Top 1200 Drawing The Line Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

I'll sing over some chords, searching, what does [the music] conjure up, where's the melody taking you? I deliberate over the lyrics, I really do. I'll come up with one line in a day, and then it might be a couple of days before I come up with the rhyming line. It's never been easy for me.

Then it was snack time, right in the middle of mass. Right out of nowhere, the priest would look down and say, 'Let's have some yum yums!' You would get in line - you would jump in the line - and you would go up and get the crouton O'Christ.

But it seems that the wind is setting East, and the withering of all Woods may be drawing near.

I started to write the song. And I was in Gladewater, Texas, one night with Carl Perkins and I said, I've got a good idea for a song. And I sang him the first verse that I had written, and I said it's called "Because You're Mine." And he said, "I Walk The Line" is a better title, so I changed it to "I Walk The Line."

One night a friend lent me a book of short stories by Franz Kafka. I went back to the pension where I was staying and began to read The Metamorphosis. The first line almost knocked me off the bed. I was so surprised. The first line reads, “As Gregor Samsa awoke that morning from uneasy dreams, he found himself transformed in his bed into a gigantic insect. . . .” When I read the line I thought to myself that I didn’t know anyone was allowed to write things like that. If I had known, I would have started writing a long time ago. So I immediately started writing short stories.

It wasn't until I discovered comics that I actually began to approach drawing as a possible career.

When I'm constructing a poem, I'm trying to write one good line after another. One solid line after another. You know a lot of the lines - some hold up better as lines than others. But I'm not thinking of just writing a paragraph and then chopping it up.

England is obsessed with where you came from, and they are determined to keep you in that place, be it in a drawing room or in the gutter.

When I was a kid, I never felt that what I was drawing really represented me; it was just something I enjoyed.

The tongue, the Chinese say, is like a sharp knife: it kills without drawing blood.

Philosophers who pay for their semantics by drawing checks on Darwin are in debt way over their heads.

I love hanging and drawing and quartering Every bit as well as war and slaughtering.

I did photography, painting, and drawing, but I prefer sculpture. I like it because it's very physical.

The biggest lesson I've learned about drawing is that it takes time. Which is really annoying.

A cool tattoo design is any drawing that would also look good saggy.

Mr Edison gave America just what was needed at that moment in history. They say that when people think of me, they think of my assembly line. Mr. Edison, you built an assembly line which brought together the genius of invention, science and industry.

When an artist or student draws a nude figure with painstaking care, the result is drawing, and not emotion.

Even if you're drawing a cartoon and exaggerating, you want to capture something true about the person.

Real development is not leaving things behind, as on a road, but drawing life from them, as from a root.

You have me like a drawing, erased, coloured in, untitled, signed by your tongue.

Bad is not an absolute, but a relative term. Ask the robber who used the cash he stole to feed his infant; the rapist who was sexually abused as a child; the kidnapper who truly believed he was saving a life. And just because you break the law doesn't mean you have intentionally crossed the line into evil. Sometimes the line creeps up on you, and before you know it, you're standing on the other side.

We cannot take one step in geology without drawing upon the fathomless stores of by-gone time.

I found that the only thing I felt passionate about drawing were words.

When you are older, you realise that everything else is just nothing compared to painting and drawing.

Originality depends only on the character of the drawing and the vision peculiar to each artist.

I was 11 when I was first introduced to live drawing classes and going to art school.

The thing that's depressing is teaching graduate students today and discovering that they don't know simple elemental facts of grammar. They really do not know how to scan a line; they've never been taught to scan a line. Many of them don't know the difference between 'lie' and 'lay,' let alone 'its' and 'it's.' And they're in graduate school!

What mothers do - they act with love, at least good mothers do! They have a spirit of strong, fierce, protective energy - the way a mother would put her life on the line for her children - we need to put our life on the line for each other.

One year, my good deed started with deciding to give all my friends makeup from a cruelty-free cosmetics line that I love. I did this with the hope that they would love it as much as I do and end up switching their makeup over to that cruelty-free line forever.

My idea of Heaven is to wake up, have a good breakfast, and spend the rest of the day drawing.

If tone is granted to be subjected to control, why not line also, which has equal emotional significance? And if line, why not shapes and forms? And if shapes and forms, why not allow elision or emphasis of detail? And if all these things are allowed, what becomes of the record of actuality ?... Sunk without a trace!

My dad said, 'Go to college and take whatever you want.' So, I went to the University of Miami. When I got up to the line at registration, I saw that you had to take math and history. I said, 'There's no way I'm taking math and history.' And right next to it was the line for the drama department.

As the Industrial Age is drawing to a close, I think that we're witnessing the dawn of the era of biological design.

The third line of cinema today is neither art nor commercial but categorized as good and bad cinema. I think two films - 'Main, Meri patni aur Who' and 'Main Madhuri Dixit Banna Chahti Hoon' were the base films for this new line of cinema.

When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.

Pampering my skin with moisturiser is very important, but so is drawing. I like sport, but I have to be really interested in it.

For those who have come here illegally, they might have a transition time to allow them to set their affairs in order. And then go back home and get in line with everybody else. And if they get in line and they apply to become a citizen and get a green card, they will be treated like everybody else.

It is my entire visual art practice: I eat, sleep, think, write about and do drawing.

I've always called myself a journalist who happens to draw. If I wasn't drawing cartoons, I'd be writing stories.

There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.

For me, drawing is a question of death and life. Every day I draw, I write, I do something.

I really wish Mike and Joe would stop drawing on me while I'm sleeping.

I started drawing a mouse because it was my father's nickname for my mother. And mice are very expressive.

Drawing is a way for me to articulate things inside myself that I can't otherwise grasp.

When you're drawing from observation and experience, whether you intend to or not, you'll create a more relatable cartoon.

Prayer is a rising up and a drawing near to God in mind and in heart, and in spirit.

I like to rap about things that are funny but mostly things that are relatable. I remember there was this one song with Ja Rule, and I forgot, exactly, but it was with Ashanti, and there's a line in it that was like, 'She hit me up on AIM.' But that wasn't the actual line; it was something else, but I was like, 'Oh my God, he uses AIM!'

Every writer is going to end up drawing from their own experiences in one way or another.

I don't like drawing characters facing right. If I tried to do that at a book signing, I'd have to pencil it first.

A colourist makes his presence known even in a simple charcoal drawing.

what did wards matter when you could create your own reality just by drawing it?

Seven days a week, I'm always drawing, doodling, or painting, whether I'm in the studio or on a plane.

Every job built my career in some way or made me grow as a person or I got to meet someone great. I had one line on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, but I met Will Smith and he took 20 minutes out of his day to talk to the kid with one line. To this day, I think that guy is amazing because of that.

There are any number of very hard working people in Hollywood who deserve recognition. Mostly its the artisans and crafts persons - the 'below the line' workers - whose only reward is to be pejoratively labeled 'below the line' workers. I say get them all on the next thing smoking to Vegas for an all expense paid weekend of whatever.

The legislative department is everywhere extending the sphere of its activity and drawing all power into its impetuous vortex.

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

He who pretends to be either painter or engraver without being a master of drawing is an imposter.

It's about being creative and drawing on who you are when you wake up, and expressing yourself through fashion.

In big movies, interests are not aligned between those above the line and the financier, because above the line gets paid whether the movie works or not. The financier only makes money if the movie works, and that fundamentally sets up a contentious relationship.

The older I become, the more I realize that drawing is the most important of all the problems of picture-making.