Draw Quotes - page 2

I've always been drawn to tormented people full of contradictions. (Antonio Tabucchi)
You discover how confounding the world is when you try to draw it. You look at a car, and you try to see its car-ness, and you're like an immigrant to your own world. You don't have to travel to encounter weirdness. You wake up to it. View quote
Shaun Tan
In our own time it has been seen... that simple children, roughly brought up in the wilderness, have begun to draw by themselves, impelled by their own natural genius, instructed solely by the example of these beautiful paintings and sculptures of Nature. View quote
Giorgio Vasari
The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect. View quote
Carson McCullers
Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
I am going to seek a great purpose, draw the curtain, the farce is played. View quote
François Rabelais
To further promote anti-corruption efforts, we need to insist on the successful experiences gained through the Party's long-term anti-corruption practice. We need to actively draw on effective practices conducted by foreign countries around the world, and our own valuable heritage. View quote
Xi Jinping
Conditions to the north of us, in the Voronezh and Steppe Fronts zone of action, and our offensive on Kharkov demands that we not lose time and we commit all forces so that we can draw off as many divisions as possible from Kharkov. And even if we do not draw them off, at least we will not give Manstein the ability to take any of his units from our part of the front. If we attract one or two German tank divisions - it will be the best contribution to the defeat of the enemy in the south. View quote
Aleksandr Vasilevsky
Tree at my window, window tree, My sash is lowered when night comes on But let there never be curtain drawn Between you and me. View quote
Robert Frost
Sir, he Bolingbroke was a scoundrel and a coward a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality a coward, because he had not resolution to fire it off himself, but left half a crown to a beggarly Scotsman to draw the trigger at his death. View quote
Samuel Johnson
Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl? (Elizabeth Barrett Browning)
A flattering painter, who made it his care To draw men as they ought to be, not as they are. View quote
Oliver Goldsmith
It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion. View quote
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
No cord nor cable can so forcibly draw, or hold so fast, as love can do with a twined thread. View quote
Robert Burton
When we drop fear, we can draw nearer to people, we can draw nearer to the earth, we can draw nearer to all the heavenly creatures that surround us. View quote
Bell hooks
All writers have roots they draw from - travel, work, family. My roots are in science and it is fertile ground for fiction. View quote
Alan Lightman
I can only draw what I see. View quote
Claude Monet
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye, and you will be drawn toward it. View quote
Napoleon Hill
I like science and I love gym. Oh, and I like art, but I'm really bad at it. I'm just a terrible drawer. I can't draw a circle. Even with a ruler, I can't draw a straight line. View quote
Daniel Radcliffe
She was a phantom of delight When first she gleamed upon my sight, A lovely apparition, sent To be a moment's ornament Her eyes as stars of twilight fair, Like twilights too her dusky hair, But all things else about her drawn From May-time and the cheerful dawn. View quote
William Wordsworth
It is all well and good to copy what one sees, but it is much better to draw only what remains in one's memory. This is a transformation in which imagination and memory collaborate. (Edgar Degas)
The artist does not draw what he sees, but what he has to make others see. View quote
Edgar Degas
Geometry is of much assistance in architecture, and in particular it teaches us the use of the rule and compasses, by which especially we acquire readiness in making plans for buildings in their grounds, and rightly apply the square, the level, and the plummet. By means of optics the light in buildings can be drawn from fixed quarters of the sky. Difficult questions involving symmetry are solved by means of geometrical theories and methods. View quote
Vitruvius
My contribution to the world is my ability to draw. I will draw as much as I can for as many people as I can for as long as I can. View quote
Keith Haring
The petitioner's problem is to avoid Scylla without being drawn into Charybdis. View quote
Robert H. Jackson