[With theater] you draw the audience into the room as best you can, and in film, you can draw them into the… — Kenneth Lonergan Copy Share Image
Anti-Semitism is a horrible disease from which nobody is immune, and it has a kind of evil fascination that makes an enlightened… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
But whereas a puppy will cringe away or roll on its back, groveling, a little boy may cover his shyness with nonchalance,… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
You have to attack the source of your enemy’s strength. In America’s case, that’s not Osama or Saddam or anyone else. The… — Greg Mortenson Copy Share Image
Many people find it hard to understand what it is about a mountain that draws men and women to risk their lives… — Bear Grylls Copy Share Image
Some people are trapped by the belief that love comes in finite quantities, and that our kind of love exhausts the supply… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
In order for architecture to experience its ongoing evolution as a language, there has to be a lot of adjusted copies between… — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
The relationship to one's fellow man is the relationship of prayer, the relationship to oneself is the relationship of striving; it is… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
I have often said that a person who wishes to begin a good life should be like one who draws a circle.… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
Symphony is the ability to see the big picture, connect the dots, combine disparate things into something new. Visual artists in particular… — Daniel H. Pink Copy Share Image
The average college graduate's proficient literacy in English [the ability to read lengthy, complex texts and draw complicated inferences] has declined from… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
INVISIBLE BOY And here we see the invisible boy In his lovely invisible house, Feeding a piece of invisible cheese To a… — Shel Silverstein Copy Share Image
Why does it have to be politics? Is there a dynamism to that world and a theoretical capacity to do things that… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
Upon occasion we should go as far as intoxication… Drink washes cares away, stirs the mind from its lowest depths… But in… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
When I sit down to write a book, I do not say to myself, 'I am going to produce a work of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
a good writer should draw the reader in by starting in the middle of the story with a hook, then go back… — Roland Smith Copy Share Image
Positive energy is your priceless life force. Protect it. Don't allow people to draw from your reserves; select friends who recharge your… — Chalene Johnson Copy Share Image
What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The best system of education is that which draws its chief support from the voluntary effort of the community, from the individual… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
I think writers can get too attached to these worlds they create, these characters they make real, so that, instead of ending… — Stephen Graham Jones Copy Share Image
John von Neumann draws attention to what seemed to him a contrast. He remarked that for simple mechanisms, it is often easier… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
When our priorities are out of order, we lose power. It takes personal revelation every day to help us prioritize and keep… — Julie B. Beck Copy Share Image
China can draw on a talent pool of 1.3 billion people, but the United States can draw on a talent pool of… — Lee Kuan Yew Copy Share Image
Do not be influenced by the importance of the writer, and whether his learning be great or small, but let the love… — Thomas a Kempis Copy Share Image
No scratch the word "career". Careers are people who wish to advance. I only want to survive, draw a paycheck. This is… — Emily Giffin Copy Share Image
Self-love, the spring of motion, acts the soul; Reason's comparing balance rules the whole. Man, but for that no action could attend,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
Everything in life, is a question of drawing a life, John, and you have to decide for yourself where to draw it.… — John Berger Copy Share Image
It's easier to write about heartbreak after you've had your heart broken. You have more material to draw from, you can extrapolate… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
The maxims of Christian life, which should draw upon the truths of the Gospel, are always partially symbolic of the mind and… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
We do not draw people to Christ by loudly discrediting what they believe, by telling them how wrong they are and how… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
I quickly realized that this medium had a lot to offer someone like me. To do Disney-quality hand-drawn cartoons, you have to… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
Draw the art you want to see, start the business you want to run, play the music you want to hear, write… — Austin Kleon Copy Share Image
On Saturday morning, one of the two teams still unbeaten in the Premiership occupied a modest seventh place. It is an illustration… — Pete Gill Copy Share Image
You have a freckle here," he whispered, sweeping his tongue over a spot just under my jaw. "It drives me crazy every… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
Every poet has a certain amount of "stuff." That's what you draw from for imagery. The more stuff you know well, not… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
'My sheep hear My voice' (Jn. 10:14). This is just another way of saying, 'They obey my words and keep My commandments.'… — Dorotheus of Gaza Copy Share Image
How complicated can ice cream flavors be? How much can you put in there? I mean, when the flavor's something like banana… — Marc Maron Copy Share Image
There were four million people in the American Colonies and we had Jefferson and Franklin. Now we have over 200 million and… — Mort Sahl Copy Share Image
A good writer refuses to be socialized. He insists on his own version of things, his own consciousness. And by doing so… — Bill Barich Copy Share Image
I have no idea what my draw is for science fiction. I hope they come to me because they like complicated women.… — Sonya Walger Copy Share Image