Quotes by Illustrators - Page 14

If one door closes and another door opens, chances are your house is haunted.
Tanya Masse
Ladies glisten, men perspire, horses sweat.-Early Nun Quote, The Old Ursuline Convent (1727) New Orleans, LA
Diana Hollingsworth Gessler
He said that it was very difficult to become an astronaut. I said that I knew. You had to become an officer in the air force and you had to take lots of orders and be prepared to kill other human beings, and I couldn't take orders. Also I didn't have 20/20 vision, which you needed to be a pilot.
Mark Haddon
I closed my eyes, took a deep breath, and filled myself up with the breeze from the valley. Then I let it out slow so it could get back to its travels, with a little bit of me added to it.
Katherine Hannigan
How do you survive the survivor?
Kyo Maclear
It occurs to me that if I don’t sort myself out soon I will die of meaninglessness. That is the price of avoiding the things I find troubling.
Kyo Maclear
The way to begin healing the wounds of the world is to treasure the Infant Christ in us; to be not the castle but the cradle of Christ; and, in rocking that cradle to the rhythm of love, to swing the whole world back into the beat of the Music of Eternal Life.
Caryll Houselander
Take it from an old cadaver. Let go of the past.
David S.E. Zapanta
I would never advise shooing away a good idea.
Phoebe Stone
Marry the person who gives you the same feeling you get when you take the very first sip of COFFEE in the morning!
Tanya Masse
The safe and cultural method of eating crackers in bed is to wear a diver's suit instead of pajamas.
Basil Wolverton
And all of the scientific data, statistical facts and empirical evidence can't compete with the indefinable heart's desire. For if in the end, she loves you, and she chooses you…none of the rest of this will matter.
Ruth Clampett
if something does go wrong, here is my advice... KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.
Maira Kalman
It all began with a bucket of eggs.
H.L. Stephens
Sometimes love finds you when it’s ready. And when you’re ready too. How that happens is anybody’s guess. Love is the great mystery stew, its secrets well kept, its ingredients known to providence alone. While both people are being prepared, marinated, skewered,cooked to readiness in the fires of life, the cosmic alchemist is turning the pot, reverently preparing the base for the lovers who will meld into it. Only God knows when the stew is ready to be served. Divine timing, Divine dining…
Jeff Brown
When your ship comes in, don't be in the bathroom with your pants around your ankles." quoted by Frank McNichols, father of Rose McNichols in A Nose for Hanky Panky, a Granite Cove Mystery
Sharon Love Cook
If God wanted us in the ocean, he wouldn’t have made the land.
Lauren Child
The misbegotten town of Whistlebrass is hidden away in a forgotten corner of northern Vermont like a guilty secret or a bloody knife buried under the floorboards.
Jack Keely
I don't believe in monsters.""Well, Red, I think you might want to start." Pike turned and looked him in the eye. "What do you think those green things were? And what do you think is trying to smash its way in here? A pony?
Jack Keely
The shriek cut thinly though the drizzling dimness, holding for a long moment. At last it broadened and dropped to the old.
Natalie Babbitt
They inched through dense, heart-stopping darkness. In the distance was what looked like a bright white door cut out of a black wall. Sunni tiptoed towards it, puzzled by its brilliance.
Teresa Flavin
That’s where they found the skeletons. Right where you’re standing.
Teresa Flavin
Mom always taught me not to use the word hate. As if it were profanity.
Tedd Arnold
I'm a conundrum. Or an enigma. I forget which.
James A. Owen
Lots of things are mysteries. But that doesn't mean there isn't an answer to them. It's just that scientists haven't found the answer yet.
Mark Haddon
When the heart craved something so forcefully, then reason became nothing but helpless observer.
Cornelia Funke
I cannot rest, I must draw, however poor the result, and when I have a bad time come over me it is a stronger desire than ever.
Beatrix Potter
There are times in our lives when we labor so hard, for so long, that it may feel that we have nothing to show for it. That we have failed. We get discouraged, because we don’t achieve what we yearned for or anticipated.But a lack of desired results doesn’t mean we failed…it means we have locked our sights on the end result, instead of focusing on the process itself.No one can guarantee your success.What you can do, however, is consistently act—progressing towards your goals, so that your chances of success grows exponentially with each step you take.
Jaime Buckley
You won't know the meaning of success without knowing how it feels to fail.
Kazu Kibuishi
Me, I say too much optimism will get you killed.
Brom
-to me, the future doesn't seem real. It's just this magical place where I can put my responsibilities so that I don't have to be scared while hurtling toward failure at right hundred miles per hour.
Allie Brosh
For what is more lovable than failure?
Mervyn Peake
The master has failed more times than the beginner has even tried.
Stephen McCranie
The Suicide, as she is falling,Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appallingThe thought she will be dead so soon.
Edward Gorey
...because I went to London on my own, and because I went to solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? and I found my mother and I was brave and I wrote a book and that means I can do anything.
Mark Haddon
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
Demon or not, it didn't matter, suffering was everywhere he looked.
Brom
However, if Sir Launcelot of the Lake failed now and then in his behavior, who is there in the world shall say, 'I never fell into error'? And if he more than once offended, who is there shall have hardihood to say, 'I never committed offence'?
Howard Pyle
A beautiful face will age and a perfect body will change, but an awesome person will always be an awesome person.
Tanya Masse
Self-hatred is the best vehicle for making people do as they’re told because they are hungry to get approval.
Melinda Gebbie
Poetry doesn’t pay. But I need it. And so do you.
Cory Basil
Sometimes I come up here at night, even when I'm not fixing the clocks, just to look at the city. I like to imagine that the world is one big machine. You know, machines never have any extra parts. They have the exact number and type of parts they need. So I figure if the entire world is one big machine, I have to be here for some reason. And that means you have to be here for some reason, too.
Brian Selznick
It is enough to know, too much to see.
Sally Gardner
Enjoy the stillness, sweet snail! Savor the spring breeze while it still means something! Soon enough, like summer tempests your tears will come!
Walt Holcombe
Your effort to remain what you are is what limits you.
Masamune Shirow
During relaxation we drop our guard. Particularly in conversation. Relaxed conversation leads to openness. And in openness we often reveal what should never be revealed.
Edward Carey
There were times when it seemed the different parts of him where not all under the same management.
Russell Hoban
I fear the many faces, many personalities in me. Sometimes I fail to understand my self and become deceived by my various selves.
Ama H. Vanniarachchy
I do not wish to talk about myself because I hold very deeply the belief that what is important is the work, not the person.
Remedios Varo
In order to reach our goals we sometimes need a plan B. Other times we go all the way through to plan Z.
Jo Linsdell
Each day we live is a glass roomUntil we break it with the thrustingOf the spirit and pass throughThe splintered walls to the green pasturesWhere the birds and buds are breakingInto fabulous song and hueBy the still w
Mervyn Peake
Your mother contained a good spirit. A loving spirit. A spirit that will not cease to exist.Eva looked at him, her brows furrowed.Rovender placed his arm around Eva's shoulders. "You see, she lives within you now, in all of the lessons that she taught you. Lessons you will never forget. Lessons you will always carry with you... and will one day pass on.
Tony DiTerlizzi
I feel there's a funny little hole in me that wasn't there before, like a splinter in your finger, but this is somewhere above my stomach.
Louise Fitzhugh
Sometimes the silence is the loudest thing in the room.
Cory Basil
...companionship refused is worse than loneliness.
Mark Haddon
Clever of you, Hemul. But, on the other hand, think how lonely the Groke is because nobody likes her, and she hates everybody. The Contents is perhaps the only thing she has. Would you now take that away from her too -- lonely and rejected in the night?" Sniff became more and more affected and his voice trembled. "Cheated out of her only possession by Thingumy and Bob." He blew his nose and couldn't go on.
Tove Jansson
The Groke looked at the hat. Then she looked at Thingumy and Bob. Then she looked at the hat again. You could see that she was thinking with all her might. Then suddenly she snatched the hat and, without a word, slithered like ann icy grey shadow into the forest. It was the last time she was seen in the Valley of the Moomins, and the last they saw of the Hobgoblin's Hat, too. At once the colors became warmer again and the garden was filled with the sounds and scents of summer.
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
Lingering is so very lonely when one lingers all alone.
Mervyn Peake
I am too rich already, for my eyes mint
Mervyn Peake