Famous Quotes & Sayings

Adrian McKinty

Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists.

Adam Gopnik

Lose your schematic conventions by finding some surprising symbol or shape in the welter of shades, and draw that.

We're excited to have a full venue this year. We're drawing people from all over the state and Idaho.

Tite Kubo

I have three assistants, but there isn't a head assistant. All the important drawings I do myself. Every single character is also done by me.

I thought we got a good look too. We will go back to the drawing board. We're really not just going to focus on this. We will focus on the things that we've done to be able to be better and go into the NCAA tournament with a lot of confidence.

Dom Capers

I think what they're doing is good for the game. They're drawing a lot of attention. They haven't really been challenged.

We are just taking it one pitch at a time, one inning at a time. We are actually drawing closer.

Chris Cooper

We're drawing up a plan that will fix it. But for now, we're staying on top of it with sand and salt.

Conan O'Brien

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fell asleep during Obama's speech. She woke up with the other justices drawing a gavel on her face.

Gary Larson

I keep thinking someone's gonna show up and say, 'There's been a big mistake. The guy next door is supposed to be drawing the cartoon. Here's your shovel.'

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.

Aaron Koblin

I grew up with the idea of the cyborg and the robot, but at the same time I felt this intense disconnection between the things I was engaged with and inspired by in terms of fun and play. It seemed like paintings and drawings were so static.

Keven Mealamu

We have got to go back to the drawing board.

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.

Claude Monet

I never draw except with brush and paint...

I don't know where I got the idea for 'The Great Thumbprint Drawing Book'; I just told my brain to think of a book, and it did.

Orison Swett Marden

Our visions are the plans of the possible life structure, but they will end in plans if we do not follow them up with a vigorous effort to make them real, just as the architect's plans will end in his drawings if they are not followed up and made real by the builder.

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.

We were going forward and took two steps back. We've got to regroup. We're going to watch the tape of the Madison game tomorrow and go back to the drawing board.

We had hoped that the people of Florida would have an opportunity to speak on this question, whether they want self-interested politicians drawing their own districts. We just have to go back to the drawing board.

NBC is not drawing as many people from other networks the way the Winter Olympics usually does.

Elizabeth Kenny

One of the puppets is a drawing on my thumb. That is Handsome Percy.

We know that they have had the drawings for P-2 centrifuge and they've publicized that.

Byron Scott

We'll go back to the drawing board. We had different scenarios drawn up before we got Steven, so we'll go to plan B.

Our heavy industries are feeling this acutely this winter as tightness in supplies hit gas prices. This is something we'll want to learn from when drawing up our proposals.

Danny Huston

I loved painting and drawing for many reasons. One of them was that all it really required was me, a pencil and a pad. It was something I was passionate about, and still am.

Danny Elfman

Doing Tim's film is always going to be the most pleasure. Let me just put it that way. So, without drawing favorites one way or the other, getting back with him and doing Mars Attacks! was certainly a special treat.

Daniel Day-Lewis

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

Daniel Clowes

I actually start drawing things. Usually they're abandoned before I commit too much time and effort.

Dave McKean

Sometimes the things I learn making paintings or drawings - composition, colour, expressionism, texture - can directly influence the making of a film. Sometimes it's great that they are different, and simply taking a break from one medium to spend time with another, recharges the batteries and I feel refreshed.

Dave Eggers

Here is a drawing of a stapler:

Anthony Browne

The first things I remember drawing were battles - big sheets of paper covered in terrible scenes of carnage - though when you looked closely, there were little jokes and speech bubbles and odd things going on in the background.

A very faithful drawing may actually tell us more about the model but despite the promptings of our critical intelligence it will never have the irrational power of the photograph to bear away our faith.