Best Dabs Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith

“Those dabs of paint and lines become art when form and flow are created out of lower-level perceptual elements. When they combine harmoniously they give rise to perspective, foreground and background, and ultimately to emotion and other aesthetic attributes.”

Giving Art Form Lines Levels Emotion Perspective Elements Flow Paint Backgrounds Attributes Aesthetic Foreground Dabs

Book:This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession

Source: This Is Your Brain On Music: Understanding a Human Obsession

“My friend Harry Nilsson used to say the definition of an artist was someone who rode way ahead of the herd and was sort of the lookout. Now you don't have to be that, to be an artist. You can be right smack-dab in the middle of the herd. If you are, you'll be the richest.”

Ifs Way Used Artist Middle My Friends Definitions Herds Smack Dabs

Author:Albert Brooks

“When I was shooting a movie in Montreal, it was freezing. If you take a little bit of Aquaphor and dab it on your face, it keeps your skin looking fresh. I dubbed it Aqua For Everything.”

Ifs Littles Faces Bits Little Bit Skins Shooting Your Face Freezing Montreal Aqua Dabs

Author:Lucy Liu

“It had that comfortably sprung, lived-in look that library books with a lively circulation always get; bent page corners, a dab of mustard on page 331, a whiff of some reader's spilled after-dinner whiskey on page 468. Only library books speak with such wordless eloquence of the power good stories hold over us, how good stories abide, unchanged and mutely wise, while we poor humans grow older and slower.”

Humans Looks Book Stories Speak Grows Poor Wise Reader Pages Library Corners Dinner Bent Eloquence Whiskey Good Story Lively Circulation Sprung Library Books Mustard Dabs

Book:Salem's Lot

Source: Salem's Lot

“Just as a picture is created by adding a dab of paint at a time, the best arrangements are created a step at a time, with pauses so you can step back and see the overall effect.”

Steps Effects Design Paint Arrangements Pauses Interior Design Dabs

Author:Charlotte Moss

“I don't really wear lip gloss often, but I do like to wear a dab of lipstick. I put a dab on my lip and mix it with some of my chapstick, and people think it's my natural color!”

People Thinking Natural Color Lips Lipstick Gloss Lip Gloss Dabs Chapstick

Author:Kristinia DeBarge

“Nearly always when actors are approached by the beauticians, they try to avoid the dabs that the beauticians put on their faces. They dodge them.”

Trying Faces Actors Dodge Dabs Beauticians

Author:Quentin Crisp

“The world will give you that once in awhile, a brief timeout; the boxing bell rings and you go to your corner, where somebody dabs mercy on your beat-up life.”

World Giving Beats Mercy Corners Rings Boxing Bells Dabs

Author:Sue Monk Kidd

“Um, there's a girl meeting her friend,' he went on. 'Her friend is giving her an ice-cream cone. Oh-it's dripping. Huh. It, uh, dripped on her...chest.' Iggy drew in a hissing breath. It's gonna stain for sure,' the Gasman said. 'That's chocolate.' Hmm,' Fang said, watching, the girl dab at her chest with a paper napkin.”

Giving Said Girl Paper Breaths Meetings Ice Chocolate Chests Cream Ice Cream Stains Fangs Dripping Hmm Cones Napkins Hissing Ice Cream Cones Dabs

Author:James Patterson

“Almost anything is edible with a dab of French mustard on it.”

Mustard Dabs

Book:The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater

Source: The Kitchen Diaries: A Year in the Kitchen with Nigel Slater

“I want to show you something,” I say. What?” He dabs at his lips with the napkin, and for a moment I’m wishing so hard that I am that napkin that I can almost feel myself changing, becoming thin and papery and white. “Cal?” I sit back and feel myself blushing, feel it from the tips of my toes all the way to the heat at the backs of my ears.”

Way Want Feels I Can Hard Moments Shows Wish White Becoming Ears Lips Heat Toes Blushing Napkins Dabs

Author:Brad Barkley

“We so seldom understand each other. But if understanding is neither here nor there, and the universe is infinite, then understand that no matter where we go we will always be smack dab in the middle of nowhere. All we can do is share some piece of ourselves, and hope that it’s remembered. Hope that we meant something to someone”

Ifs Matter Universe Understanding Can Do Pieces Share Middle Infinite Remembered Smack Middle Of Nowhere Dabs

Author:Shane Koyczan

“Before AIM, Indians were dispirited, defeated, and culturally dissolving. People were ashamed to be Indian. You didn't see the young people wearing braids or chokers or ribbon shirts in those days. Hell, I didn't wear 'em. People didn't Sun Dance, they didn't Sweat, they were losing their languages. Then there was that spark at Alcatraz, and we took off. Man, we took a ride across this country. We put Indians and Indian rights smack dab in the middle of the public consciousness for the first time since the so-called Indian wars.”

“When we’re home sometimes, she’ll put on mascara. And sometimes I’ll let her wear something out to dinner – but just a little dab. Also having a father who adores you the way that he adores her is very good for your body image. The more we can love her and let her be who she is, the more confident she’ll feel.”

Way Feels Littles Sometimes Home Body Care Father Very Good Dinner Your Body Health Care Adore Body Image Mascara Adore You Dabs

Author:Gwyneth Paltrow

“I carry McCormick’s Pure Vanilla [in my purse] — the baking kind — and dab it on my neck… Men are attracted to the scent! One time, I put it on and four different guys were like, ‘You smell amazing!’”

Men Kind Different Guy Four Like You Pure Smell Necks One Time Scent Baking Purses Vanilla Dabs Different Guys

Author:Jennifer Love Hewitt

“And I usually use myself as a model, posing in front of a mirror as I dab the strokes on the canvas.”

Use Fronts Models Mirrors Canvas Strokes Posing Dabs

Author:Cleo Moore

“Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.”

Character Hands Power Findings Weakness Powerless Euphemism Dabs

Author:Quentin Crisp

“There is little difference between the Zulu warrior who smeared bis body with lion's fat and the modern woman who dabs hers with expensive perfume. The one was trying to acquire the courage of the king of beasts, the other is attempting to acquire the irresistible sexuality of flowers. The underlying principle is the same.”

Trying Littles Body Differences Principles Modern Flower Kings Sexuality Fats Warrior Beast Acquire Expensive Lions Perfume Attempting Irresistible Modern Woman Dabs

Author:Tom Robbins

“It is, after all, the dab of grit that seeps into an oyster's shell that makes the pearl, not pearl-making seminars with other oysters.”

Shells Pearls Grit Oysters Seminars Dabs

Book:On writing: a memoir of the craft

Source: On writing: a memoir of the craft

“It was that summer, too, that I began the cutting, and was almost as devoted to it as my newfound loveliness. I adored tending to myself, wiping a shallow red pool of my blood away with a damp washcloth to magically reveal, just above my naval: queasy. Applying alcohol with dabs of a cottonball, wispy shreds sticking to the bloody lines of: perky. I had a dirty streak my senior year, which I later rectified.”

Years Lines Cutting Blood Summer Red Alcohol Dirty Injury Pool Devoted Bloody Senior Shallow Streaks Loveliness Damp Naval Self Injury Senior Year Dabs Perky

Book:Sharp Objects: A Novel

Source: Sharp Objects: A Novel

“You cannot paint the Mona Lisa by assigning one dab each to a thousand painters.”

Thousand Paint Accomplish Painter Mona Lisa Dabs

Book:Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus

Source: Athwart History: Half a Century of Polemics, Animadversions, and Illuminations: A William F. Buckley Jr. Omnibus

“The audience is astonishingly friendly and tolerant of even the slightest dab, but is limited in its willingness to look either deeply or at length.”

Looks Audience Friendly Length Willingness Dabs

Book:Seeing with a painter's eye

Source: Seeing with a painter's eye

“Bryl-cream, a little dab will do you.”

Littles Art Media Entertainment Cream Dabs

Author:Jimmy Buffett