Quotes by Illustrators - Page 26

The first premises of the Party...were two rooms above a corner junk shop, up two flights of rickety stairs. 'One felt' said a veteran member forty five years later in the Socialist Standard, that one was entering 'the heart of deep red revolution'.
Robert Barltrop
I have never found a book that stressed the importance of myself as a caretaker of my ability, of staying healthy mentally and physically, or that gave me an inkling that my courage might be strained to the utmost.
Andrew Loomis
A world without problems is an illusion, so is a world without solutions.
Gianni Sarcone
Had not enough gone wrong?
Brom
Penelope? Thank you. For not leaving me alone to deal with this . . . when things got hard. other people would have. You're a true friend.
Svetlana Chmakova
You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.
Joseph Delaney
You either see it or you don't
Brian Selznick
It me birthday and nobody came...Bigfoot decide do something nice for self for big day and sneak in they house at night and pick out own present and blow out flickering candle of life in they brains. Make a wish, jerks.
Graham Roumieu
Sometimes it takes more courage to be the passenger than to be the driver.
E.L. Konigsburg
What I love most about my home is who I share it with.
Tad Carpenter
Though this child came in with nothing but excess baby fat, chemical brain waves, and mother and son bodily toxins on his legs, he had a fate fit for a modern day demigod.
David Scheier
We three alone have the speed, skill and power to do what must be done', said Grimalkin. 'You have the Destiny Blade and Bone Cutter — in addition to the talents inherited from your mother. Alice wields powerful magic, and I am Grimalkin.
Joseph Delaney
Sweetie, you don't need to drive me to the brink of insanity... I'm close enough to walk!
Tanya Masse
Amber starts off as sap from a tree," Joseph said in the dark. "And sometimes insects get caught in it, and over millions of years the amber turns into a gemstone, but it traps the insect inside.""Oh.""A photograph is sort of like that, don't you think?
Brian Selznick
Speak for yourself. Only rank ignorance measures a man by appearances.
Janny Wurts
Melissa popped open the clattery little Rotring tin. Pencils, putty rubber, scalpel. She sharpened a 3B, letting the curly shavings fall into the wicker bin, then paused for a few seconds, finding a little place of stillness before starting to draw the flowers. Art didn't count at school because it didn't get you into law or banking or medicine. It was just a fluffy thing stuck to the side of Design and Technology, a free A level for kids who could do it, like a second language, but she loved charcoal and really good gouache, she loved rolling sticky black ink on to a lino plate and heaving on the big black arm of the Cope press, the quiet and those big white walls.
Mark Haddon
I'm afraid we shall waste an awful lot of time.""Don't worry," answered Snufkin, "we shall have wonderful dreams, and when we wake up it'll be spring.
Tove Jansson
But his mind saw nothing of all this. His mind was engaged in a warfare of the gods. His mind paced outwards over no-man's-land, over the fields of the slain, paced to the rhythm of the blood's red bugles. To be alone and evil! To be a god at bay. What was more absolute?
Mervyn Peake
You know, that's the trouble with drinking. Come the morning, you can never remember their names.
Janny Wurts
It doesn't count if it's from friends, right?
Svetlana Chmakova
The fountain of youth resides in our memory. You will never outlive your shadow.
Lorin Morgan-Richards
Just because I'm a murdering, thieving, cowardly, traitorous sort doesn't mean I can't do my job properly.
James A. Owen
Oh the lovely fickleness of an April day!
W. H. Gibson
There is something about my face in the mirrors that catch it. Even at a distance it will never be right again, not even to a casual glance. Beauty: it's the upkeep that costs, that's what Balzac said, not the initial investment.
Joanna Walsh
How do you survive the survivor?
Kyo Maclear
The most harmful lies and the most hurtful, always contain a grain of truth," he said. "But nevertheless, lies they do remain.
Robin Jarvis
Cat: a pygmy lion who loves mice, hates dogs, and patronizes human beings.
Oliver Herford
When we read with a child, we are doing so much more than teaching him to read or instilling in her a love of language. We are doing something that I believe is just as powerful, and it is something that we are losing as a culture: by reading with a child, we are teaching that child to be human. When we open a book, and share our voice and imagination with a child, that child learns to see the world through someone else’s eyes.
Anna Dewdney
(Running out of Night) ...is a story that respects this pivotal era of American history, a story that reveals the pain, the courage, and the hope that eventually changed the world.–Middle Shelf : Cool Reads for Kids magazine
Sharon Lovejoy
He was able to love them again, but he loved them now in a wiser way, knowing their weakness.
William Steig
Sometimes people who look different from you are scary. Maybe they are ugly. Maybe they are loud. Maybe theyare big. Maybe they are green. Maybe they are all those things. But you should not be afraid of them just because of how they look. You may find they are nice to you if you arenice to them.
Jeff Hutchins
We sit in the ruin, each reading a book, or three of us read out of four. Three different voices speak to us. We have taught the children to read again this week. Here, where there is no voice, apart from ours, they are desperate for any other. They will even sing to themselves, sometimes. The boy whistles. He makes his voice croak. He sings the same thing again, but breathing in. A bird echoes the first notes of Vivaldi.
Joanna Walsh
Life has its insidious way of crawling its way back into your sphere and you’re dumbed down again by so many distractions including work obligations, social niceties and mountains of clothes washing.
Josh Langley
I realized today that a daughter is born twice. For nine months, a mother carries and nourishes her daughter in her stomach, then gives birth to her. It's a happy occasion, but the mother is left feeling sadly empty inside...But I realized today that, after raising her within my love and embrace and sending her off in marriage, this day is just as sad and leaves me just as empty as the one when I first gave birth to
Kim Dong Hwa
Friendship depends on interlocking time, place, and state of mind.
E.L. Konigsburg