If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.
~By Elizabeth Bowen ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The New Look of Batman is more illustrative and realistic.
~By Bob Kane ~
It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence.
~By Edward Bok ~
The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter.
~By Dave Mustaine ~
The Bible illustrated by Dore occupied many of my hours - and I think probably gave me many nightmares.
~By Eleanor Roosevelt ~
French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well.
~By Edward Sapir ~
I make no claim to be an authority on writing or illustrating for children.
~By Hugh Lofting ~
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 ~
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 ~
We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
~By Paul Cezanne ~
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 ~
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 ~
In my youth I dreamed of being an illustrator.
~By Terence Stamp ~
He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage.
~By George Combe ~
The man who has nothing to boast of but his illustrious ancestry is like the potato - the best part under ground.
~By Thomas Overbury ~
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 ~
I was doing illustration work, and the cartooning slowly took over.
~By Max Cannon ~
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 ~
Erotic or sexual love can truly be love if it is not selfishly sexual or lustful.
~By Mortimer Adler ~
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 ~
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 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 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 ~
A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught but savage creatures, animated by vile passions and by the lust of vengeance and of hate.
~By Baroness Orczy ~
A bit of lusting after someone does wonders for the skin.
~By Elizabeth Hurley ~
Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.
~By John Lahr ~
It's become another dimension to who I am. I don't think Sports Illustrated is going to be wanting me. But who cares? I'm at a different place in my life.
~By Cindy Crawford ~
Lust's passion will be served; it demands, it militates, it tyrannizes.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
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 State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.
~By Frank Chodorov ~
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 ~
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 ~
I was lusted after walking down the streets of New York.
~By Janice Dickinson ~
I write lustily and humorously. It isn't calculated; it's the way I think. I've invented a writing style that expresses who I am.
~By Erica Jong ~
I think some of the best reporters are the ones who can really illustrate the differences between societies, at the same time trying to connect the fact that there are a lot of shared values in addition to those differences.
~By John Pomfret ~
What is character but the determination of incident? What is incident but the illustration of character?
~By Henry James ~
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 ~
We may smile at these matters, but they are melancholy illustrations.
~By Joseph Howe ~
The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.
~By William Shatner ~
Most of the important composers in our country are clustered in the Northeast.
~By Carlisle Floyd ~
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 ~
A sparkling house is a fine thing if the children aren't robbed of their luster in keeping it that way.
~By Marcelene Cox ~
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 ~
What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films.
~By Billy Wilder ~
Life magazine ran a page featuring me and three other girls that was clearly the precursor of Sports Illustrated swimsuit issues.
~By Esther Williams ~
As an undergraduate I held many small jobs as an illustrator.
~By Robert T. Bakker ~
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 ~
My illustrious lordship, I'll show you what a woman can do.
~By Artemisia Gentileschi ~
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've done illustration on the side. But other than that, comics have been my main things.
~By Jaime Hernandez ~
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 ~
Be able to draw an illustration as least well enough to get your point across to another person.
~By Marilyn vos Savant ~
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 ~
Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.
~By Ira Levin ~
An enemy to whom you show kindness becomes your friend, excepting lust, the indulgence of which increases its enmity.
~By Saadi ~
Let us all be brave enough to die the death of a martyr, but let no one lust for martyrdom.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
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 ~
He who truly believes that which prompts him to an action has looked upon the action to lust after it, he has committed it already in his heart.
~By William Kingdon Clifford ~
Though lust do masque in ne'er so strange disguise she's oft found witty, but is never wise.
~By John Webster ~
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 ~
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 ~
Perhaps as good a classification as any of the main types is that of the three lusts distinguished by traditional Christianity - the lust of knowledge, the lust of sensation, and the lust of power.
~By Irving Babbitt ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Bluster, sputter, question, cavil; but be sure your argument be intricate enough to confound the court.
~By William Wycherley ~
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 ~
I got my diploma from Ealing College of Art, in graphics and illustration.
~By Freddie Mercury ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.
~By William Hazlitt ~
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 ~
It was my care to make my life illustrious not by words more than by deeds.
~By Sophocles ~
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 modern artist is working with space and time, and expressing his feelings rather than illustrating.
~By Jackson Pollock ~
Black frost. The ground is hard, the air tastes bitter. Your stars cluster in evil signs.
~By Georg Trakl ~
Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them.
~By James M. Barrie ~
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 ~
Curiosity is the lust of the mind.
~By Thomas Hobbes ~
Some people have been kind enough to call me a fine artist. I've always called myself an illustrator. I'm not sure what the difference is. All I know is that whatever type of work I do, I try to give it my very best. Art has been my life.
~By Norman Rockwell ~
Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse, And every conqueror creates a muse.
~By Edmund Waller ~
Kafka truly illustrates the way the environment oppresses the individual. He shows how the unconscious controls our lives.
~By Manuel Puig ~
People never know how strong is their lust for being cheated.
~By Joe Chung ~
I lust love to play football.
~By Ray Nitschke ~
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 ~
At first, I see pictures of a story in my mind. Then creating the story comes from asking questions of myself. I guess you might call it the 'what if - what then' approach to writing and illustration.
~By Chris Van Allsburg ~
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 ~
The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way.
~By Hugh Lofting ~
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 ~
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