Quotes with nerve-drawn

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  • Armistead Maupin I've always drawn on bits and pieces of my own life.
    Armistead Maupin
    American writer (1944 - )
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  • Beryl Bainbridge I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.
    Beryl Bainbridge
    English writer (1932 - 2010)
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  • Berkeley Breathed If I could have drawn a cat yelling for lasagna every day for 15 years and have them pay me $30 million to do so, I would have.
    Berkeley Breathed
    American cartoonist, director and screenwriter (1957 - )
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  • Karl William Kapp If there had been a computer in 1872 it would have predicted that by now there would be so many horse-drawn vehicles that the entire surface of the earth would be ten feet deep in horse manure.
    Karl William Kapp
    German-American economist (1910 - 1976)
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  • Joseph Rudyard Kipling If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew to serve your turn long after they have gone, and so hold on when there is nothing in you. Except the Will which says to them; ''Hold on!''
    Joseph Rudyard Kipling
    English writer (1865 - 1936)
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  • Les Brown If you do not develop the hunger and courage to pursue your goal, you will lose your nerve and you will give up on your dream.
    Les Brown
    American motivational speaker, author and radio DJ (1945 - )
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  • Billy Campbell If you were to ask my agent, they would confirm this: I'm drawn to locations. What really drew me to 'The 4400,' aside from the fact that it was sci-fi, was the fact that it was shot in the city of my dreams: Vancouver.
    Billy Campbell
    American film and television actor (1959 - )
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  • Christopher Morley In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty.
    Christopher Morley
    American Novelist, Journalist, Poet (1890 - 1957)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Is it a fact - or have I dreamt it - that, by means of electricity, the world of matter has become a great nerve, vibrating thousands of miles in a breathless point of time?
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Thomas Malthus It has appeared that from the inevitable laws of our nature, some human beings must suffer from want. These are the unhappy persons who, in the great lottery of life, have drawn a blank.
    An Essay on The Principle of Population (1798) X, 29, 1-15
    Thomas Malthus
    English cleric and scholar (1766 - 1834)
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  • Alan Alda Laugh at yourself, but don't ever aim your doubt at yourself. Be bold. When you embark for strange places, don't leave any of yourself safely on shore. Have the nerve to go into unexplored territory.
    Alan Alda
    American actor, director, screenwriter, and author. (1936 - )
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  • Beau Willimon Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Benjamin Haydon Men of genius are often considered superstitious, but the fact is, the fineness of their nerve renders them more alive to the supernatural than ordinary men.
    Benjamin Haydon
    British artist (1786 - 1846)
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  • Don Delillo 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.
    Don Delillo
    American Author (1936 - )
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  • Augusten Burroughs My parents had this relationship that was really terrifying. I mean, the level of hatred that they had, and the level of physical abuse - my mother would beat up my father, basically - and I think I was drawn to images on television that were bright and reflective.
    Augusten Burroughs
    American writer (1965 - )
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  • Theodore Roosevelt No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.
    Theodore Roosevelt
    American statesman (1858 - 1919)
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  • Eric Hoffer Our passionate preoccupation with the sky, the stars, and a God somewhere in outer space is a homing impulse. We are drawn back to where we came from.
    Eric Hoffer
    American writer (1902 - 1983)
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  • Bayard Taylor Pansies in soft April rains Fill their stalks with honeyed sap Drawn from Earth's prolific lap.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Carl von Clausewitz Phillipsburg was the name of one those badly drawn fortresses resembling a fool with his nose too close to the wall.
    On War (1832) Ch. 11
    Carl von Clausewitz
    Prussian general and military theorist (1780 - 1831)
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  • Daniel Webster Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that
    Daniel Webster
    American lawyer and statesman (1782 - 1852)
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