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2062 Draws quotes by 1515 unique authors

What harm cause not those huge draughts or pictures which wanton youth with chalk or coals draw in each passage, wall or stairs of our… — Michel de Montaigne
I love TV now, and 'Modern Family,' but what draws me back to theater is that initial instinct of wanting to be a theater actor.… — Jesse Tyler Ferguson
Light boats sail swift, though greater hulks draw deep. — William Shakespeare
As life draws nearer to its end, I feel more and more clearly that it will not matter in the least, at the last day,… — Lewis Carroll
The air that people breathe in many Chinese cities has become dangerously polluted. Their food supply is subject to constant contamination scandals. Now it appears… — James Fallows
A man, groundly learned already, may take much profit himself in using by epitome to draw other men’s works, for his own memory sake, into… — Roger Ascham
It is not often that nations learn from the past,even rarer that they draw the correct conclusions from it. — Henry A. Kissinger
All my life, to this day, the memory of my childhood remains grim and incoherent. If I close my eyes and think back, I see… — Burgess Meredith
To be fond of learning is to draw close to wisdom. To practice with vigor is to draw close to benevolence. To know the sense… — Confucius
A house may draw visitors, but it is the possessor alone that can detain them. — Charles Caleb Colton
Nature is pretty good at networks, self-organizing systems. By contrast, social systems are top-down and hierarchical, from which we draw the basic assumption that organization… — Nicholas Negroponte
What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has not put there… — Andre Gide
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree. We are inclined to… — Samuel Johnson
The painter who draws by practise and judgment of the eye without the use of reason is like the mirror which reproduces within itself all… — Leonardo da Vinci
Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not… — Euripides
Truth is a point, the subtlest and finest; harder than adamant; never to be broken, worn away, or blunted. Its only bad quality is, that… — Walter Savage Landor
The streets and alleys of the ward were notoriously filthy, and the contractors habitually neglected them, not failing, however, to draw their regular payments from… — Ray Stannard Baker
I like to draw late at night when the house is quiet. — Mary Engelbreit
Art and ideology often interact on each other; but the plain fact is that both spring from a common source. Both draw on human experience… — Kenneth Tynan
I spent my 20s working in patient care at a large university hospital, an experience that has informed all my work and has given me… — Lois McMaster Bujold
We do not intend to part from the Americans and we do not intend to be satellites. I am sure they do not want us… — Harold MacMillan
It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary. It… — Hippocrates
Conducting" is when you draw "designs" in the nowhere-with a stick, or with your hands-which are interpreted as "instructional messages" by guys wearing bow ties… — Frank Zappa
Broadway shows in New York draw two times the attendance of all New York sports teams put together. — John Lahr
Baseball is meant to be a contemplative game. They play music to draw young people to the game. If young people can't come to the… — W. P. Kinsella

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