Sketch Quotes

192 Sketch quotes by 164 unique authors

Travel releases spontaneity. You become a godlike creature full or choice, free to visit the stately pleasure domes, make love in the morning, sketch a… — Frances Mayes
A very elementary exercise in psychology, not to be dignified by the name of psycho-analysis, showed me, on looking at my notebook, that the sketch… — Virginia Woolf
If I could only turn the etch-a-sketch of my life upside down. — Lynda Barry
I look at my homely sketch. It doesn't need anything. Even through the river in my eyes I can see that. It isn't perfect and… — Laurie Halse Anderson
My breathing slowed. I shaded her thick chestnut hair resting in a smooth curve against her face, a large bruise blazing across her cheek. I… — Ruta Sepetys
You all watched a sketch about feminism and you didn't even know it because of all the jokes. It's like when Jessica Seinfeld puts spinach… — Tina Fey
THING TO TRY: If you are asked to describe a suspect to a police sketch artist, describe in precise detail, the features of the police… — Demetri Martin
She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her, one of those… — Guy de Maupassant
Simon had drawn three pictures. In the top left corner, like a salutation, was a ghost. The middle had a big sketch of Arnold Schwarzenegger… — Kelley Armstrong
For me, the short story is not a character sketch, a mouse trap, an epiphany, a slice of suburban life. It is the flowering of… — William H. Gass
Where’s your sketch pad?” I asked. … “I gave that up,” Kay said. “I wasn’t very good, so I changed my major.” “To what?” “To… — James Ellroy
Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words... — Yasunari Kawabata
I must continue to follow the path I take now. If I do nothing, if I study nothing, if I cease searching, then, woe is… — Vincent Van Gogh
I noticed you the first week. Not just because of how pretty you are, though of course, that played into it. It was the way… — Tammara Webber
There's an easy method for finding someone when you hear them scream. First get a clean sheet of paper and a sharp pencil. Then sketch… — Daniel Handler
More than anything, the journal wanted. It wanted more than it could hold, more than words could describe, more than diagrams could illustrate. Longing burst… — Maggie Stiefvater
From my sketch files I'll find a pose that shows the emotion behind a particular character's story. — Frank Bruno
After five years' work I allowed myself to speculate on the subject, and drew up some short notes; these I enlarged in 1844 into a… — Charles Darwin
I have an inability to relax. I try to make every day a work day. I get pleasure from work... I try to think of… — Fred Armisen
Working off one genius sketch is not the way great architecture should be made. — Joshua Prince-Ramus
No one will ever be as good as Phil Hartman. He was such an amazing genius, and may be the best sketch performer of all… — Nick Swardson
A couple of friends and I started a sketch comedy group when we were teenagers, just for fun and to start creating stuff. It was… — Reece Thompson
When I was either 7 or 8 years old, I did a sketch every day of my teacher and what she wore. At the end… — Alber Elbaz
To tell you the truth, I always wanted to be a sketch comedian and a comedy actor. — Artie Lange
I was very bad at projecting my voice. I used to do this Gumby Flower Arranging sketch which involved shouting, and I could never do… — Michael Palin

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164 authors contributed a total of 192 Sketch Quotes, led by these top contributors: