Quotes by Illustrators - Page 15

I unconsciously decided that, even if it wasn't an ideal world, it should be so and painted only the ideal aspects of it - pictures in which there are no drunken slatterns or self-centered mothers . . . only foxy grandpas who played baseball with kids and boys who fished from logs and got up circuses in the back yard.
Norman Rockwell
The strange thing arched its serpentine body to bring its head closer to the bear, all of its many eyes staring straight at him with alien curiosity. The thing looked at the bear. The bear looked at the thing."Oh well," said the bear. "Made a plan. Better stick to it, I suppose." And with that, mallet in paw, he leaped form the boat.
Dave Shelton
Night was fading over the fields as if the rain had washed the darkness out of the hem of its garment.
Cornelia Funke
Love doesn't fail us, it's our expectations that fail us. Lovers sometimes forget that the gift is the call to love itself, and not the result. The quickening, the deepening, the merging, the burning bright in love's cosmic kiln. That's the great gift, no matter where it leads.
Jeff Brown
I think you should learn, of course, and some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up inside of you until it touches everything. And you can feel it inside of you. If you never take time out to let that happen, then you accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you. You can make noise with them, but never really feel anything with them. It's hollow.
E.L. Konigsburg
Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.
Florence Scovel Shinn
There are no bad drawings.Drawings are experiences.The more you draw, the more experienced you'll get.In fact, you'll learn more from bad or unpredictable or weird experiences than from those that go exactly as you'd hoped and planned.So let it go.Release your ego's desire for perfection.Take risks.Stretch.Grow.Create as much as you can, whenever you can.
Danny Gregory
Follow your gut, Storyteller, it will lead to your happy ending.
Isabel Greenberg
Sneaky and underhanded, the Federal Reserve has been sucking the life blood out of the United States since 1913. Like a black widow spider, it weaves a web of corruption and deceit. Unknown to its prey, the FED's bite is poisonous, deep, long-lasting and brings financial upheaval and misery to Americans.
Jim McCarthy
If you think of religion as something that offers a picture of something more grand than us, reading does the same thing. Reading enables us to lift ourselves from our current situation to something higher – and better. It expands one’s own imagination.
Meshack Asare
The tension between what is, and what we dream of, is important. Not to discount what we have, but to hold onto that middle ground, because it's in there that the magic happens.
Susan Branch
Sometimes my age is inappropriate for my behavior.
Tanya Masse
What part of Canada are you from, honey?""THE LEFT PART," said Jay.
Adam Rex
I’d like to THANK whoever saw a bunch of cherries and thought....HEY!! If I dry out a bunch of those berry seeds, call them “BEANS”, smash them and add hot water, it will be AWESOME!
Tanya Masse
His was not the hatred that arises suddenly like a storm and as suddenly abates. It was, once the initial shock of anger and pain was over, a calculated thing that grew in a bloodless way.
Mervyn Peake
. . .from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives, they continually cope with frustrations as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.
Maurice Sendak
Without imagination, there would be no creativity. Without creativity, there would be nothing.
Aneta Cruz
As a beauty I am not a star There are others more handsome by far But my face - I don't mind it For I am behind it. It's the people in front get the jar.
Anthony Euwer
In order to reach our goals we sometimes need a plan B. Other times we go all the way through to plan Z.
Jo Linsdell
Humanity is not only ‘great acts’ spending thousands, putting your name on headlines. Humanity is to be kind to every living being, to be compassionate towards all, even to the tiniest animal, seen and unseen. Some people consider killing ants or pest normal, but I find it is an act of extreme cruelty. By killing them you violate their rights to live. We must remember that the earth and the universe belongs to all of us. We are just another species out of millions of species, and we share the universe with them and most importantly, remember that we belong to each other.
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
You're the one who says books have to be heavy because the whole world's inside them...
Cornelia Funke
I've never thought much of strictly organised and methodical study. You can't arrange a library in alphabetical order until you've collected one.
Walter Moers
For him that stealeth, or borroweth and returneth not, this book from its owner, let it change into a serpent in his hand and rend him. Let him be struck with palsy, and all his members blasted. Let him languish in pain, crying aloud for mercy, and let there be no surcease to this agony till he sing in dissolution. Let bookworms gnaw his entrails in token of the worm that dieth not, and when at last he goeth to his last punishment, let the flames of hell consume him for
Cornelia Funke
Kill the snake of doubt in your soul crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
Kate Seredy
[about a hat] You can put it on and say, "Hey you, person without a hat! I've got something you don't! How did I get it? Probably by being worth more to society.
Alice LeGrow
Every living thing is sacred to me. Compassion and love can heal this world, which is set on fire of violence and hatred. I will teach the world about compassion, and end the suffering by halting these floods of sorrow. Said Prince Siddhartha and began his journey of saving the man kind.” ,
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
But, luckily, he kept his wits and his purple crayon.
Crockett Johnson
No doubt, a father he is the most respected man in our lives, the most admired person. He is the protector, and the guardian of our lives.
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
It was not often that Flay approved of happiness in others.
Mervyn Peake
Political skills are essential career competencies to get ahead and stay ahead.
Bonnie Marcus
Loving her was heaven that turned to hell when she died.
Jonathon Scott Fuqua
Slowly, my feelings started to shrivel up. The few that managed to survive the constant beatings staggered around like wounded baby deer, just biding their time until they could die and join all the other carcasses strewn across the wasteland of my soul.
Allie Brosh
My other boy thing is that I sort of have a teeny tiny superpower. It’s not a jump-over-buildings, see-through-people’s-clothes, or lift-a-train-over-my-head one, which is good, because when you can do those kinds of things you probably have to live in a secret hideout instead of at home with your mom and dad. And I really like my room….
Charise Mericle Harper
Harry was a bright boy. And like many bright boys, he had a little mischief in him.
Patrick Yee
Compassion nourishes the wilted heart.
Jana Fayne Kolpen
If you aren't willing to fight for what you believe in, then you don't really believe in it. Faith is a verb.
Kellen Roggenbuck
Tell me about yourself - your struggles your dreams your telephone number.
Peter Arno
You were talking about the wind," the Fillyjonk said suddenly. "A wind that carries off your washing. But I'm speaking about cyclones. Typhoons, Gaffsie dear. Tornadoes, whirlwinds, sandstorms... Flood waves that carry houses away... But most of all I'm talking about myself and my fears, even if I know that's not done. I know everything will turn out badly. I think about that all the time. Even while I'm washing my carpet. Do you understand that? Do you feel the same way?
Tove Jansson
You can hide things from the world, but you can never hide things from time.
Kim Dong Hwa
School prepares you for the real world... which also bites.
Jim Benton
Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.
Edward Gorey
We lie on the blanket, our bare bodies basking in the sun like Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. Only our apples were bitten a long time ago, and we ate them too.
Henry Martin
Julio was willing to bet that Officer "I've Seen It All" Mac had never seen a horde of black-skinned demons wearing rags and armor and carrying swords and spears, dragging a naked woman and a chubby boy by a rope. No, he was willing to bet his left nut that even officer Mac had never seen such a thing.
Brom
If I were John LennonAnd my feelings for you grew,I'd have left The BeatlesTo spend all my time with you
Lisa Swerling
Clever of you, Hemul. But, on the other hand, think how lonely the Groke is because nobody likes her, and she hates everybody. The Contents is perhaps the only thing she has. Would you now take that away from her too -- lonely and rejected in the night?" Sniff became more and more affected and his voice trembled. "Cheated out of her only possession by Thingumy and Bob." He blew his nose and couldn't go on.
Tove Jansson
She loves him sobut he didn't stay.The wind can't blowthis storm away.
Phoebe Stone
It's a good idea to have your own books with you in a strange place
Cornelia Funke
Moominmamma had got up very early to pack their rucksacks, and was bustling to and fro with wooly stockings and packets of sandwiches, while down by the bridge Moominpappa was getting their raft in order."Mamma, dar," said Moomintroll, "we can't possibly take all that with us. Everyone will laugh.""It's cold in the Lonely Mountains," said Moominmamma, stuffing in an umbrella and a frying pan. "Have you got a compass?""Yes," answered Moomintroll, "but couldn't you at least leave out the plates -- we can easily eat off rhubarb leaves.
Tove Jansson
There you go. Perfect. And can you still throw up at will like you could in sixth grade? That would be good.
Adam Rex
A gripping historical novel . . . heart-stopping, heart-racing and eventually heart-easing.–Library Voice
Sharon Lovejoy
And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.
Mark Haddon
This place is alive," Sunni said in wonder. "Things are moving. Inside a painting.
Teresa Flavin
Homeopathy is the only non-violent health care system
Ron Harris
The things that matter don't necessarily make sense.
Russell Hoban
Do not let reading become a forgotten art
Carmela Dutra
There is only one person in the world, aside from your dog, who has any hope of liking you regardless of your success or failure. That's you. I think it's worth a little of your time to get to know that person better.
H.L. Stephens
Your mother contained a good spirit. A loving spirit. A spirit that will not cease to exist.Eva looked at him, her brows furrowed.Rovender placed his arm around Eva's shoulders. "You see, she lives within you now, in all of the lessons that she taught you. Lessons you will never forget. Lessons you will always carry with you... and will one day pass on.
Tony DiTerlizzi
You should see my corgis at sunset in the snow. It's their finest hour. About five o'clock they glow like copper. Then they come in and lie in front of the fire like a string of sausages.
Tasha Tudor
There are so many of you, and you are still just the way I thought I'd grow up, with all that was enviably grown-up about you: the lace tops with modesty inserts, and the spangles as if for nights out, the stiff hair, the cardigans grown over with a fungus of secondary sexual characteristics--bristling with embroidery and drooping with labial frills.
Joanna Walsh
Just because someone has cancer, it doesn't mean you stop laughing at them or making fun of them.
Tanya Masse