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  • Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
  • At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
  • Phillipsburg was the name of one those badly drawn fortresses resembling a fool with his nose too close to the wall.
  • As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.
  • The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.
  • Men with secrets tend to be drawn to each other, not because they want to share what they know but because they need the company of the like-minded, the fellow afflicted.
  • Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.
  • I went out to Charing Cross to see Major General Harrison hanged, drawn, and quartered; which was done there, he looking as cheerful as any man could in that condition.
  • I'm drawn toward filmmakers who have a very distinctive voice. I really appreciate people who push themselves and, therefore, push the medium forward.
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  • Richard Bach Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you.
    Richard Bach
    American author (1936 - )
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  • Benjamin E. Mays ... the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
    Benjamin E. Mays
    American Baptist minister and civil rights leader (1894 - 1984)
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  • George Bernard Shaw The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • Sydney Smith A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.
    Sydney Smith
    English writer and cleric (1856 - 1934)
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  • Bruce Springsteen And whether you're drawn to gospel music or church music or honky-tonk music, it informs your character and it informs your talent.
    Bruce Springsteen
    American singer-songwriter (1949 - )
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  • Ezra Pound Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Augusten Burroughs As a child, I was never drawn toward depraved or extreme situations; I really wanted a normal little childhood. Unfortunately, that's just not what happened.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • E. M. Forster At night, when the curtains are drawn and the fire flickers, my books attain a collective dignity.
    E. M. Forster
    English novelist, short story writer, essayist and librettist (1879 - 1970)
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  • Barbara Januszkiewicz Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.
    Barbara Januszkiewicz
    American painter (1955 - )
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  • Carl Friedrich Gauss But in our opinion truths of this kind should be drawn from notions rather than from notations.
    About the proof of Wilsons theorem. Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1801)
    Carl Friedrich Gauss
    German mathematician and physicist (1777 - 1855)
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  • René Daumal Common experience is the gold reserve which confers an exchange value on the currency which words are; without this reserve of shared experiences, all our pronouncements are checks drawn on insufficient funds.
    René Daumal
    French writer, philosopher and poet (1908 - 1944)
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  • Caleb Cushing Cruel war, war at home; and in the perspective distance, a man on horseback with a drawn sword in his hand, some Atlantic Caesar, or Cromwell, or Napoleon.
    On what the impending civil strife would mean to the nation. Speech, Bangor, Maine, 11 January 1860.
    Caleb Cushing
    American Democratic politician and diplomat (1800 - 1879)
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  • Ben Foster Every job is a blessing. Everyone has to take into account what is available. Are you paying rent, who do you get to work with? There are a lot of variables in the job. What I'm drawn to is things that I don't completely understand maybe, and want to get a better feel for it.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis Every poet and musician and artist, but for Grace, is drawn away from love of the thing he tells to love of the telling till, down in Deep Hell, they cannot be interested in God at all but only in what they say about Him.
    The Great Divorce (1944)
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • R. Jefferies Except by illustrations drawn from familiair things, there is no way of indicating a new idea.
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  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, and flare up bodily, wings and all. What then? Who's sorry for a gnat or girl?
    Elizabeth Barrett Browning
    English poet (1806 - 1861)
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  • Bill Plympton Hand-drawn animation is something that I feel really strongly about. A Pixar movie may be really great, but it looks like it was drawn by a machine.
    Bill Plympton
    American animator, graphic designer and cartoonist (1946 - )
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  • Fred A. Allen Hanging is too good for a man who makes puns; he should be drawn and quoted.
    Fred A. Allen
    American comic (1894 - 1956)
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  • Harry Emerson Fosdick Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself vividly as winning and that alone will contribute immeasurably to success. Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.
    Harry Emerson Fosdick
    American minister (1878 - 1969)
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  • Miguel de Cervantes I believe there's no proverb but what is true; they are all so many sentences and maxims drawn from experience, the universal mother of sciences.
    Miguel de Cervantes
    Spanish writer and poet (1547 - 1616)
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