Quotes About Doodling

#1. I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It's my way of stirring up my imagination to see what I find hidden in my head. I call the results dream pictures, fantasy sketches, and even brain-sharpenin g exercises.

Maurice Sendak

#2. The Toothbrush mustache is the most powerful configuration of facial hair the world has ever known. It overpowers whoever touches it. By merely doodling a Toothbrush mustache on a poster, you make a political statement.

Rich Cohen

#3. Neal loved her, Georgie knew that. He couldn't keep his hands off her
he couldn't keep his ink off her; he was always doodling on her stomach or her thigh or her shoulder. He kept a set of Prismacolor markers by his bed, and when Georgie took a shower, the water rain rainbows.

Rainbow Rowell

#4. 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

#5. Doodling serves as a means of keeping the hand or fingers limber, so that they are always ready for serious work.

Charles E. Burchfield

#6. Let the pleasure of doodling led us to writing as decoration rather than to the peculiarly abstract sort of representation it inclines towards: the making of signs to look through rather than at.

Robert M. Kaplan

#7. I'm trying to inspire as many people as I can. I want the viewer to enjoy the art and I want the whole family to have something to react to. I hope that folks go home and do a bit of doodling and creating on their own.

Nathan Sawaya

#8. I took a Logo programming class in fifth grade. Logo is a language specifically designed for the classroom environment. It was basically doodling through words.

Gene Luen Yang

#9. Meanwhile, I was doodling pictures of vampiric cougars.

Jenny Lawson

#10. And as I was sort of doodling, I was thinking, surprise and fear - probably fairly similar so let's just lose surprise. And that left us with five.

Pete Docter

#11. Under no circumstances should doodling be eradicated from a classroom or a boardroom or even the war room. On the contrary, doodling should be leveraged in precisely those situations where information density is very high and the need for processing that information is very high.

Sunni Brown

#12. If men only knew, modesty makes women fall in love faster than all the cock-a-doodling in the world.

Barbara Kingsolver

#13. The last thing I need is to morph into one of those people who's always wearing black and doodling guns and bombs on her notebook.

Lauren Oliver

#14. I'll never forget that little apple box I stood on because I couldn't reach the microphone. My name was written on it and it's sitting at Diana Ross's house now. She has all my little doodling papers I would draw and write.

Michael Jackson

#15. I do recall how I got the ideas for some of my books. Many of them are a result of doodling.

Bill Peet

#16. I made an appointment to see him and then ordered another beer. While I was drinking it I did some doodling on a piece of paper, the algebraic kind that you hope will help you think more clearly. When I finished doing that, I was more confused than ever. Algebra was never my strong subject.

Philip Kerr

#17. But when I was a kid, I would look at the paper next to the phone and I would think to myself, "I want to do that." So I started doing that. [doodling]

Jeff Vespa

#18. I was always doodling house sketches.

Jonathan Knight

#19. Many years after animating Ariel, I continue to draw her, doodling as I talk on the phone, absent-mindedly passing time in a sketchbook. She has become a part of me and yet now belongs to the world and generations to come.

Glen Keane

#20. I grew up with an Apple 2E - I had a deep, emotional attachment to that machine - and I loved doodling.

Gene Luen Yang

#21. I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I am trying to communicate through my writing. My images are like drawings in a science text book.

Devdutt Pattanaik

#22. When it comes to emotions, women know how to paint with the full set of oils, while men are busy doodling with crayons.

Hank Moody

#23. Of all the soul divas, Gladys Knight was the one for me. Knight's always been about tone and heart, none of the big showboating or extraneous doodling. She nailed a melody and only played a little around the edges like Ma Staple.

Alison Moyet

#24. For me, the joy of doing it is doodling when I want to. But if I had to do it, I'd lose the joy.

Matthew Ashford

#25. I was just doodling at the typewriter,

Larry McMurtry

#26. My eyes rolled over to my best friend, Kate Green, who was doodling intricate flowers all over her notes and looked like she was thoroughly entertaining herself.

Courtney Allison Moulton

#27. I think the consensus among our generation and people younger than us is that we do have a defining challenge in the moment, so I do like being involved in something bigger than the finger-doodling I do in art. It stimulates your brain in certain ways.

Edward Norton

#28. I was an anorexic, beer drinking, class cutting, doodling, shoplifting, skater chick that was into nature, art class, and the beach.

Rebecca Miller

#29. I'm comfortable singing jazz. The only thing I was concerned about is that everybody, even in jazz, has their own style. To me, the queen of doodling was Ella Fitzgerald, and scatting is something I never thought I could do.

Gladys Knight

#30. In the space of one lifetime, the Internet has opened up opportunities that were previously inconceivable.

Najib Razak

#31. She had not died there. A funeral is not death, any more than baptism is birth or marriage union. All three are the clumsy devices, coming now too late, now too early, by which society would measure the quick motions of man.

E. M. Forster

#32. Everyone is always having their attention divided between the world of people [they're] with and this 'other' reality.

Sherry Turkle

#33. In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.

Billie Jean King

#34. There really is no Johnny Carson anymore. There is no one place a comedian can appear and explode.

Tom Leykis

#35. To be a Christian is to realize that in your sin, you were separated from God's presence, and you deserved nothing but God's wrath.

David Platt

#36. Never thought I'd see the day when Death was denied. That leaves taxes as the only certainty.

Piers Anthony

#37. Good sense, disciplined by experience and inspired by goodness, issues in practical wisdom.

Samuel Smiles