The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear.
~By Edward F. Halifax ~
What Tim does is, he calls me and sends me the script. And then he sends me a drawing, an illustration of his image of me as the character. It's so great.
~By Danny DeVito ~
Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues.
~By Esther Williams ~
The image is more than an idea. It is a vortex or cluster of fused ideas and is endowed with energy.
~By Ezra Pound ~
The wonders of the Grand Canyon cannot be adequately represented in symbols of speech, nor by speech itself. The resources of the graphic art are taxed beyond their powers in attempting to portray its features. Language and illustration combined must fail.
~By John Wesley Powell ~
Knowledge may give weight, but accomplishments give luster, and many more people see than weigh.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
For me archaeology is not a source of illustrations for written texts, but an independent source of historical information, with no less value and importance, sometimes more importance, that the written sources.
~By Michael I. Rostovtzeff ~
I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier.
~By Mark Haddon ~
Open a magazine from the 1930s and '40s and look at the illustrations in it. There's nobody alive that could touch the way they could draw back then.
~By John Kricfalusi ~
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal.
~By Pope Paul VI ~
My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value.
~By Lance Loud ~
An illustration I use to get people to understand it is this: I'll ask major corporate audiences: Why don't you just take all your traditional beliefs about organizations, and apply them to the neurons in your brain?
~By Dee Hock ~
The generic Canadian style of illustration is different from the generic American style.
~By John Kricfalusi ~
Egypt, the Egypt of antiquity, at a later time, exercised a mysterious fascination over me. I recognized a picture of it immediately, without hesitation and astonishment, in an illustrated magazine.
~By Pierre Loti ~
The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.
~By Hugh Lofting ~
If you only do little clusters - three or four songs by one, and another, and then yet another - you lose the opportunity to think your way into the composer's mind, since, after all, most of these pieces are quite brief.
~By Dietrich Fischer Dieskau ~
There have been many different artists that have been inspirational. I suppose the question is directed to what was the reason why I went into fantasy illustration.
~By Boris Vallejo ~
The love of domination and an uncontrolled lust of arbitrary power have prevailed among all nations and perhaps in proportion to the degrees of civilization.
~By Mercy Otis Warren ~
On receiving from the people the sacred trust twice confided on my illustrious predecessor, and which he has discharged so faithfully and so well, I know that I can not expect to perform the arduous task with equal ability and success.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.
~By Rick Moody ~
The modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
~By Jackson Pollock ~
A bit of lusting after someone does wonders for the skin.
~By Elizabeth Hurley ~
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
There is a harmony in autumn, and a luster in its sky, which through the summer is not heard or seen, as if it could not be, as if it had not been!
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
As a theoretical physicist, I feel at once proud and humble at the thought of the illustrious figures that have preceded me here to receive the greatest of all honors in science, the Nobel prize.
~By Murray Gell Mann ~
The Architect is just one of a series of works which examine the confrontation of innocence and experience, illustrating the complex ethics of power that exist between reader and writer, critic and artist, the human and the divine.
~By John Scott ~
Beslan, where the Russian authorities stopped live coverage of the school being stormed, was an illustration of the progress we still have to make.
~By Kate Adie ~
It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.
~By Joseph Addison ~
This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made prominent, and, after a fashion familiar. I must state it in my own way, although one in vain seeks to attain novelty in illustrating so frequently described a view.
~By Josiah Royce ~
Neither do thou lust after that tawny weed tobacco.
~By Ben Jonson ~
The Nixon years were trying. They honed my judgment for everything I did later on. The experience also illustrated for me the importance of training young lawyers properly.
~By Fred F. Fielding ~
That's something I learned in art school. I studied graphic design in Germany, and my professor emphasized the responsibility that designers and illustrators have towards the people they create things for.
~By Eric Carle ~
In my opinion, he only may be truly said to live and enjoy his being who is engaged in some laudable pursuit, and acquires a name by some illustrious action, or useful art.
~By Sallust ~
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
~By James M. Barrie ~
My own view would be to let Saddam bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants. As long as he behaves himself within his own borders, we should not be addressing any attack or resources against him.
~By Dick Armey ~
Do not ever say that the desire to "do good" by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.
~By Ayn Rand ~
There is no better illustration of that crisis than the fact that the president is openly violating our nation's laws by authorizing the NSA to engage in warrantless surveillance of U.S. citizens.
~By John Conyers ~
My illustrious lordship, I'll show you what a woman can do.
~By Artemisia Gentileschi ~
Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.
~By John Kricfalusi ~
The flesh endures the storms of the present alone; the mind, those of the past and future as well as the present. Gluttony is a lust of the mind.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
To be awarded a prize which takes its name from an illustrious Dutchman who at the same time was a great citizen of Europe and through his writings did so much to open up our modern world of sensibility and thought is indeed a most signal honour.
~By John G. D. Clark ~
That difficult place to put your finger on about the world - it needs to be illustrated.
~By Elisabeth Rohm ~
Love begins with an image; lust with a sensation.
~By Mason Cooley ~
That was in the days when everyone rode a bicycle, and the journal had a circulation of over one hundred and twenty-five thousand weekly, so my verses and illustrations became known to a fairly large public.
~By Joseph C. Lincoln ~
What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
~By Billy Wilder ~
Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
~By John Lahr ~
The soul is placed in the body like a rough diamond, and must be polished, or the luster of it will never appear.
~By Daniel Defoe ~
Learning should be a joy and full of excitement. It is life's greatest adventure; it is an illustrated excursion into the minds of the noble and the learned.
~By Taylor Caldwell ~
I saw no African people in the printed and illustrated Sunday school lessons. I began to suspect at this early age that someone had distorted the image of my people. My long search for the true history of African people the world over began.
~By John Henrik Clarke ~
The main thing is healthy eating, exercise, which I do for special events, like if it's Sports Illustrated, or the swim suit catalogue for Victoria's Secret, or my own calendar that I did for the year 2000.
~By Heidi Klum ~
The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
~By William Hazlitt ~
As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator.
~By Robert T. Bakker ~
Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
~By John Webster ~
It is a monstrous thing that I will say, but I will say it all the same: I find in many things more restraint and order in my morals than in my opinions, and my lust less depraved than my reason.
~By Michel de Montaigne ~
There is a lust in man no charm can tame: Of loudly publishing his neighbor's shame: On eagles wings immortal scandals fly, while virtuous actions are born and die.
~By William Harvey ~
When you feel a connection, a gut connection, a heart connection, it's a very special thing. What's familiar to everyone is watching people falling in love; it doesn't happen on screen that often. People fall in lust, then they're suddenly together.
~By Alfre Woodard ~
The month of May was come, when every lusty heart beginneth to blossom, and to bring forth fruit.
~By Thomas Malory ~
I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.
~By Max Cannon ~
To illustrate to the Indians the advantages the white race had in the telephone I divided a body of warriors from Sitting Bull's camp into two parties and had them talk to each other over the telephone line.
~By Nelson A. Miles ~
Lust is to the other passions what the nervous fluid is to life; it supports them all, lends strength to them all ambition, cruelty, avarice, revenge, are all founded on lust.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular "ism," but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence.
~By John Metcalf ~
Variety, multiplicity are the two most powerful vehicles of lust.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
For a while I was on the cover of every Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue, which was regarded as the pinnacle of success in America.
~By Elle Macpherson ~
Today's tax cuts provide yet another illustration of the Republicans' fiscally irresponsible economic policies that ignore the needs of America's middle class, students, and working families.
~By Ellen Tauscher ~
The lust of avarice as so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth.
~By Pliny the Elder ~
The basis of tragedy is man's helplessness against disease, war and death; the basis of comedy is man's helplessness against vanity (the vanity of love, greed, lust, power).
~By Dawn Powell ~
In other words the pictures are in a kind of relationship with each other which is touching only at points rather than pictures being illustrations of poems or poems extrapolations of the pictures.
~By Peter Porter ~
The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.
~By Louis Leakey ~
I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.
~By Freddie Mercury ~
Interesting phenomena occur when two or more rhythmic patterns are combined, and these phenomena illustrate very aptly the enrichment of information that occurs when one description is combined with another.
~By Gregory Bateson ~
The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.
~By Brad Holland ~
A wisely chosen illustration is almost essential to fasten the truth upon the ordinary mind, and no teacher can afford to neglect this part of his preparation.
~By Howard Crosby ~
Only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.
~By E. M. Forster ~
French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.
~By Edward Sapir ~
If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.
~By Camille Paglia ~
In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.
~By Terence Stamp ~
The most violent appetites in all creatures are lust and hunger; the first is a perpetual call upon them to propagate their kind, the latter to preserve themselves.
~By Joseph Addison ~
Love grows. Lust wastes by Enjoyment, and the Reason is, that one springs from an Union of Souls, and the other from an Union of Sense.
~By William Penn ~
The keener the want the lustier the growth.
~By Wendell Phillips ~
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
~By Karl Kraus ~
No, what I should really like to do right now, in the full blaze of lights, before this illustrious assembly, is to shower every one of you with gifts, with flowers, with offerings of poetry - to be young once more, to ride on the crest of the wave.
~By Knut Hamsun ~
Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.
~By Bill Sienkiewicz ~
It is love rather than sexual lust or unbridled sexuality if, in addition to the need or want involved, there is also some impulse to give pleasure to the persons thus loved and not merely to use them for our own selfish pleasure.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
I have been further enlightened by the conversation and correspondence of some illustrious Italians, whom I would gladly name, were I not afraid of exposing them to danger.
~By Edmond About ~
Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.
~By Ira Levin ~
The lust for comfort, that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest, and then becomes a host, and then a master.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.
~By Marsha Norman ~
I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
~By Aleister Crowley ~
It was actually a very nice little book done by a gift book company. They illustrated it with pictures from 1920s football, before there were face guards.
~By Gregg Easterbrook ~
In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.
~By Tori Amos ~
A fascist is one whose lust for money or power is combined with such an intensity of intolerance toward those of other races, parties, classes, religions, cultures, regions or nations as to make him ruthless in his use of deceit or violence to attain his ends.
~By Henry A. Wallace ~
Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
~By Abu Bakr ~
Yet, it ought to be obvious that good music generally occupies a higher plane that mere politics. Great writers can express moods through melody and capture experiences we share most powerfully - love, lust, longing; joy, rage, fear; triumph, yearning and confusion.
~By Tony Snow ~
You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one.
~By Jacques Roumain ~
For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial in advanced life, like beans to a horse, whose common ordinary food is hay and corn.
~By William Banting ~
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