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We don't need to illustrate music; music illustrates itself. -- Twyla Tharp
I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions. -- Rachel Corrie
Good men are the stars, the planets of the ages wherein they live, and illustrate the times. -- Ben Jonson
The artist does not illustrate science (but) he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does. -- Lewis Mumford
To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun. -- Robert Burton
The author knows just what he wants to illustrate and how he would like it to be done. -- Louis Leakey
I tell everyone I interact with what I'm working on and let them bring me anecdotes that illustrate my themes. -- Chuck Palahniuk
Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience. -- Thomas Perry
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. -- David Ogilvy
The Queen's wedding dress in 1947, there was some embroidery on the train which was definitely there to illustrate new dawn/post-war optimism, that sort of thing. -- Kate Reardon
I used to draw and illustrate, but I don't do that anymore because I just like to write. I like to leave the illustrations to actual professional illustrators. -- Meg Cabot
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. -- Gregory Bateson
I don't think of myself as an illustrator. I think of myself as a cartoonist. I write the story with pictures - I don't illustrate the story with the pictures. -- Chris Ware
I started as a writer for magazines, and soon they asked me to illustrate my stories. I started from the bottom of the bottom. And I climbed the stairs, one by one. -- Carine Roitfeld
Occasionally projects just take off unexpectedly, sometimes you can work away at sketches and ideas for years before they are published. There are a number of authors I would be eager to illustrate. -- John Howe
I know as a child, I was really interested in becoming a manga artist, to create my own stories and illustrate them and present something that people would be interested in reading and looking at as well. -- Shigeru Miyamoto
January is always a good month for behavioral economics: Few things illustrate self-control as vividly as New Year's resolutions. February is even better, though, because it lets us study why so many of those resolutions are broken. -- Sendhil Mullainathan
I have been doodling since childhood. I have a passion for illustrating but cannot paint or colour for that matter. I illustrate what I am trying to communicate through my writing. My images are like drawings in a science text book. -- Devdutt Pattanaik
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. -- Florenz Ziegfeld
'The Chicken Soup for the Soul' books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches. The first book contains all of the stories that I used in my seminars to illustrate the points that I wanted to make. -- Jack Canfield
When I teach the formal curriculum, I have the chance to think about it ahead of time. I can rehearse it. I can illustrate it with self-deprecating humor and humble-sounding personal disclosure. I can try to make it comes out just right. -- John Ortberg
I walked out of Spielberg's 'Lincoln' having such a thirst for more. It used such a microscopic albeit enormous event in American history. It used such a small piece of his presidency to illustrate him as a president through the lens of that event. -- Jesse Johnson
I cannot illustrate huge differences between male and female spiritualities except in their starting points, style and fascinations along the way. This is significant, however, and has huge pastoral implications: men must be challenged in the world of doing; women must be challenged in the world of relating. -- Richard Rohr
People accuse me of being Methody, but I'm not at all. The one thing I don't want people to see is me. I don't want them to be able to recognize my faults and failures and qualities, and I won't use those things to spark off emotions or to illustrate. -- Kristin Scott Thomas
An example I often use to illustrate the reality of vanity, is this: look at the peacock; it's beautiful if you look at it from the front. But if you look at it from behind, you discover the truth... Whoever gives in to such self-absorbed vanity has huge misery hiding inside them. -- Pope Francis
Taking dishes straight off the restaurant's menu and putting them into a cookbook doesn't work, because as a chef you have your own vision of what your food is, but you can't always explain it. Or you can't pick recipes that best illustrate who and where you are and what you're doing. And if the recipes don't work, you don't have a book. -- Marcus Samuelsson
I used my pants to illustrate. -- Mike Singletary
I want to express my feelings, not illustrate them. -- Jackson Pollock
I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. -- Jackson Pollock
Never invest in any idea you can't illustrate with a crayon -- Peter Lynch
Never buy anything that you can't illustrate on the back of a napkin. -- Peter Lynch
French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well. -- Edward Sapir
Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic. -- Agatha Christie
Your trials and difficulties are a golden opportunity to illustrate your faith in God. -- Elizabeth George
Dwell not on the past. Use it to illustrate a point, then leave it behind. -- Eileen Caddy
I look for ambiguous messages to illustrate...I like some detail but not too much detail. -- Sophie Blackall
How long a book tends to illustrate depends on the book. The Awful Aunty took me 10 days. -- Tony Ross
Yet I shall temper so Justice with mercy, as may illustrate most Them fully satisfy'd, and thee appease. -- John Milton
At twilight, nature is not without loveliness, though perhaps its chief use is to illustrate quotations from the poets. -- Oscar Wilde
As elite attitudes towards public education over time illustrate, simple formulas are far from adequate. There are conflicting tendencies. -- Noam Chomsky
The fact that I have been successful merely means that I can write and illustrate in my own way. -- Hugh Lofting
You must never tell a thing. You must illustrate it. We learn through the eye and not the noggin. -- Will Rogers
I never got a pass mark in math ... Just imagine - mathematicians now use my prints to illustrate their books. -- M. C. Escher
Of metaphors, those generally conduce most to energy or vivacity of style which illustrate an intellectual by a sensible object. -- Richard Whately
What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence. -- Confucius
For some time its been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it. -- Dario Fo
A word says more than a thousand images. Exercises for the visually inclined: illustrate "appreciation", "humor", "software", "education", "inalienable rights", "elegance", "fact". -- Erik Naggum
I started writing books for children because I could illustrate them myself and because, in my innocence, I thought they'd be easier. -- Mark Haddon
I feel that what you should illustrate is the space between the words. It's the betweenness, the otherness, that gives depth and dimension. -- Brian Froud
Your business as a writer is not to illustrate virtue but to show how a fellow may move toward it or away from it. -- Robert Penn Warren
My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as my full-time job. -- Jarrett J. Krosoczka
If you can't illustrate 'it', 'it' doens't belong in Physics as a noun! You can't put an article in front. You can't put a verb after! -- Bill Gaede
I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story. -- Thomas Hardy
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. -- Louis Leakey
A wide range of quotations are necessary for the repertoire of a well-rounded speaker. Quotations are able to illustrate in a few words what is difficult to explain in many. -- Carolyn Warner
It's really important to me to show the interconnectedness of things. I always try to illustrate how environmentalism, humanitarianism, animal rights - all those things - are one and the same. -- Daryl Hannah
The grand old Book of God still stands; and this old earth, the more its leaves are turned over and pondered, the more it will sustain and illustrate the Sacred word. -- James Dwight Dana
Most tasks and tests will demand recall of isolated pieces of information, and I will not have to show how concepts and ideas are related or how facts illustrate underlying principles. -- Joseph Barrell
In all God's providences, it is good to compare His word and His works together; for we shall find a beautiful harmony between them, and that they mutually illustrate each other. -- Matthew Henry
The history of any private family, however humble, could it be fully related for five or six generations, would illustrate the state and progress of society better than the most elaborate dissertation. -- Robert Southey
The fate of the worm refutes the pretended ethical teaching of the proverb, which assumes to illustrate the advantage of early rising and does so by showing how extremely dangerous it is. -- Thomas Bailey Aldrich
Who doesn't want to draw Batman or Superman? Everyone would like to be able to draw them. I've been really lucky when it comes to the characters that I get to illustrate. -- Lee Bermejo
To reason from analogy is often dangerous, but to illustrate by a fanciful analogy is sometimes a means by which we light an idea, as it were, into the understanding of another. -- Anna Brownell Jameson
A method of painting is a natural growth out of a need. I want to express my feelings rather than illustrate them. Technique is just a means of arriving at a statement. -- Jackson Pollock
I have to decide whether I'm just laying down a groove, kind of a bed and canvas for the lyrics and music to live on, or trying to illustrate something in the lyrics. -- Glenn Kotche
You're always working at the margin of what you don't understand, that's the only exhilarating place to be. To just illustrate what you already know is condescending, and a waste of your time. -- Emmet Gowin
As the histories of ancient and modern democracies illustrate, the pressure of political movement in times of war, civil commotion, or general anxiety pushes in the direction of authority, not away from it. -- Robert Heilbroner
I've been among their critics [MBA programs]. Much of what I've seen in business schools is quite non-rigorous. Anecdotal histories are stretched to illustrate favored slogans. Evidence of their effectiveness is similarly anecdotal. -- Charles R. Morris
Character issues such as drug abuse are not exclusive to Detroit Public Schools. My reference to substance abuse, not intended to focus on any particular school district, was simply used to illustrate this position. -- Kwame Kilpatrick
The artist does not illustrate science; ... [but] he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does, and expresses by a visual synthesis what the scientist converts into analytical formulae or experimental demonstrations. -- Lewis Mumford
I have a hard time writing, and I usually have to put a timer at my desk and put it on for an hour. But I love to illustrate, and I can hardly stop myself. -- Jan Brett
Violence is inevitable in crime novels, but there are many different ways to tell a story. I use my characters' reactions to illustrate the worst moments rather than let readers witness them at first hand. -- Michael Robotham

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