Sketched Quotes
19 quotes by 19 authors
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One of the grandest figures that ever frequented Eastern Yorkshire was William Smith, the distinguished Father of English Geology. My boyish reminiscence of the old…
— William Crawford Williamson
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If the image was sketched onto the canvas and spontaneously drawn, colour would often be restrained and unfree... The most important and the most difficult…
— Asger Jorn
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Ideally, I'd like every issue to include a diverse group of stories that meet the qualifications sketched above, but covering a wide range of specific…
— Stanley Schmidt
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I've met and sketched most of the great athletes from the past five decades and their movement, grace and energy have kept me captivated over…
— LeRoy Neiman
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You know, a landscape painter's day is delightful. You get up early, at three o'clock in the morning, before sunrise; you go and sit under…
— Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot
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Rohini Mohan read. While she did, I sketched her. She writes with such beauty and violence, and it seemed like the best way to listen…
— Molly Crabapple
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Before the world was made, when it was only darkness and mist and waters, God was well aware of Lake Wobegon, my family, our house,…
— Garrison Keillor
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I got a custom-made silk dress from a Chinese tailor for really cheap. I sketched it out on a piece of paper, and they took…
— Alicia Sacramone
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I left school at 16 and my mother got me a job as a trainee wine taster. But one day I followed some girls into…
— Malcolm Mclaren
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The important thing to understand about American history, wrote Mr. Ibis, in his leather-bound journal, is that it is fictional, a charcoal-sketched simplicity for the…
— Neil Gaiman
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Heads in the Women's Ward On pillow after pillow lies The wild white hair and staring eyes; Jaws stand open; necks are stretched With every…
— Philip Larkin
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I had a mind to make a body of more or less connected legend, ranging from the large and cosmogonic, to the level of romantic…
— J.R.R. Tolkien
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Switters was actually quite fond of Seattle's weather, and not merely because of it's ambivalence. He liked it's subtle, muted qualities and the landscape that…
— Tom Robbins
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Like I've been sketched by an amateur artist: if you don't look too closely, it's all right, but start focusing and all the smudges and…
— Lauren Oliver
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Something about first love defies duplication. Before it, your heart is blank. Unwritten. After, the walls are left inscribed and graffitied. When it ends, no…
— Tammara Webber
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There comes an hour when protest no longer suffices; after philosophy there must be action; the strong hand finishes what the idea has sketched.
— Victor Hugo
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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to…
— Ellen Burstyn
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The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called life, expects only training as sketched above, will be…
— Edsger Dijkstra
Who Wrote These Sketched Quotes
19 authors contributed a total of 19 Sketched Quotes as follows: