Quotes About Scribbles

#1. These rapid scribbles, the pixels arranged by fingers henceforth forever still, acquired the macabre aspect of husks.

J.K. Rowling

#2. Longhand isn't well suited to my way of writing. I tend to end up with dozens of pages of crossings-out and margin scribbles just to find one good paragraph, and it's easy to lose your train of thought, working like that.

Steven Hall

#3. When trying to seduce a woman, a writer says: 'I'm a writer', and scribbles a poem on a napkin. It always works.

Paulo Coelho

#4. Theories look great on paper until reality scribbles all over the page.

Richelle E. Goodrich

#5. Next to me she seems like a clean blackboard, whereas I am full of crossed-out scribbles that I can no longer decipher.

Deborah Moggach

#6. Addison spoke in calligraphy while everyone else talked in scribbles.

Shawn Martin

#7. As when on some secluded branch in forest far and wide sits perched an owl, who, full of self-conceit and self-created wisdom, explains, comments, condemns, ordains and order things not understood, yet full of importance still holds forth to stocks and stones around - so sits and scribbles Mike.

Michael Faraday

#8. Writing is how I process the cacophony of each day. Prayer is how God makes sense out of my scribbles.

Donna Pyle

#9. It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the course of human affairs.

Stanislaw Ulam

#10. One day the rotting remains of their libraries will disintegrate so completely that they will be indistinguishable from the world's wrack of stray eddies and meaningless scribbles, the untide of heat death. The

Yoon Ha Lee

#11. Parents of young children are always acting. You act excited to read a story for the five-hundredth time. You act impressed someone went to the bathroom on the toilet. The excitement I show to some of the children's scribbles should get me a Golden Globe nomination.

Jim Gaffigan

#12. If a lunatic scribbles a jumble of mathematical symbols it does not follow that the writing means anything merely because to the inexpert eye it is indistinguishable from higher mathematics.

Eric Temple Bell

#13. Not that Beulah didn't present her own set of problems. She did. Not least of which was fighting the temptation to fake some scribbles on her and let the ghost have fun.

Stacia Kane

#14. Reality went out the window the moment we started mediating sensory input through a nervous system. You want to actually perceive the universe directly, without any stupid scribbles or model-building? Become a protozoan.

Peter Watts

#15. When you look at the paintings at Chauvet Cave, they're not primitive or like children's little scribbles, it bursts on the scene fully accomplished and when you look through the faces of cultural history, art history, it has never gotten any better.

Werner Herzog

#16. My notepad resting on my lap takes the scribbles of unspoken truth: effeminate men are very witty, whereas macho men are duller than death.

Morrissey

#17. I don't feel I write fast. I write in longhand and do so much revision. On the page, it's so old-fashioned. I could write a whole novel on scrap paper, scribbles and things. I keep looking at it and something develops. For me, using a word processor would mean staring at a screen for too many hours.

Joyce Carol Oates

#18. All intervening steps, scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed work models, studies thoughts, conversations, are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist are sometimes more interesting than the final product

Sol LeWitt

#19. But those who cannot write, and those who can, All rhyme, and scrawl, and scribble, to a man.

Alexander Pope

#20. I have a tremendous respect for writers who scribble away their torments, and their passions into plays.

Rob Urbinati

#21. Unsoundness in a slave, as well as in a horse, detracts materially from his value. If no warranty is given, a close examination is a matter of particular importance to the Negro jockey.

Solomon Northup

#22. When in doubt, scribble.

Jean Wilson

#23. Our job as managers in creative environments is to protect new ideas from those who don't understand that in order for greatness to emerge, there must be phases of not-so-greatness. Protect the future, not the past.

Ed Catmull

#24. We have to make a mark, even if it's only a scribble.

John Steinbeck

#25. Sometimes silence is not an indicator of not caring, but a way to give time and space to the one who's hurting. Only judge when time passes ad the void widens such that the chasm cannot be bridged.

Irene Fantopoulos

#26. Stella scribbled
in thick black texta
across half the pages
of my best storybook,
filled with people who ventured
where their hearts took them.
Beautiful worlds beyond mine.

Emma Cameron

#27. You never can tell
From a Minnipin's hide
What color he is
Down deep inside.

Carol Kendall

#28. You're reacted to the fear, but you haven't ever faced it and put it into the fight perspective. You have to make up your mind to overcome it.

Jim Butcher

#29. But then I remembered something Grandmere had once assured me of: No one has ever died of embarrassment-never, not once in the whole history of time.

Meg Cabot

#30. The turtle whose head
Is within his shell
Thinks the world outside
Is going well.

Carol Kendall

#31. And if you call me your fucking minder, I'll put your pretty blond head through that wall and use your arse as a guitar stand.
'Fair enough?

Andrew James

#32. You will never get everything in life but you will get enough.

Sanhita Baruah

#33. I tell a lot of fart and poop jokes. I can't help it. I have no filter, and it just comes out.

Tyler Posey

#34. She looked at the last thing she had written and she felt calm. Then she crossed the words out vehemently, scribbling until even the shape of the sentence was destroyed.

Helen Oyeyemi

#35. We all scribble poetry.

Homer

#36. I have nothing but respect for HBO.

James Gandolfini

#37. From out of the Then
And into the Now,
From the There to the Here
Come the Why and the How.

Carol Kendall