Paint Job Quotes

#1. Fire engine red paint job, big block V8 rumbling, the 1968 Ford Mustang elicited envious stares from nearly everyone it passed.

Andrew Clawson

#2. You might be a redneck if your vehicle has a two-tone paint job - primer red and primer gray.

Jeff Foxworthy

#3. The child will leave the nest. The best paint job will crack. The best play will become boring. The best work will grow tedious. The best art will lose meaning. The greatest creation will decay. Behind all this, lies my true self.

Vironika Tugaleva

#4. There were no ashtrays and no sign of my philosophic cowpoke. I sensed he had been heading this way and most likely, spotting the spanking new paint job, just kept on going. I looked around. Nothing to hold me here, either, not even the dried carcass of a dead bee.

Patti Smith

#5. Your marriage," Jake said, almost impatiently. "It's like the grapes. Just a paint job."
He went straight to bed.

Charlie Carillo

#6. Abe swept in, resplendent in a gray and yellow suit that coordinated bafflingly well with Adrian's paint job.

Richelle Mead

#7. Sergeant Hicks seemed to be laid out in squares as though he were constructed out of cinder blocks. There was a hardness to his body that made his uniform appear to be little more than a paint job. He walked as if each step he took was driving a hated enemy toward a precipice.

Pat Conroy

#8. Faded like morning fog in the rising sun, sports team logo on a cheap T-shirt, ninety-nine dollar paint job on a Chevy.

Dennis Vickers

#9. I had to paint the picture that I was never scared, otherwise I couldn't do my job. But now, as an actor, I'm literally paid to look emotionally accessible.

Zoe Bell

#10. I assisted with Russ [Manning] for about eleven months and my day job for 5 days a week was credit manager and paint salesman for Sherwin-Williams.

Mike Royer

#11. With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

William Wordsworth

#12. I had a job as an illustrator, and I wanted to change the direction of my work. I moved to the country, and immediately I started to paint fairies and trolls.

Brian Froud

#13. I've had people accuse me of being too tough of a grader. But my job is to paint reality versus telling people what they want to hear.

Steve Burke

#14. There is more blood than paint upon these hands. All those thousands of men killed. We thought it would be a little job, and so it might have been if it had begun in the right way.

Winston Churchill

#15. I pulled the oxygen tubes from my nostrils and raised the tube up over my head, handing it to Dad. I wanted it to be just me and just him.

John Green

#16. Then when I heard the story of Who Moved My Cheese?, I realized my job was to paint a picture of 'New Cheese' that we would all want to pursue, so we could enjoy changing and succeeding, whether it was at work or in life.

Spencer Johnson

#17. Brand planning must continue to paint a vivid description of the consumer today. The challenge is that it can feel like this picture changes daily. Planning's job is to help separate the temporary shifts from foundational understanding that underpins overall behaviour.

James W. Moseley

#18. The prisoner of Auschwitz, in the first phase of shock, did not fear death. Even the gas chambers lost their horrors for him after the first few days - after all, they spared him the act of committing suicide.

Viktor E. Frankl

#19. My father had a healthy disregard for social conventions: he once let me paint the house windows in rainbows with my watercolor set, to my mother's horror, and he'd clap for trees that he thought were doing a good job of exploding into red during the fall.

Jennifer DuBois

#20. Death before Decaf!

Elizabeth Noble

#21. My job is to paint what I see, not what I know.

J. M. W. Turner

#22. I am convinced that each work of art, be it a great work of genius or something very small, has its own life, and it will come to the artist, the composer or the writer or the painter, and
say, "Here I am: compose me; or write me; or paint me"; and the job of the artist is to serve the work.

Madeleine L'Engle

#23. Prayer is God's plan to supply man's great and continuous need with God's great and continuous abundance.

Edward McKendree Bounds

#24. I think the writer's job is to paint the gray because no life is clearly defined.

Andre Dubus

#25. Painters paint outdoors, or in rooms full of people; they paint their lovers, alone, naked; they paint and eat; they paint and listen to the radio. It is a soothing way of doing your job.

Paul Theroux

#26. He was willing to pay her to hang around his house and paint Piper's fingernails? It sounded as easy as Britney Spears.

Erin McCarthy

#27. Why do writers, say, give up a job in economics and decide to write poetry? Or, why do they give up a job in a bank and decide to paint, like Krishan Khanna? They want to convey something.

Vikram Seth

#28. It isn't an easy job to paint oneself - at any rate if it is to be different from a photograph. And you see - this, in my opinion, is the advantage that impressionism possesses over all the other things; it is not banal, and one seeks after a deeper resemblance than the photograph.

Vincent Van Gogh

#29. Volnaka ... did a remarkable job of getting anyone drunk with alacrity. It also worked well as a combustible in lamps, as paint remover, was a marvelous antiseptic and was singularly effective at erasing any memory of ever having imbibed it

J.R. Hardesty

#30. It really is a day job, and it also seems to have virtually disappeared-with no remorse, really. It gives me more time to paint.

Martin Mull