Drawing Sites Quotes

#1. Plastic surgeons are always making mountains out of molehills.

Dolly Parton

#2. I started acting when I got a summer job at the Everyman Theater Company with the Neighborhood Youth Corps.

Robert Gossett

#3. I was born in 1949, and by the time I was 10, I figured out that my hope chest was not aimed in the same direction everybody else's was. And that life was going to be very, very complicated. And that I could either be provocative and declamatory, or shy, retiring and scared.

Dorothy Allison

#4. Because I'm not trying to throw people any curves.

Christy Romano

#5. That was my Malawian epiphany. Only Africans were capable of making a difference in Africa. All the others, donors and volunteers and bankers, however idealistic, were simply agents of subversion.

Paul Theroux

#6. Thou wouldst not think how ill all's here about my heart Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth I have of late - but wherefore I know not - lost all my mirth So

Jean Hegland

#7. On Earth, social networking generally involved sitting down at a nonsentient computer and typing words about needing a coffee and reading about other people needing a coffee, while forgetting to actually make a coffee.

Matt Haig

#8. What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?

Stanley Kubrick

#9. When you have children it completely shifts your focus; they become the most passionate love of your life.

Louis De Bernieres

#10. Because connection with others and our "best self" is the most primal need we have, shame feels absolutely awful.

Christiane Northrup

#11. When you turn up in Leicester Square and there are 5,000 people screaming your name and holding placards, that's just weird. It's hard to find a place for it in your brain that makes any sense. I'm not really comfortable in that sort of situation.

Sean Biggerstaff

#12. For making Adron human again. It's been a long time. (Tiernan)
Screw you, Tier. (Adron)
Yeah, bro, since when was Adron ever human? More like a festering subspecies of some kind. You know. Like a pimple on the ass of a warthog. (Taryn)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#13. The singer was lifted up and illuminated with gratitude, not for any one thing, but for the whole of his life, even for the agony. Even in Latin you could tell he was thanking God for the agony in particular, for the way it allowed him to cleave so tightly to the world.

Miranda July

#14. Once the bell is rung, you can't unring it.

Edan Lepucki

#15. Given the brevity of our time here, it does seem likely that our species, too, must have at best a blinkered understanding of the shape of things, the import of certain events and what distinguishes 'good' from 'bad' luck.

Karen Russell