Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meg Wolitzer

I've always been drawn to writing for young readers. The books that I read growing up remain in my mind very strongly.

I've always been drawn to Texas. I just want to go on the visit, see what they're trying to do. Everything I've heard from people is that they like Austin.

Megan Boone

I've always been sort of drawn to storytelling, and I was always very playful growing up.

Somewhere you draw a line in the sand ... unless you have an unspoken policy to keep moving it.

Sathya Baba

Teachers are reservoirs from which, through the process of education, students draw the water of life.

Jason O'Mara

Sometimes the things that scare me are the things I'm drawn to: moving to London, L.A., New York; marrying, having a kid. In order to live a full life, sometimes you have to do things that scare you.

Jodi Picoult

It was a little like a scar on a polished wooden table--you'd try to see the rest of the gleaming surface, but your eyes and your fingers would be drawn to the pitted part, the one thing that kept it from being perfect.

These associations will draw together a global network of enforcement agencies, working together for the greater good of the software industry.

The size of the distillate draw wasn't spectacular but is disconcerting given that we are approaching the heating season. Heating oil is ascendant right now, while interest in gasoline wanes.

Cress Williams

As a kid, you just like anything fanciful that you're into, but as an adult, I really love that kind of place where the super hero mythos meets life, where it has that human story; that's what I think I was really drawn to when I started getting into the X-Men.

Automakers' extremely generous incentives in recent weeks have simply drawn forward industry demand.

Ballgame? What a ballgame. We didn't draw it up like that, but we will take this. A great win for us, and it has been one thing after another all season long. It has been a grind-it-out kind of season for us, and we'll take whatever comes next.

Goran Persson

A workplace safety plan is naturally something that should be drawn up, that is completely clear, but I didn't have the expertise to foresee that this sort of thing had to be done.

Mike Lowell

As long as we don't have revenues other teams do, and unless we're drawing 40,000 a game, we're going to have a fixed payroll.

As long as they're extending the contract, I think that's a signal there will be no slowdown. Perhaps there will be a very long drawn out negotiating process that will give us a lot of gray hair.

Jeff Tedford

That's not the way you draw it on the board.

Virender Sehwag

We will be more happy if result oriented wickets are prepared because playing a drawn test match is not good for the game.

What really happened at the meeting was that Netscape was trying to draw a line around its market and resisted Microsoft to come into that marketplace.

Jerry Jones

We want to play football. We have an obligation to everyone, particularly our fans. My gut is we're going to come up with something, but it's still up in the air. It's going to be long and drawn out and tough.

We want to draw from the wealth of talent in this area.

We just felt like what we were doing would be appreciated by someone else. We've enjoyed it, but it's nice to pass it on and not just put it away in a drawer somewhere.

It would draw everything else in the area.

Danny Coyne

The way I see it, everyone has to go through me anyway, so it doesn't matter what order that happens in. I don't care. Draws never seem to go my way anyway, so it doesn't really matter.

The water table is so low. The smaller ones are drying up as the plants come to life and start to draw down the water. That's not good.

I've never seen him draw a line where a line shouldn't be.

Within five minutes, he was in excruciating pain, drawing his knees up.

We've been there and have come up short in the final. The draw is crucial. There are some late nights and that's what we've been in. There's no excuses, but it's nice sleeping when it's night time and not sleeping until 11 a.m. and trying to play at 3 p.m..

Francois Beauchemin

We weren't moving our feet and playing on our skates. When you do that you draw too many penalties.

Jon Krakauer

There's something about being afraid, about being small, about enforced humility that draws me to climbing.

There's just no place to hide here. Everyone's thinking was to stay away from Bellaire and if we had to do it again, I would still take the same draw we had tonight.

The trend will be a stronger yen through to the end of this month. Strong stocks are drawing flows of overseas money into Japanese assets.

Dag Hammarskjold

The UN is not just a product of do-gooders. It is harshly real. The day will come when men will see the U.N. and what it means clearly. Everything will be all right -- you know when? When people, just people, stop thinking of the United Nations as a weird Picasso abstraction, and see it as a drawing they made themselves.

I smiled from ear to ear when I saw him the first day of school this year. He'd grown about four inches. He's really improved tremendously. He's got a great work ethic. He's just a monster inside. He draws a lot of fouls. He draws a lot of attention. He's a pleasant surprise this year.