Drawneye Quotes & Sayings

I don't paint women, I paint pictures ... What I am after above all is expression. If in a portrait I put eyes, a nose, a mouth, there isn't much use; on the contrary it paralyses the imagination of the spectator, and obliges us to see the person in a certain way. — Henri Matisse

She had softened at his concern for her, but his tone was back to being scathing. She deduced that his concern was not for her safety. Dealing with the dead bodies of guests who broke their necks tumbling down his staircase in too long skirts would have disturbed his schedule. — Anya Wylde

The establishment irritates you - pull your beard, flick your face - to make you fight because once they've got you violent they know how to handle you. The only thing they don't know how to handle is non-violence and humour. — John Lennon

It's not lost on me that everyone dies, but some people have a kind of immortality about them, and you can't imagine that they will ever be gone. — Henry Rollins

Middle-status conformity leads us to choose the safety of the tried-and-true over the danger of the original. Sociologists — Adam M. Grant

I'm a girl who enjoys a great meal with great friends, so I'm not really that concerned about weight loss. — Jill Scott

We are largely the playthings of our fears. To one, fear of the dark; to another, of physical pain; to a third, of public ridicule; to a fourth, of poverty; to a fifth, of loneliness ... for all of us, our particular creature waits in ambush. — Horace Walpole

When it's all said and done, I hope to die with a smile on my face. — Anthony Liccione

A lot of times, you do independent films for passion because you may even lose money doing one, but it doesn't matter. — Sung Kang

I have been, and will remain, outspoken in my insistence that Israel has a right to live in peace and security. — Ban Ki-moon

There are many legal and psychological ramifications to using Krav Maga in the real world and nearly all of them are extremely unpleasant. — Craig De Ruisseau

If we're isolated, we come to feel powerless when we're not. — Gloria Steinem

I can't speak for the future. I have no crystal ball. — Michael Jordan

But I've discovered being a writer is an ongoing apprenticeship, just like everything else in life that matters to me-being a mother, a wife, a daughter, or simply a woman alive in the world, content to be myself. Today at thirty-two, I am glad to wake up each day and begin. — Sue Monk Kidd