Famous Quotes & Sayings

First-graders send in drawings of the gecko. Great-grandmothers do needlepoint pillows of the gecko. Hardly a day goes by when someone doesn't suggest an idea about what the gecko should do next.

Writers do draw inspiration from their own lives, which, quite frankly, might be more interesting than fiction.

Paul Rand

In the Orthodox religion, you don't draw the human figure. It's against the rules.

Charles Spurgeon

Living animals are too eccentric in their movements, and the law of gravitation usually draws me from my seat upon them to a lower level; therefore, I am not an inveterate lover of horseback.

Pete Carroll

When you first look at their team, you can't see anything but him. He's a fantastic player. Your eyes are drawn to him.

When you have three weeks to prepare, you draw some things up in the dirt. Unfortunately, in the end, they were just better than we were.

We lucked out in getting this game for a Friday night. Oliver is a natural draw for us because it's a big neighborhood rivalry.

We lucked out in getting this game for a Friday night, ... Oliver is a natural draw for us because it's a big neighborhood rivalry.

Ryan Dempster

When you draw up a relay play, that's the way to draw it up.

When you draw it up, you'd like to see a few more runs early and have a nice, comfortable finish.

We've got to do something about this. They owe some of you guys millions of dollars. It's time to draw a line in the sand.

Matt Bomer

While I feel that I have a great reservoir to draw from as an actor for lots of different roles, it is difficult because it can be an industry where it's people's jobs to thin-slice you really quickly and try to fit you into a niche in the market.

Scott Skiles

We have made it a point of emphasis all year. Our guys have to use better judgment about when to shoot (the ball) and when to drive and draw contact. There were some games when we were in the penalty (situation) for four or five minutes and still had not shot a free throw.

When we look back at the results, we need to show improvement on our finishes, starts, relays and that kind of thing. We're going back to the drawing board.

We called the play out, ... Our guys in the huddle said, 'Watch the draw,' and a draw it was. We had a guy in space looking to make the play and didn't.

Roz Chast

My works were not - and they still aren't - single panel gags with a punch line underneath them. I like a lot of those cartoons; I just don't draw them.

Rachel Joyce

I'm drawn to people who find themselves on the outside of things. I'm moved by that in real life.

Keven Mealamu

We have got to go back to the drawing board.

You can look at the numbers different ways and draw different conclusions. It's always been a mixed picture.

You can literally lose them. The pressure, the power to operate the springs is from the aquifer. If you draw it down too far, they're gone. It's not something that can come back. We don't know the science as far as how to make it come back.

Margaret Walker

We wanted to draw from the guidance and expertise of the people that have already gone through this. For us, this has been very informative.

We've had people drawing names out of hats to see what the crews were going to be because everybody wanted to do it.

Matt Dillon

To start with I have family in New York. That's really important to me. But New York is also an endless well of inspiration. Ideas come to me in New York. I'm drawn toward reality, authenticity. I find that more in New York than anywhere.

We're not out to search out people and draw people in and embarrass anybody,

Reem Acra

Try everything on, even gowns that you don't think you'll love. You might be surprised and fall in love with a gown that you weren't drawn to at first.

Isaac Newton

The moon gravitates towards the earth and by the force of gravity is continually drawn off from a rectilinear motion and retained in its orbit.

Bill Plympton

I like to get up at six in the morning, and I draw until sometimes ten at night.

Kurt Vonnegut

I've been drawing all my life, just as a hobby, without really having shows or anything. It's just an agreeable thing to do, and I recommend it to everybody.

This report is completely overshadowed by the storm. We did see a draw in gasoline stocks, and even though it's slight it isn't what this market needed,

The reason we're offering them is to draw out the short-term traders from corresponding Vanguard funds.

We keep a steady stream of these events coming. You can lead one event into others and draw it out.

We need to draw a new constituency and get people to start thinking differently,

There is no Plan B. We will have to go back to the drawing board.