Famous Quotes & Sayings

Taryn Simon

I do seem to try to make things harder and harder for myself. In some perverse way, obstacles interest me and I'm drawn to projects that end up being incredibly laborious.

Tom Rachman

My intent was to gain experience for fiction I eventually hoped to write. But there's no question I was drawn in by the hope that journalism would be a creative, thrilling environment.

Clyde Tombaugh

The planets are never the same twice, they're always different, so they could compare the markings I had drawn with their current photographs and they knew that I was drawing what I was really seeing and it wasn't copied from somewhere.

On a marketing level it's been a real drawback for the NBA to have all these freshmen and high school players in the league.

Ok That's it, Talking Poo is where I draw the line.

E. B. White

She would write 8 or 10 words, then draw her gun and shoot them down.

She leads because she's always in a good mood. She's always upbeat and positive and she's fun to be around so people are naturally drawn to her.

John Dryden

She knows her man, and when you rant or swear, / Can draw you to her with a single hair.

She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, can draw you to her with a single hair

We're happy that it's over. We're happy that it has drawn to a close.

This proposal here will send us back to the drawing board.

Auguste Rodin

My drawings are the result of my sculpture.

Gerald Scarfe

I just recently did a film with Disney, and they put the drawings straight on the computer. And it's all painted on the computer now and not by hand anymore.

We ran into problems getting the drawings and permitting together. A lot of the people involved with the project had so much work on their hands, on top of this.

Rebecca Jones

We've seen bookshelves, drawers and open shelving in the islands.

John Krasinski

The real drawback when you write with a partner is that where you want it to go and where they want it to go is similar, but not exactly lined up, and that's where it's going to lead you into trouble.

There is a line to be drawn here. We should all draw it together in terms of personal intrusion of our loved ones.

There is a level of mistrust. The lack of a consolidated effort by HB-LED manufacturers with OEMs has been a hallmark and a drawback for the HB-LED industry.

When I'm in good shape, I have more resources to draw from. It's nice to have that strength.

She's the focal point. She draws a lot of attention. But she needs to look to herself as a focal point. Her numbers are starting to come back up.

Christo

We don't sell technical drawings except when they are incorporated into a drawing or a collage.

Clint Eastwood

'Unforgiven' is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, 'This is great, but I'd like to do this when I'm older.' So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out.

Bill Cosby

Karl Malden was a good friend of mine, and he said, 'You draw the people to you,' and I guess that's what I do.

Nancy Gibbs

The Reverend Jeremiah Wright would baptize Obama, perform his marriage to Michelle LaVaughn Robinson, baptize their daughters, and draw him into the raucous, restless family of faith that Obama had never known before.

Natalie Imbruglia

I wasn't naturally drawn to fashion when I was younger but with my work I'm so exposed to what's out there that I'm hoping my style has become a little more sophisticated.

Freddy Rodriguez

No, there isn't a particular type of genre that I'm drawn to. I'm more drawn to the possibility of creating different characters, or being able to go from one genre to the other and to show that I could do it, that I could be good at it.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

'No Sweetness Here' is the kind of old-fashioned social realism I have always been drawn to in fiction, and it does what I think all good literature should: It entertains you.

Cate Blanchett

We keep making the same mistakes as a species, and you can usually draw it back to the fact that we are all terrified of dying. We also all think that we are going to escape it until we get to 65!

Drawings don't have a point. Cartoons, you want to have an opinion; you want them to express a viewpoint.

Banksy

I am unable to comment on who may or may not be Banksy, but anyone described as being 'good at drawing' doesn't sound like Banksy to me.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

We made drawings the size of a whole quarter of a room ceiling, which we would then send on to the model makers. I did this every day for two years. Even now I can draw cartouches with my eyes closed.

I'm quite a rational person, but I'm drawn to the irrational. I love coincidences, and I like to question that in fiction: 'Is this random, or is there something working underneath?'

Alex Gibney

I'm not sure why, but I seem to be drawn to stories about abuses of power. But I'm also drawn, not so much to victims' stories, as stories that tend to show how power works. Because if you don't understand the criminals, you can't figure out how to stop the crimes.