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 ~
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 ~
If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.
~By Christopher Meloni ~
Some wars have been due to the lust of rulers for power and glory, or to revenge to wipe out the humiliation of a former defeat.
~By John Boyd Orr ~
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 ~
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
~By Thomas Overbury ~
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 ~
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 ~
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
~By Henry James ~
Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.
~By Thomas Perry ~
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
~By Sophocles ~
One of the tragedies of modern times is that people have come to believe that something said by someone in the past, perhaps for illustrative or provocation purposes, actually represents that person's beliefs at the time.
~By Idries Shah ~
I tread in the footsteps of illustrious men... in receiving from the people the sacred trust confided to my illustrious predecessor.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
The Holocaust illustrates the consequences of prejudice, racism and stereotyping on a society. It forces us to examine the responsibilities of citizenship and confront the powerful ramifications of indifference and inaction.
~By Tim Holden ~
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 ~
There is no sinfulness in the will and affections without some error in the understanding. All lusts which a natural man lives in, are lusts of ignorance.
~By George Gillespie ~
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 ~
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 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 ~
Cartoonists are untrained artists, while illustrators are more trained.
~By John Kricfalusi ~
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 New Look of Batman is more illustrative and realistic.
~By Bob Kane ~
People never know how strong is their lust for being cheated.
~By Joe Chung ~
A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way.
~By Marcelene Cox ~
To illustrate what I mean, an apt dancer may be in thorough unison with the others in that particular group, and at the same time reveal a difference in dancing temperament, rhythm or technique; she may phrase, accentuate or actually interpret differently.
~By Florenz Ziegfeld ~
It certainly is the duty of every true Christian, to esteem himself a stranger and pilgrim in this world; and as bound to use earthly blessings, not as means of satisfying lust or gratifying wantonness, but of supplying his absolute wants and necessities.
~By Johann Arndt ~
One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
~By William Hazlitt ~
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 fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.
~By Hugh Lofting ~
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
~By A. Bartlett Giamatti ~
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 ~
Our financial services and insurance cluster is one of Delaware's key economic drivers in the state.
~By Ruth Ann Minner ~
French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.
~By Edward Sapir ~
Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
~By John Webster ~
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 ~
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 ~
We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.
~By Joseph Howe ~
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 ~
I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.
~By Hugh Lofting ~
Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
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 ~
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 ~
Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
~By John Lahr ~
I brought samples in, because I didn't have any comic book samples, and I brought all these illustrations that I had influenced by Norman Rockwell and a couple of the other big boys. That's all I had, that's all I brought.
~By Dan DeCarlo ~
Sometimes string figures were used to illustrate stories, as in the case of an Eskimo example that depicts a man catching a salmon. Sometimes they had magic or religious significance.
~By Louis Leakey ~
I lust love to play football.
~By Ray Nitschke ~
Some manufacturers illustrate their advertisements with abstract paintings. I would only do this if I wished to conceal from the reader what I was advertising.
~By David Ogilvy ~
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
~By Ethel Waters ~
The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.
~By Galileo Galilei ~
Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike provided they can make money out of them, is to me repulsive.
~By Henry Cabot Lodge ~
Ambition is a lust that is never quenched, but grows more inflamed and madder by enjoyment.
~By Thomas Otway ~
Even if you can't draw, do a little doodle or rip an illustration from a magazine - these visuals will help bring your idea to life.
~By John Emmerling ~
Rising genius always shoots out its rays from among the clouds, but these will gradually roll away and disappear as it ascends to its steady luster.
~By Washington Irving ~
My illustrious lordship, I'll show you what a woman can do.
~By Artemisia Gentileschi ~
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 ~
There is a broad cultural current that conveys the idea that a film is like a football team, it represents a nation, it is illustrated literature, filmed radio. These are outdated concepts, totally out of touch with today's realities.
~By Jean-Jacques Annaud ~
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 ~
Men of vision. Oh, I love the fine names men give each other to hide their greed and lust for adventure.
~By Charles MacArthur ~
I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God's creation, woman, the object of our lust.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
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 ~
After that I jumped, especially being in art school, to the illustrators.
~By Bill Sienkiewicz ~
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 ~
I'm always looking, as an actor, for activities. I think it's far more interesting to watch what people do than what they say. You always want to watch behavior, because the dialogue as written by our illustrious leaders is great. Eminently playable.
~By Adam Baldwin ~
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 ~
On one level the sixties revolt was an impressive illustration of Lenin's remark that the capitalist will sell you the rope to hang him with.
~By Ellen Willis ~
It's like a candy store for an illustrator, I connected with Harry pretty quickly and loved the way J.K. described everything; she's such a visually thinking person. You can't pass that up.
~By Mary Grandpre ~
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
The more we are filled with thoughts of lust the less we find true romantic love.
~By Douglas Horton ~
He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage.
~By George Combe ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.
~By Freddie Mercury ~
You cannot eat a cluster of grapes at once, but it is very easy if you eat them one by one.
~By Jacques Roumain ~
Passing into practical life, illustrations of this fact are found everywhere; the distant, or the unseen, steadies and strengthens us against the rapid whirl of things around us.
~By Matthew Simpson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Dreams are illustrations... from the book your soul is writing about you.
~By Marsha Norman ~
I always wanted to write something illustrated, and the Details strip finally gave me the opportunity.
~By Rick Moody ~
But, after all, the aim of art is to create space - space that is not compromised by decoration or illustration, space within which the subjects of painting can live.
~By Frank Stella ~
The only people left in America who seem not to be artists are illustrators.
~By Brad Holland ~
The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work.
~By Matt Groening ~
If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.
~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
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 ~
And I like the way Cain writes his women. Very strong. They're kind of lusty, they know what they want, they're full of conviction. Cain's women are sexual.
~By Pia Zadora ~
The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done.
~By Louis Leakey ~
I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.
~By Max Cannon ~
The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.
~By William Shatner ~
The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
The capacity of the female mind for studies of the highest order cannot be doubted, having been sufficiently illustrated by its works of genius, of erudition, and of science.
~By James Madison ~
The generic Canadian style of illustration is different from the generic American style.
~By John Kricfalusi ~
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 ~
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
~By James M. Barrie ~
I've done illustration on the side. But other than that, comics have been my main things.
~By Jaime Hernandez ~
A graphic representation of data abstracted from the banks of every computer in the human system. Unthinkable complexity. Lines of light ranged in the nonspace of the mind, clusters and constellations of data. Like city lights, receding.
~By William Gibson ~
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 ~
Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.
~By William Wycherley ~
Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
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