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“True healing means drawing the circle of our being larger and becoming more inclusive, more capable of loving. In this sense, healing is not for the sick alone, but for all humankind.”

Mean Healing Becoming Capable Sick Drawing Circles Humankind Becoming More

Author:Richard Moss

“The long night of human history is drawing at last to its conclusion.”

Humans Long Lasts Night Drawing Conclusion Human History Long Nights

Author:Terence McKenna

“One of the things I like about doing historical films is drawing the line between now and then.”

Film Lines Historical Drawing Now And Then Drawing The Line

Author:James Purefoy

“I wrote a lot. I was in programs for drawing when I was a kid.”

Kids Program Drawing

Author:Boyd Holbrook

“But still when the mists of doubt prevail, And we lie becalmed by the shores of age, We hear from the misty troubled shore The voce of children gone before. Drawing the soul to its anchorage.”

Children Stills Soul Age Lying Gone Doubt Childhood Drawing Shore Mist Misty

Book:Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist

Source: Poetical Works, Complete: Top American Novelist

“But every human path leads on to God; He holds a myriad finer threads than gold, And strong as holy wishes, drawing us With delicate tension upward to Himself.”

Humans Strong Wish Path Holy Gold Drawing Tension Delicate Thread Providence

Book:The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman

Source: The Poetical Works of Edmund Clarence Stedman

“the best way to remember a beautiful city or a beautiful painting is to eat something while you are looking at it. The flavor really helps the image to penetrate the body. It fixes it as lacquer does a drawing.”

Way Doe Helping Body Beautiful Remember Cities Painting Eating Drawing Best Way Flavor Penetrate Beautiful City Beautiful Paintings

Author:Anais Nin

“Falsehood, like a drawing in perspective, will not bear to be examined in every point of view, because it is a good imitation of truth, as a perspective is of the reality, only in one. But truth, like that reality of which the perspective is the representation, will bear to be scrutinized in all points of view, and though examined under every situation, is one and the same.”

Reality Views Situation Perspective Bears Point Of View Drawing Falsehood Representation Imitation

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“God Himself - His thoughts, His will, His love, His judgments are men's home. To think His thoughts, to choose His will, to judge His judgments, and thus to know that He is in us, with us, is to be at home. And to pass through the valley of the shadow of death is the way home, but only thus, that as all changes have hitherto led us nearer to this home, the knowledge of God, so this greatest of all outward changes - for it is but an outward change - will surely usher us into a region where there will be fresh possibilities of drawing nigh in heart, soul, and mind to the Father of us all.”

Thinking Knows Men Way Mind Heart Soul God Home Father Possibility Judging Judgment Shadow Drawing Regions Valleys His Love Knowledge Of God Way Home Shadow Of Death

Author:George MacDonald

“It must be a prospect pleasing to God Himself to see His creation forever beautifying in His eyes, and drawing nearer Him by greater degrees of resemblance.”

Eye Forever Greater Creation Degrees Drawing His Eyes Holiness Resemblance

Book:The evidences of the Christian religion: with additional discourses on the following subjects, viz: Of God, and his attributes. The power and wisdom of God in the creation. The providence of God. The worship of God. Advantages of revelation above natural reason. Excellency of the Christian institution. Dignity of the Scripture language. Against atheism and infidelity. Against the modern free-thinkers. Immortality of the soul, and a future state. Death and judgment

Source: The evidences of the Christian religion: with additional discourses on the following subjects, viz: Of God, and his attributes. The power and wisdom of God in the creation. The providence of God. The worship of God. Advantages of revelation above natural reason. Excellency of the Christian institution. Dignity of the Scripture language. Against atheism and infidelity. Against the modern free-thinkers. Immortality of the soul, and a future state. Death and judgment

“As for 'drawing you out,' please believe I don't do such things deliberately, with an object -- It's only that I am, as a rule, far more interested in people than they are in me -- But it makes me a nuisance, I know: only an innocent nuisance.”

People Knows Believe Objects Please Drawing Innocent Nuisance

Book:A Change of Perspective

Source: A Change of Perspective

“Intuition is a combination of insight and imagination that was once attributed to spiritual communication. Mathematicians call it 'fuzzy logic,' drawing conclusions from vague or subjective input. The mind becomes aware without the direct intervention of reasoning. Once you can imagine something you can begin the process of creating it. Executives use intuition to make many product, investment, and hiring decisions, even if they deny it. Success in business may depend on an accurate gut.”

Source: Thinking In The Future Tense

“Bright as does the morning star appear, Out of the east with flaming locks bedight, To tell the dawning day is drawing near.”

Doe Stars Morning East Drawing Locks

Book:The Fairy Queen

Source: The Fairy Queen

“I do not find fault with equality for drawing men into the pursuit of forbidden pleasures, but for absorbing them entirely in the search for the pleasures that are permitted.”

Men Pleasure Faults Drawing Pursuit Forbidden Absorbing

Author:Alexis de Tocqueville

“Defend me, therefore, common sense, say From reveries so airy, from the toil Of dropping buckets into empty wells, And growing old in drawing nothing up.”

Wells Common Growing Empty Drawing Common Sense Folly Toil Dropping Growing Old Buckets Reverie Airy

Author:William Cowper

“I have heard a good story of Charles Fox. When his house was on fire, he found all efforts to save it useless, and, being a good draughtsman, he went up to the next hill to make a drawing of the fire,--the best instance of philosophy I ever heard of.”

Philosophy Stories Next Found House Effort Fire Heard Drawing Instance Hills Useless Foxes Good Story Resignation

Author:Robert Southey

“Who bides his time tastes the sweet Of honey in the saltiest tear; And though he fares with slowest feet Joy runs to meet him drawing near.”

Running Joy Difficult Feet Tears Sweet Taste Drawing Honey Difficult Days

Author:James Whitcomb Riley

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

Way Found Opinion Drawing Grants

Author:Ulysses S. Grant

“Many a woman will pass for elegant in a ballroom, or even at a court drawing room, whose want of true breeding would become evident in a chosen company.”

Want Rooms Company Court Drawing Chosen Evident Elegant Elegance Breeding Ballroom

Book:Modern Society

Source: Modern Society

“Never ask a favor until you are drawing your last breath; and never forget one.”

Lasts Asks Forget Breaths Drawing Favors Never Forget

Book:Fanny Fern [pseud.]: A Memorial Volume. Containing Her Select Writings and a Memoir

Source: Fanny Fern [pseud.]: A Memorial Volume. Containing Her Select Writings and a Memoir

“My instinct has always been to turn drawbacks into drawing cards.”

Turns Challenges Instinct Drawing Cards Drawbacks

Book:The Eminent American Comedienne Marie Dressler in The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling: An Autobiographical Fragment in Seven Parts

Source: The Eminent American Comedienne Marie Dressler in The Life Story of an Ugly Duckling: An Autobiographical Fragment in Seven Parts

“Somehow I felt that if Fox Talbot had had more time and more drawing talent, he would have filled in the interval between his two drawings and made a complete panorama. Now, 163 years later, I was able to use his great invention to elaborate on his youthful dream of capturing and fixing the fleeting image. In doing so, I may also have added another little bit to the soul of this extraordinary place.”

Source: Permutations on the picturesque

“I don't spend as much time drawing as I do writing and reading. That's the really work-intensive part. And by the time I have enough material, it's often way past due time to put the comic up, and I'm already behind schedule, and I have to kind of rush it.”

Way Writing Kind Enough Past Reading Behinds Materials Dues Drawing Comic Schedules Writing And Reading Due Time

Author:Kate Beaton

“I always liked doing all sorts of different things. As a kid growing up, I was always drawing and painting - always doing art. But I also loved movies and music, so as I started doing everything, I liked every aspect. It's not really that I am a control freak; it's just that is what I love.”

Art Different Kids Growing Up Growing Painting Aspect Drawing Different Things Freak Control Freak Kids Growing Up Drawing And Painting Movies And Music

Author:Rob Zombie

“All I liked to do when I was a kid was draw. My childhood was like my adult life: drawing pictures with my brother, putting the comics up on the glass window, and tracing the characters onto tracing paper or drawing paper and then coloring them. That and making things was all we ever did.”

Character Kids Childhood Brother Paper Draws Adults Window Glasses Drawing My Brother Tracing Drawing Pictures

Author:Maurice Sendak

“Everything is 'colossalized' - events, fortunes, accidents, climate, conversation, ambitions - everything is in the extreme ... They can't even have a tram run off a line, which in England or France might kill one or two people, without its making a holocaust of half a street full. ... The thing which surprises me is they should still employ animals of normal size; one would expect to see elephants and mammoths drawing the hansoms and carts!”

“So long as we continued to attach more importance to our own narrow group membership than to the 'global village' we would propagate prejudice and ignorance. There was absolutely no harm in being part of a small group - indeed, with our hunter-gatherer band mentality it gave comfort, provided us with an inner circle of friends who could be utterly trusted, who were absolutely reliable. It helped give us peace of mind. The danger came only from drawing that sharp line, digging that ditch, laying that minefield, between our own group and any other group that thought differently.”

“Visitors should conform as much as possible to the habits and customs of the house. They should be moderate in their demands for personal attendance. They should not carry their moods into the drawing-room or to the table, and, whether they are bored or not, should be ready to contribute as much as in their power to an atmosphere of pleasure. If the above involves too much self-sacrifice, then an invitation to visit should by no means be accepted.”

“Photography is not only drawing with light, though light is the indispensable agent of its being. It is modeling or sculpturing with light, to reproduce the plastic form of natural objects. It is painting with light.”

Light Form Natural Objects Painting Photography Drawing Agents Plastic Indispensable Modeling

Book:A guide to better photography

Source: A guide to better photography

“In fact, Western culture has spent decades drawing lines and boxes around interconnected phenomena. We've chunked the world into pieces rather than explored its webby nature.”

World Facts Culture Lines Pieces Western Boxes Decades Drawing Interconnected Western Culture Drawing The Line

Author:Margaret J. Wheatley

“I have a theory that I did most of my observing probably before I was twenty, stored it, and am still drawing on it.”

Stills Youth Theory Twenties Drawing Observing

Author:Joyce Grenfell

“Ritual is one of the ways in which humans put their lives in perspective, whether it be Purim, Advent, or drawing down the moon. Ritual calls together the shades and specters in people's lives, sorts them out, puts them to rest.”

People Way Humans Together Perspective Moon Drawing Ritual Shade Advent

Author:Clarissa Pinkola Estes

“The issue of comparative performances can be regarded as settled to-day, both scientifically and practically. Though differences in attitudes between men and women still form a favorite topic of drawing-room conversation ... women's abilities are no longer seriously in doubt. These discussions rather seem to be a kind of rearguard action carried on after the main battle has been decided.”

Source: Women's Two Roles: Home and Work

“Leaders are visionaries. They see the outcome. Leaders are communicators. They tell us what they're seeing. They hold the dream, letting us feel that it's possible. Our minds open up to what they show us could be. We dream with them. We get excited with them, drawing on all our abilities to create the future.”

Feels Mind Shows Dream Ability Leader Seeing Excited Drawing Outcomes Visionaries Communicators

Book:Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success

Source: Our Children Are Watching: Ten Skills for Leading the Next Generation to Success

“I am biased towards the belief that every painter must be grounded in strong and faultless drawing skills, and until one has not experimented with all styles of painting and has not comprehended their potentialities one's work is not complete. Even an abstract painter must know how to draw as well as a figurative artist. As for me, drawing has never created any problem, since I know how to draw anatomy correctly if I had to, I understand the function of muscle groups and sculpture.”

Ifs Knows Wells Problem Artist Belief Strong Know How Groups Style Painting Skills Draws Function Drawing Painter Abstract Muscles Grounded Sculpture Anatomy Biased

Author:Guity Novin

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

Mind Heart Spirit Prayer Drawing Rising Rising Up

Book:Lord, Teach Us to Pray: Sermons on Prayer

Source: Lord, Teach Us to Pray: Sermons on Prayer

“Ambas and Bobia Islands are perfect gems of beauty. Mondoleh I cannot say I admire. It always looks to me exactly like one of those flower-stands full of ferns and plants - the sort you come across in drawing rooms at home, with wire-work legs. I do not mean that Mondoleh has wire-work legs under water, but it looks as if it might have.”

Ifs Looks Mean Home Might Water Perfect Rooms Flower Plant Legs Drawing Admire Islands Wire Gems Ferns

Author:Mary Kingsley

“The ultimate obscenity is not caring, not doing something about what you feel, not feeling! Just drawing back and drawing in; becoming narcissistic.”

Feels Feelings Becoming Ultimate Caring Drawing Narcissistic Not Caring Obscenity

Author:Rod Serling

“I enjoy the art, and I enjoy drawing. I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book.”

Thinking Looks Art Book Enjoy Drawing Comic This Day Comic Book Printing

Author:Nathan Fillion

“An animatic is a process where every voice and every sound effect is added to rough animated drawings and it lasts exactly as long as the final movie. So you actually get to go into a screening room with the rest of the cast and you get to see it all at the same time.”

Long Lasts Process Sound Voice Rooms Effects Finals Casts Drawing Rough Animated Screening Sound Effects

Author:Tom Hanks

“The percentage of Indian kids doing some sort of artistic work is much higher than in the general population - painting, drawing, dancing, singing. The creation of art is still an everyday part of Indian culture, unlike the dominant culture, where art is sort of peripheral.”

Art Stills Kids Culture Creation Painting Higher Singing Art Is Dancing Everyday Population Drawing Artistic Indian Dominant Percentages Indian Culture Dominant Culture

Author:Sherman Alexie

“Comics is different than writing because when you draw something you are trying to visualize it and you are trying to put yourself in that space. And when you're drawing something, all sorts of associations come up in my mind that I never would have thought of otherwise.”

Writing Trying Mind Different Space Draws Come Up Drawing Association

Author:Chris Ware

“"Real" drawing is about specifics. It's about describing an object as accurately as possible. In a comic strip you have to draw a picture of the idea of the object. You have to draw the word that you are picturing, then you have to mix in specifics with it for it to work as a story. But you are still working with drawn words.”

Stills Ideas Real Stories Objects Draws Drawing Comic Describing Comic Strips Specifics

Author:Chris Ware

“Growing old was simply a process of drawing closer to that ultimate independence called death.”

Death Process Growing Ultimate Independence Aging Drawing Growing Old

Book:The White Reef

Source: The White Reef

“I paint; I'm a woman but I don't paint china. The first time I got a canvas I felt free. Art is overreaction to life. I love these early drawings; they show my innocent beginnings in a small town. Life is a sentence -- you live it out. Maybe these portraits jump out at you too much. People like things that conform.”

People Firsts Art Shows Life Is Felt Too Much Art Is First Time Towns Paint China Sentences Drawing Innocent Canvas Portraits Conform Small Town Small Town Life Overreaction

Author:Alice Neel

“People go into cartooning because they're shy and they're angry. That's when you're sitting in the back of a classroom drawing the teacher.”

People Teacher Sitting Angry Drawing Shy Classroom

Author:Matt Groening

“I had been drawing my weekly comic strip, 'Life in Hell,' for about five years when I got a call from Jim Brooks, who was developing 'The Tracey Ullman Show' for the brand-new Fox network. He wanted me to come in and pitch an idea for doing little cartoons on that show.”

Years Littles Ideas Shows Wanted Hell Five Drawing Brands Comic Developing Five Years Foxes Cartoon Brooks Brand New Comic Strips

Author:Matt Groening

“The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work.”

Hard Shows Wish Hard Work Reader Drawing Print Imaginative

Author:Matt Groening

“There's always room out there for the hand-drawn image. I personally like the imperfection of hand drawing as opposed to the slick look of computer animation. But you can do good stuff either way. The Pixar movies are amazing in what they do, but there's plenty of independent animators who are doing really amazing things as well.”

Way Wells Looks Hands Stuff Can Do Rooms Computer Independent Drawing Plenty Imperfection Animation Amazing Things Really Amazing Slick Animator Pixar Computer Animation

Author:Matt Groening

“I couldn't possibly tell you. But I would say be very careful with your suppositions. People are so quick to jump. That's what I love about playing the character. People are so quick to draw conclusions about who he is. The whole thing about Loki is that he's dancing on this liminal line between redemption and destruction. Just be very careful about drawing conclusions based on what you see.”

People Whole Character Lines Draws Destruction Dancing Careful Drawing Conclusion Redemption Supposition Drawing Conclusions

Author:Tom Hiddleston