Quotes by Illustrators

Even as individuals become families and families become communities, and communities become nations, so eventually must the nations draw together in peace.
Marjorie Watts
I cried because I was so beautiful.
Victoria Kann
Stay positive, stay strong, stay together and just keep going!
Tanya Masse
Love and laughter are two of the most important universal cancer treatments on the planet. Overdose on them.
Tanya Masse
Cancer is WAY too serious to be taken seriously all the time.
Tanya Masse
Just because someone has cancer, it doesn't mean you stop laughing at them or making fun of them.
Tanya Masse
How was I to be a scientist, father Lion?' Science is knowing. What could I have known? Others always did the knowing, knew what was in me, what should come out of me, what was best for me. I didn't know who I was, what I wanted. I know less now, and I am afraid.
Russell Hoban
Damp veils of mist swirled around them. They were dreadfully cold (Moomintroll thought longingly of his woolly trousers) and surrounded completely by an awful floating emptiness."I always thought clouds were soft and woolly and nice to be in," said Sniff, sneezing. "Ugh! I'm beginning to be sorry I ever came on this expedition.
Tove Jansson
I am tired and drunk and still hungry. He is full of steak and Coca-Cola and, presumably, energy: enough energy to cross the road and walk up the steps inside the tower of the cathedral, which I have never entered.
Joanna Walsh
Sneaky and underhanded, the Federal Reserve has been sucking the life blood out of the United States since 1913. Like a black widow spider, it weaves a web of corruption and deceit. Unknown to its prey, the FED's bite is poisonous, deep, long-lasting and brings financial upheaval and misery to Americans.
Jim McCarthy
Writing is a team sport.
Chris White
Travel became distinguishable from pain and began to be regarded as an intellectual pleasur...These factors--the voluntariness of departure, the freedom implicit in the indeterminancies of mobility, the pleasure of travel free from necessity, the notion that travel signifies autonomy and is a means for demonstrating what one 'really' is independent of one context or set of defining associations--remain the characteristics of the modern conception of travel.Eric Leed
Robin Jarvis
The boy planted his hands on his hips and a broad smile lit his face. "My name's Peter. Can I play too?
Brom
Monsters always make more trouble before they die.
Melinda Gebbie
The strange thing arched its serpentine body to bring its head closer to the bear, all of its many eyes staring straight at him with alien curiosity. The thing looked at the bear. The bear looked at the thing."Oh well," said the bear. "Made a plan. Better stick to it, I suppose." And with that, mallet in paw, he leaped form the boat.
Dave Shelton
Once I was a scuba diver in the sea of words. Now I zip along the surface like a guy on a Jet Ski.
Guy Billout
She had expressed herself, as women will, in a smug broadside of pastel shades. Nothing clashed because nothing had the strength to clash; everything murmured of safety among the hues; all was refinement.
Mervyn Peake
And Peter laughed, and when he did, all the Devils grinned, because Peter's laugh was a most contagious thing.
Brom
I could hear it from far away, that sound which only very big cities can produce: a sound consisting of all sounds rolled into one: the hum of voices and the cries of animals, bells ringing and the chink of coins, children's laughter and hammers beating metal, knives and forks clattering and a thousand doors slamming - the grandiose sound of life, of birth and death, itself.
Walter Moers
Only the young die good.
Oliver Herford
Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God and so there's no room left for worry thoughts.
Howard Chandler Christy
Many hands make light work.
William Patten
Man can only receive what he sees himself receiving.
Florence Scovel Shinn
There must be more to life than having everything!
Maurice Sendak
It is impossible in our condition of Society not to be sometimes a Snob.
William Thackeray
Kill the snake of doubt in your soul crush the worms of fear in your heart and mountains will move out of your way.
Kate Seredy
Those lose least who have least to lose.
Rose O'Neil
It is to the middle class we must look for the safety of England.
William Thackeray
A good problem statement often includes: (a) what is known (b) what is unknown and (c) what is sought.
Edward Hodnett
We lie to God in prayer if we do not rely on him afterwards.
Robert Leighton
If one asks for success and prepares for failure he will get the situation he has prepared for.
Florence Scovel Shinn
Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good behave yourself and never mind the rest.
Beatrix Potter
Who is the dark horse he has in his stable?
William Thackeray
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Oliver Herford
There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can't stand Picasso those who can't stand Raphael and those who've never heard of either of them.
John White
What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
John Howe
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat.
Edward Lear
Every great work every big accomplishment has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision and often just before the big achievement comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Florence Scovel Shinn
It is to the middle class we must look for the safety of England.
William Thackeray
A good problem statement often includes: (a) what is known (b) what is unknown and (c) what is sought.
Edward Hodnett
We lie to God in prayer if we do not rely on him afterwards.
Robert Leighton
If one asks for success and prepares for failure he will get the situation he has prepared for.
Florence Scovel Shinn
Believe there is a great power silently working all things for good behave yourself and never mind the rest.
Beatrix Potter
Who is the dark horse he has in his stable?
William Thackeray
Modesty: the gentle art of enhancing your charm by pretending not to be aware of it.
Oliver Herford
There are three kinds of people in the world: those who can't stand Picasso those who can't stand Raphael and those who've never heard of either of them.
John White
What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
John Howe
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat went to sea In a beautiful pea-green boat.
Edward Lear
Every great work every big accomplishment has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision and often just before the big achievement comes apparent failure and discouragement.
Florence Scovel Shinn
Oh the lovely fickleness of an April day!
W. H. Gibson
Tell me about yourself - your struggles your dreams your telephone number.
Peter Arno
Remember it is as easy to marry a rich woman as a poor woman.
William Thackeray
Werther had a love for Charlotte Such as words could never utter Would you know how first he met her? She was cutting bread and butter.
William Thackeray
So when you're lonely or sad or bad or blue remember where laughter's hiding . . . it's hiding inside of YOU!
David Saltzman
The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.
John Jensen
Intuition is a spiritual faculty and does not explain but simply points the way.
Florence Scovel Shinn
Giving opens the way for receiving.
Florence Scovel Shinn
Teaching is the greatest act of optimism.
Colleen Wilcox
People hate as they love unreasonably.
William Thackeray
Every morning I spend fifteen minutes filling my mind full of God and so there's no room left for worry thoughts.
Howard Chandler Christy