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“If you want an interesting party sometime, combine cocktails and a fresh box of crayons for everyone.”

Ifs Want Interesting Party Air Color Boxes New Year Cocktails Crayon Colors Of Life

Author:Robert Fulghum

“Being tame is what we're taught: ... put the crayons back, stay in line, don't talk too loud, keep your knees together, nice girls don't... As you might know, nice girls DO, and they like to feel wild and alive. Being tame feels safe, being wild, unsafe. Yet safety is an illusion anyway. We are not in control. No matter how dry and tame and nice we live, we will die. And we will suffer along the way. Living wild is its own reward.”

Knows Way Feels Matter Might Together Suffering Dies Girl Lines Nice Alive Taught Safe Illusion Safety Rewards Loud Knees Dry Unsafe Crayon Nice Girl

Author:Sark

“Broken crayons still colour the same”

Stills Broken Colour Crayon

Author:Trent Shelton

“At the end of the world the sunset is like a child smashing a pack of crayons into God’s face.”

World Children Ends Faces Sunset Packs End Of The World Smashing Crayon

Author:Craig Stone

“It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.”

Art Eye Imagination Objects Ignorance Color Block Fixed My Imagination Stumbling Unchangeable Crayon Stumbling Blocks

Author:Paul Gauguin

“A box of crayons and a big sheet of paper provides a more expressive medium for kids than computerized paint programs.”

Bigs Kids Paper Program Paint Boxes Mediums Sheets Expressive Crayon

Author:Clifford Stoll

“Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.”

Writing Wells Enough Language Wish Practice Speech Tough Letters Constant Complexes Crayon

Author:David Remnick

“Kids are without a doubt the most suspicious diners in the world. They will eat mud (raw or baked) rocks, paste, crayons, ball-point pens, moving goldfish, cigarette butts, and cat food. Try to coax a little beef stew into their mouths and they look at you like a puppy when you stand over him with the Sunday paper rolled up.”

Source: The Erma Bombeck Collection: If Life Is a Bowl of Cherries, What Am I Doing in the Pits?, Motherhood, and The Grass Is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank

“I knew that I wanted to be an illustrator since I was in kindergarten. I can remember the exact day. The art teacher usually came to our classroom once a week, but she was absent that day. Instead, our regular teacher gave us each a huge piece of paper and crayons, and we could do whatever we wanted.”

Art I Can Wanted Remember Teacher Pieces Week Huge Paper Classroom Absent Kindergarten Crayon Illustrators Art Teacher

Author:Jan Brett

“The use of the right word, the exact word, is the difference between a pencil with a sharp point and a thick crayon.”

Use Differences Thick Pencils Right Words Crayon

Author:Peter Marshall

“I mean there are so many different colors of life, of feeling, of articulation... so when I meet someone who's an 8-color type... I'm like, 'Hey girl, magenta!' and she's like, 'Oh, you mean purple!' and she goes off on her purple thing, and I'm like, 'No - I want magenta!'”

Want Mean Different Feelings Girl Color Type Hey Purple Crayon Different Colors Articulation Colors Of Life Periwinkle Magenta Vibrant Colors

Author:John Mayer

“Our attitudes are the crayons that color our world.”

World Attitude Color Our World Crayon

Author:Allen Klein

“We don't need a head of state who guts our defenses and draws phony red lines with a pink crayon.”

Needs States Lines Draws Red Defense Guts Phony Crayon Head Of State Red Lines

Author:Oliver North

“Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A Beauty Bomb. And every time a crisis developed, we would launch one. And people would smile and get a little funny look on their faces and cover the world with imagination.”

People World Should Looks Littles Faces Next Imagination Secret Weapons Crisis Bombs Inner Child Peaceful World Crayon

Author:Robert Fulghum

“My biggest problem with President Bush is when we were in kindergarten together, he broke my favorite red crayon! Since that moment, my psychiatrist told me that I haven't been able to move forward as a person. Severely hindering the chances of me being able to mature any since that tragic day. For that, I'll never forgive him.”

“I used my daughter's crayons for each main character. One end of the wallpaper was the beginning of the story, and the other end was the end, and then there was all that middle part, which was the middle.”

Ends Character Stories Used Middle Daughter My Daughter Main Characters Crayon

Book:Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

Source: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse-five

“You can write a letter with a typewriter, a pencil, or a crayon. What you have to say is the important thing.”

Writing Important Letters Important Things Pencils Typewriters Crayon

Book:The art of landscape painting

Source: The art of landscape painting

“I built the film [Boy and the World] this way. I gathered all the tools I usually use such as brushes, color pencils, crayons, watercolors, and everything else I found in my studio, and I put them on top of a table. I had this feeling of freedom and possibility like if I was this boy. I was using the boy's freedom to create this film.”

Ifs World Way Use Feelings Film Found Boys Possibility Color Built Tools Tables Studios Brushes Pencils Crayon Watercolors

Author:Alex Abreu

“Before I knew the camera, I knew about images. It's all about trying to make light with a pencil or with a crayon. It really helped me in the beginning, because I understood how light and shadow were working on an image.”

Trying Light Understood Shadow Cameras Pencils Crayon Light And Shadow

Author:Malick Sidibe

“My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold.”

Wanted My Family Gold Boxes Eight Colour Silver Crayon Turquoise Magenta

Author:Joni Mitchell

“I received rejection letters for ten years (one on a napkin, written in crayon.) I had all my rejection notices stored in a box. When the box was finally full I took it to the curb and set it on fire. The next day I went out and got a temp job.”

Years Jobs Next Fire Written Ten Letters Boxes Rejection Next Day Curb Crayon Napkins Year One Rejection Letters

Author:Janet Evanovich

“As far as CGI and hand-drawn animation, I consider them both nothing more than tools for drawing pictures, the same as crayons or oils. Which is why, to me, the most important thing is what it is you are drawing, and in the themes that I depict, I think hand-drawing is the most effective.”

Thinking Important Hands Tools Important Things Oil Drawing Theme Animation Crayon Cgi Drawing Pictures

Author:Mamoru Hosoda

“I like garage band for writing because you only have crayons and there are only five crayons in the box. Your choices are limited and I find that to be very good for me.”

Writing Choices Five Band Very Good Boxes Garage Crayon

Author:Erin McKeown

“I was always doing paintings. I actually started painting with oil paints when I was four years old. Not crayons, not pencils and that kid of stuff. I'd paint birds. Anything that moved, stuff like that.”

Years Kids Stuff Four Painting Bird Moved Paint Oil Four Years Pencils Crayon

Author:Paul Laffoley

“I began drawing probably when I was - around the same time everybody else puts a mark on a piece of paper with a crayon - when I was two, probably. The difference between me and everybody else is, I kept doing it for the rest of my life; there was something very satisfying about that.”

Author:David Small

“Your attitude is like a box of crayons that color your world. Constantly color your picture gray, and your picture will always be bleak. Try adding some bright colors to the picture by including humor, and your picture begins to lighten up.”

World Trying Attitude Positive Thinking Color Including Boxes Positivity Gray Bleak Crayon Bright Colors Positive Attitude Images

Author:Allen Klein

“What is fabulous about gay marriage is that it redefines the gender designated jobs, then you throw in transgender and you don't just have the five primary colors of the crayons. We have to really look at what it means to be a man or a woman in a much more generous and creative way.”

Men Mean Creative Gay Gender Generous Fabulous Gay Marriage Transgender Crayon

Author:Susan Sarandon

“Leave me in a room with some crayons and I'll draw on the wall.”

Rooms Wall Draws Leaving Me Crayon

Author:Marilyn Manson

“Life is like a box of crayons. Most people are the 8-color boxes, but what you're really looking for are the 64-color boxes with the sharpeners on the back. I fancy myself to be a 64-color box, though I've got a few missing.”

People Life Is Missing Color Boxes Fancy Life Is Like Crayon Colors Of Life Periwinkle Sharpener Magenta Vibrant Colors

Author:John Mayer

“Color is my day-long obsession, joy and torment.”

Long Art Motivational Joy Color Painting Obsession Painter Colour Torment Deathbed Crayon Bright Colors

Book:Claude Monet

Source: Claude Monet

“I was quiet, a loner. I was one of those children where, if you put me in a room and gave me some crayons and a pencils, you wouldn't hear from me for nine straight hours. And I was always drawing racing cars and rockets and spaceships and planes, things that were very fast that would take me away.”

Ifs Children Hours Rooms Car Quiet Drawing Nine Planes Take Me Racing Pencils Rockets Loner Spaceships Race Car Crayon Take Me Away

Author:Gary Oldman

“Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? no. Just as one can never learn how to paint.”

Two Pain Artist Next Color Painting Paint Colour Crayon Colors Of Life

Author:Pablo Picasso

“My skin is kind of sort of brownish pinkish yellowish white. My eyes are greyish blueish green, but I'm told they look orange in the night. My hair is reddish blondish brown, but its silver when its wet, and all the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.”

Looks Kind Eye Night White Color Hair Skins Green Brown Silver Wet Orange Crayon

Author:Shel Silverstein

“When I write, I feel like an armless, legless man with a crayon in his mouth.”

Men Feels Writing Humor Mouths Deep Thought Crayon

Author:Kurt Vonnegut

“I forgive nothing. If you stole my orange crayon in the fifth grade, you're still on my hit list, buddy.”

Ifs Stills Forgiving Lists Grades Orange Fifth Buddy Crayon Fifth Grade

Author:Jonathan Carroll

“If truth were a crayon and it was up to me to put a wrapper on it and name it's color, I know just what I would call it-dinosaur skin.”

Ifs Knows Names Color Skins Dinosaurs Crayon

Author:Sarah Weeks

“We're being lead by an idiot with a crayon.”

Author:Eoin Colfer

“What I notice is that every adult or child I give a new set of Crayolas to goes a little funny. The kids smile, get a glazed look on their faces, pour the crayons out, and just look at them for a while....The adults always get the most wonderful kind of sheepish smile on their faces--a mixture of delight and nostalgia and silliness. And they immediately start telling you about all their experiences with Crayolas.”

Giving Looks Kind Children Littles Kids Faces Wonderful Adults Delight Nostalgia Mixtures Silliness Crayon

Author:Robert Fulghum

“For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.”

Moments Broken Tests Clouds Boxes Holes Cheating Lunch Essays Condom Sneakers Crayon Flakes Wintergirls

Book:Wintergirls

Source: Wintergirls

“The idea is to remain in a state of constant departure, while always arriving.”

Ideas States Constant Waking Departure Arriving Crayon Waking Life

Author:Richard Linklater

“We tilt our heads back and open wide. The snow drifts into our zombie mouths crawling with grease and curses and tobacco flakes and cavities and boyfriend/girlfriend juice, the stain of lies. For one moment we are not failed tests and broken condoms and cheating on essays; we are crayons and lunch boxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds. For one breath everything feels better. Then it melts. The bus drivers rev their engines and the ice cloud shatters. Everyone shuffles forward. They don't know what just happened. They can't remember.”

“When the people sat around on the porch and passed around the pictures of their thoughts for the others to look at and see, it was nice. The fact that the thought pictures were always crayon enlargements of life made it even nicer to listen to.”

People Looks Made Facts Nice Made It Sat Porch Crayon Enlargement

Book:Their Eyes Were Watching God

Source: Their Eyes Were Watching God

“But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons”

Children Courses Cities Paper Built Logic Fairy Construction San Francisco Pipe Cleaners Rubber Cement Crayon Happy Children

Book:A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

Source: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

“If a restaurant offers crayons, I always take them and color throughout the meal. It beats talking to the people I came to dinner with.”

People Ifs Talking Color Offers Beats Dinner Meals Restaurants Crayon

Author:Stephan Pastis

“You get older and you are a whole mess of things, new thoughts, sorry feelings, big plans, enormous doubts, goling along hoping and getting disappointed, over and over again, no wonder I don't recognize my little crayon picture. It appears to be me and it is and it is not.”

Littles Whole Feelings Bigs Wonder Doubt Plans Sorry Enormous Mess Disappointed New Thought Crayon

Book:True Believer

Source: True Believer

“History written in pencil is easily erased, but crayon is forever.”

Forever Written Pencils Crayon

Author:Emilie Autumn

“They aren't the brightest crayons in the box -Max(saving the world and other extreme sports)”

World Sports Boxes Extremes Saving Max Save The World Crayon Extreme Sports

Author:James Patterson

“We either learn to accept or we end up writing letters home with crayons.”

Writing Ends Home Accepting Letters Crayon

Author:Stephen King

“I've read your summary." "And?" "It's not incompetent." Be still, my heart, so I don't faint from such faint phrase. "Did you expect it to be written in crayon?”

Heart Stills Written My Heart Phrases Incompetent Summary Crayon Magic Bleeds

Author:Ilona Andrews

“Talking. According to Marc, I could talk the color off a crayon.”

Talking Color Crayon

Book:Pride

Source: Pride