Quotes by Illustrators - Page 5

OUT OF THE MOUTHS OF BABESIt is a pity that we often succeed in our endeavors to deceive each other. ~Empress Irene~

Kris Waldherr

Water purling between the rocks, weed under the surface like green hair in the wind.

Mark Haddon

It ain't bragging if you've done it. There's nothing wrong with being proud of doing something well. In fact, if you intend to do something creative for a living, it's absolutely essential.[check for wording] Proper pride says, "I'm good at this." Improper pride says, "I'm better than you.

James A. Owen

You realize how much you love someone once that someone is gone…gone forever, and you are filled with regret and sadness.

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

I hold that a strongly marked personality can influence descendants for generations.

Beatrix Potter

Words are my weapons. They might kill or cure the readers, that’s out of my control.

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

Thank goodness I was never sent to school it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

Beatrix Potter

You are everything you should be, and all that is enough. Be proud of who you are, and love who you will become.” – Lady Lalaigne to Nhakira, “Chosen

Jeanine Henning Nhakira

If you think you’re good people, and if you are, how would you know? Is it something you always knew? Or was it something you found? Some people are naturally good at it […]. Is it worth trying to be something you’re not? Just because it’s right?

Jen Wang

Where do starfish come from?” asked Sam.“From the sky,” answered Stella. “Starfish are shooting stars that fell in love with the sea.”“Weren’t the stars afraid of drowning?” asked Sam.“No,” said Stella. “They all learned how to swim.

Marie-Louise Gay

Godshawk looked surprised, the way that people generally do when you ask them philosophical questions in shrubberies in the middle of the night.

Philip Reeve

A domesticated man makes my lady parts beep!

Tanya Masse

As I look out at all of you gathered here, I want to say that I don't see a room full of Parisians in top hats and diamonds and silk dresses. I don't see bankers and housewives and store clerks. No. I address you all tonight as you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers.

Brian Selznick

Why are you trying so hard to fit in when you were born to stand out?

Ian Wallace

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

This is stupid. Very, very stupid. I don't even have a tear-stained dog to wave bye to me. But I told everyone I was gonna do this, so I gotta do it... or I will be living a life of feminist-sounding somedays. And I will be more responsible, powerful, and amazing afterward. I will be able to do anything and not self-consciously stare at elevator numbers when the doors close. I will look the other person in right the eye and nod hello.

Erika Lopez

Some necrophobes earn their own fates.

David S.E. Zapanta

The pain of dying will surely be nothing, for the pain of love is so much stronger and agonizing.

Marilena Mexi

If one asks for success and prepares for failure he will get the situation he has prepared for.

Florence Scovel Shinn

There has never been any art or literature without drink and there never will be....Unless something is done about the matter [prohibition] this country is going to the dogs. There has been no development in our art or literature for 30 or 40 years.

Joseph Pennell

I don’t need a personal trainer… I need someone to stalk me and threaten to kick my ass when I eat and drink stuff I’m not supposed to!

Tanya Masse

It’s called the Pyxis,” said Raven. “Don’t let the fancy name intimidate you. It just means ‘box’ in one of those Old Earth languages, Roman or Spanish or Klingon…

Philip Reeve

Homeopathy is the only non-violent health care system

Ron Harris

If a picture is worth a thousand words, why did God invent captions?

David Mellonie

Most things look better from a distance...And as a matter of fact, so do most people. - The Spook, pg 435

Joseph Delaney

There was less than I’d expected in the rainy-day fund that Mom had kept in the bottom of an underwear drawer in a panty hose egg labeled ‘DEAD SPIDERS.’ As if I hadn’t always known it was there. As if I wouldn’t want to look at dead spiders.

Adam Rex

Isn't that the only way to curate a life? To live among things that make you gasp with delight?

Maira Kalman

Death has no repeal. It is a brute ending that leaves us the legacy of an inscrutable silence. Therefore, I understand the voice of mercy very well.

Janny Wurts

The pressures and penalties of existence in the modern capitalist system are intense; and they are penalties not for what is consciously chosen, but for ways of life which are forced like strait-jackets on people. At its superficial level, there is a common feeling of being conned by mass communications, extorted by commerce, lied to by politicians and treated like dirt by bureaucrats.

Robert Barltrop

Me, I trust people who show you what freaks they are. It's the ones who blend in that ya gotta watch out for.

Hope Larson

there are NO rules, merely suggestions

Keri Smith

K.I.S.SKeep. It. Simple. Stupid.

Laura Lee Gulledge

Malander had an idea and was trying to work it out, but it would take him time. Sometimes people never saw things clearly until it was too late and they no longer had the strength to start again. Or else they forgot their idea along the way and didn't even realise that they forgotten.

Tove Jansson

Not belonging is a terrible feeling. It feels awkward and it hurts, as if you were wearing someone else's shoes.

Phoebe Stone

The nature of power is such that it can never be understood.

Lesley Howarth

But suddenly, Pentunia spied the Book. The firecrackers had blown it open so that the pages showed. She had never seen them before. Now she saw that there was something written inside the Book which she could not read. So she sat down and thought and thought and thought, until at last she sighed, 'Now I understand. It was not enough to carry wisdom under my wing. I must put it in my mind and in my heart. And to do that I must learn to read.

Roger Duvoisin

Really good films don't diminish anything, they don't close things off. On the contrary, they open up new insights, they make new thoughts thinkable. They crowd us, they deflate our slovenly lifestyle, our thoughtless way of chattering and pissing away our time and energy and passion. Believe me, films can teach us a huge amount. And they give us a true picture of the way life is."Mari laughed. "Of our slovenly lifestyle, you mean? You mean, maybe they teach us to piss our lives away with a little more intelligence, a little more elegance?

Tove Jansson

I knew then that I wanted to go home, but I had no home to go to--and that is what adventures are all about.

Trina Schart Hyman

What does it matter if the world is bright and sunny, when it's dark and silent right where it matters most?

Kim Dong Hwa

If seeing her an hour before her lastWeak cough into all blackness I could yetBe held by chalk-white

Mervyn Peake

You won't know the meaning of success without knowing how it feels to fail.

Kazu Kibuishi

Sejal had not thought of her home, or of India as a whole, as cool. She was dimly aware, however, of a white Westerner habit of wearing other cultures like T-shirts—the sticker bindis on club kids, sindoor in the hair of an unmarried pop star, Hindi characters inked carelessly on tight tank tops and pale flesh. She knew Americans liked to flash a little Indian or Japanese or African. They were always looking for a little pepper to put in their dish.

Adam Rex

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

That was the problem, wasn't it? You left home. But you never did become an adult. Not really. You just fucked up in different and more complicated ways.

Mark Haddon

The sooner the rebirth, the prettier the corpse.

David S.E. Zapanta

practice makes better

Brian Lies

Self-pity is the hens' besetting sin," remarked Mr. Payton. "Foolish fowl. How they came to achieve anything as perfect as the egg I do not know! I cannot fathom.

Elizabeth Enright

Women were different, no doubt about it. Men broke so much more quickly. Grief didn't break women. Instead it wore them down, it hollowed them out very slowly.

Cornelia Funke

I'm not exactly Miss Confidence. I busy myself with all kinds of activities and I do well in school and I try to look pretty but I still need someone to tell me I'm worthwhile. To show me attention. I don't like it. I don't like it at all...

Stephen Emond

That is a terrible plan.""Hiccup's plans are always t-terrible.""Hey! You're still here, aren't you?

Cressida Cowell

It wasn't that I stopped caring about life, but that I've stopped being able to care.

Ruby Elliot

The first week of August hangs at the very top of summer, the top of the live-long year, like the highest seat of a Ferris wheel when it pauses in its turning. The weeks that come before are only a climb from balmy spring, and those that follow a drop to the chill of autumn, but the first week of August is motionless, and hot. It is curiously silent, too, with blank white dawns and glaring noons, and sunsets smeared with too much color.

Natalie Babbitt

YOU R sO bRUEtifUL...how R U so BRUTEfUL and good?

Allie Brosh

I think people believe in heaven because they don't like the idea of dying, because they want to carry on living and they don't like the idea that other people will move into their house and put their things into the rubbish.

Mark Haddon

Harriet pushed her hair back and looked at him seriously. 'Sport, what are you going to be when you grow up?''You know what. You know I'm going to be a ball player.''Well, I'm going to be a writer. And when I say that's a mountain, that's a mountain.' Satisfied, she turned back to her town.

Louise Fitzhugh

People can be tough as hell. They can go through some really heavy stuff... with a genuine smile...

Adam Scythe

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

Some things we must learn through experience. That is how one truly lives.

Tony DiTerlizzi

Why do I always listen to your insane plans? Why aren't we at home watching TV like everyone else? What possible difference will any of this make?

Shaun Tan

Never get old. It's a ridiculously uncomfortable process Ath Creator should be made to find a cure for.

Janny Wurts

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