Illustrate Quotes
89 quotes by 81 authors
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Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they…
— Louis Leakey
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The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.
— Louis Leakey
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My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as my full-time job.
— Jarrett J. Krosoczka
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The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it will…
— James Dwight Dana
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The dangers that exist are real, but only illustrate the fact that men and women need Christ. The suffering and dying of missionaries advance the…
— David Sills
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Now God comes to thee, not as in the dawning of the day, not as in the bud of the spring, but as the sun…
— John Donne
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What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.
— Confucius
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Most tasks and tests will demand recall of isolated pieces of information, and I will not have to show how concepts and ideas are related…
— Joseph Barrell
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To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time…
— Florenz Ziegfeld
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I guess I kinda lost control, because in the middle of the play I ran up and lit the evil puppet villain on fire. No,…
— Jack Handey
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Often you will find the opposite situation. The author seems to have interesting ideas, but he is not able to illustrate them with decent examples.…
— Mark Dvoretsky
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How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I had perused, and…
— Nikola Tesla
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If you can't illustrate 'it', 'it' doens't belong in Physics as a noun! You can't put an article in front. You can't put a verb…
— Bill Gaede
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In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the vivid and particular:…
— William Strunk, Jr.
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Please join me in applauding the ESA - European Space Agency’s historic efforts with the Rosetta Mission and landing a spacecraft on rotating comet. It…
— Stephen Hawking
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A method of painting is a natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is just…
— Jackson Pollock
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A television advertisement must illustrate the scientific method to substantiate any claim.... That is why stains are lifted, ring-around-the-collar is removed, paper towels become soaked,…
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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To illustrate the vain conceit that the universe must be somehow pre-ordained for us, because we are so well-suited to live in it, he [Douglas…
— Richard Dawkins
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Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease.
— John Milton
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Museums, museums, object-lessons rigged out to illustrate the unsound theories of archaeologists, crazy attempts to co-ordinate and get into a fixed order that which has…
— D. H. Lawrence
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