women in the world. So that's what I'm going to draw. I love women from all cultures, of course, but if I was going to deal with any of them, that would be No. 1 for me.
Gilbert Hernandez
#96. I do think that we all draw limits and I feel like part of the work of an artist is it shouldn't be fun. This shouldn't be comfortable. I'm not looking to make people feel unsafe, but I am looking to make people feel uncomfortable.
Junot Diaz
#97. If you carry a weapon, it is always to kill. Do not think it is to defend yourself. If you draw your weapon, never get closer than three meters to the person you want to kill,
Charles Kaiser
#98. No one can draw more out of things, books included, than he already knows. A man has no ears for that to which experience has given him no access.
Friedrich Nietzsche
#99. Is there no escape then?' said Frodo, looking around wildly. 'If I move I shall be seen and hunted! If I stay, I shall draw them to me!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#100. I'm a guy who is married to an actress, who has three children, and lives in Tribeca. Where do you draw the line on what I am allowed to discuss?
Paul Bettany
