Top 1200 Drawing The Line Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

People in a democracy should be satisfied with drawing the Government's attention to a mistake, if any.

In general, the straight line of a joke sets up a premise, an expectation. Then the funny ending - the punch line - in a sense contradicts the original assumption by refusing to follow what had seemed a reasonable train of thought. Many jokes involve that simple matter of leaping outside what had appeared to be the rules of the game at the moment.

Tell the other rangers, the ambassadors, everyone is this army of light. Babylon 5 stands with you. Tell them, tell them that from this place with will deliver notice to the parliaments of conquerors that a line has been drawn against the darkness and we will hold that line no matter the cost.

Each drawing that I've done, I have found. Meaning, I see a plant I want to draw.

My own movement of thought is not meant to be a straight point-to-point, linear line of march, but horizontal exploration from one area of interest to another. There is no ultimate destination - no finish line to cross, no final conclusion to be reached. It's the way I feel about dancing - you move around a lot, not to get somewhere, but to be somewhere in time.

When I played, I would never, ever try to run Reggie Miller off the line because I knew Reggie. If I ran at him, and I was trying to run him off the line, I was going to get kicked.

You can eliminate color and still have a painting that works, but you must have drawing, value and design.

Knowledge has its boundary line, where it abuts on ignorance; on the outside of that boundary line are ignorance and miracles; on the inside of it are science and no miracles.

You can't wait for someone to give you a show. That can't be the first time you're writing and drawing a character.

I think when you're an actor and you're drawing on your emotions all the time, you need to be quite steady.

My wife will go, 'You know, you're drawing a shoe right now.' I do that all the time.

Because we are saturated with life, because we are human, our strongest motive is life, humanity; and the stronger the motive back of the line the stronger, and therefore more beautiful, the line will be.

For me, the '80s were like the drawing by Botticelli of the nine rings of hell.

For the artist, drawing is discovery. And that is not just a slick phrase; it is quite literally true.

If the gag is complicated, you spend more time thinking about the way you’re drawing it.

We live in capitalism, and capitalism is defined by the production line, and the production line is defined by specificity. If you see yourself as an artist, which I do, then you can't be limited by that. You can't let somebody tell you, 'Well, you can only draw this kind of picture or write that kind of book.'

There's never been a moment where I sat down at my drawing board and thought, 'I'm a pro!'

I have been drawing and creating visual works my entire life, as long as I can remember.

...deficit consumption is, in effect, drawing down on the capital entitlements of future generations

I meet Susan [Saradon], and she was amazing. We sit down to go through the script [Thelma & Louise]. I swear, I think it was page one - she says, "So my first line, I don't think we need that line. Or we could put it on page two. Cut this ..." And I was just like ... My jaw was to the ground.

My drawing for women is really curvy. My drawings for men are actually quite angular.

I was about two years old when I first started drawing recognizable characters.

All of the collections I've done have been so much fun. The more knowledge and the more education I can get the better the line is. It's something I never went to school for, so the more knowledge I get, the more advanced the line can be.

When I hear my teacher say, 'Line up with your partner,' I run to line up and grab my partner and I tell him to walk faster so we could dance faster. I love to dance.

Not all are starting from the same line; however, the finishing line is certainly the same. We all have to show how much money our films make or how many awards we win or what critical acclaim and commercial success our films have.

I think that when we start thought-policing people and idea-policing people, then that's crossing a line. And I think, you know, everybody's so afraid of this imaginary line of thought police that they forget their own personal safety.

I think the best thing I learned from drawing comics is that it's a great exercise in concision.

In playoffs, it's so emotional and the tension's really high and guys are laying everything on the line. And when you do that, things get chippy and guys are playing aggressively, and I think it just comes out in the playoffs a little more. When you know what's on the line and what you're expected to do, it just comes out.

We felt responsible for each other. The D-line's got to take care of that line of scrimmage, (the linebackers) have got to clean up, and the safeties and DBs take care of that back end. We felt we're a brotherhood and we just had to get it done.

Drawing Lavi’s smile eases me precisely because he has such a sad fate.

The big dividing line is not and has never been between those who advocate more or less militant forms of resistance, or between mainstream and grassroots activists. The dividing line is between those who do something and those who do nothing.

Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

The harness of waterfalls is the most economical method known for drawing energy from the sun.

If I had girls to educate I would not have them learn both music and drawing.

Whether we are winning, losing or drawing, we have to be ready to adapt and not sink into a comfort zone.

I didnt grow up drawing runway models and deciding what they should wear.

Drawing is a kind of hypnotism: one looks in such a way at the model, that he comes and takes a seat on the paper.

Drawing need not be the bones of art, but skill must always be the skeleton of accomplishment.

Drawing Dead is a brilliant noir from one of Australia's most exciting new novelists.

Drawing architecture is a "schizoid" act: it involves reducing the world to a piece of paper.

When the inventor of the drawing board messed things up, what did he go back to?

When I'm painting and drawing I only do people. Acting is obviously portraiture - and writing is as well.

Soldiers are citizens of death's grey land, drawing no dividend from time's tomorrows.

For me, I walk a line of fame and infamy. I walk the line of celebrity and non-celebrity.

My material never comes out verbatim every time. I always tweak in a line, or tweak away a line, gain a couple tags or lose a couple tags. The timing is always off.

What reaches an audience is honesty. If you're saying something truthful that's supposed to be a funny line, it's going to be funny. And if it's supposed to be a serious line, it's going to be serious. But, I don't think there's a distinction between how you play drama or comedy, if it's based in the truth.

A good advertisement is one which sells the product without drawing attention to itself.

When I was in high school, I thought I might be an artist. I was very good at drawing and painting.

When I retire I'm gonna bet on Wolves drawing every game. I'll be a multi-millionaire!

I write the last line, and then I write the line before that. I find myself writing backwards for a while, until I have a solid sense of how that ending sounds and feels. You have to know what your voice sounds like at the end of the story, because it tells you how to sound when you begin.

But the strong base and building of my love is as the very centre of the earth, drawing all things to it.

I've always loved fashion design. I love drawing and creating looks and styling.

Drawing Is An Escape From All The Unecessary Things In Life That Get In The Way Of Being Free

It was the building from the drawing in my brain. And if you don’t think that’s a weird sentence, maybe you should reread it.

I usually use quick sketches that I accumulated from the figure drawing classes I once instructed.

The old line 'You deserve someone better than me' in this case was not just an old line. She deserved someone who would love her and take care of her and he knew he never would.

I've never done anything that I felt was crossing the line for me. But everybody has to make that decision individually. Like, I've never shot heroin to play a heroin addict. I've never turned a trick to play a prostitute. Whatever. You draw the line where you feel it could be harmful.

The writing for me is hard work and I always look forward to drawing the pictures.

There's no way I would have got to see so much of the world, with my humble background, without modelling. We were penniless and hungry for most of my youth. I washed the sheets in the bathtub in my bedroom and hung them out of the window on the clothes line, which in winter was difficult as the sheets would freeze and get stuck to the line.

[Shoji] Hamada seldom drew an exact drawing of a pot that he was going to make.