Brushes Quotes

Every brush stroke has a certain tension, a certain nervousness. Every brush stroke is, in a sense, some kind of an accident.

Damn words; they're just the pots and pans of life, the pails and scrubbing-brushes. I wish I didn't have to think in words.

Promoting his new book, President Bush visited the headquarters of Facebook. Unfortunately, he spent the whole visit on Farmville, clearing brush.

Look for your brushes with the divine. Be receptive to them. When heaven knocks, open the door. Value these visits. Remember them. Expect more of them.

As an actor, most of the time, you only have so much say in how, what and where things go. As a director, you really get to paint a bigger picture. You have many more brushes to use.

He specializes in virgins! The brush of his fingertips turns virgins into slobbering mush." Mary Lou Molnar

I'm unhappy as Dylan Thomas was, because I'm not, but I've had my brushes with sadness.

The painter paints his brushes black, Through the canvas runs a crack, Portrait of the pain never answers back...

I merely feel emptyness. A hollow of dead brush where flowers use to bloom.

You can't beat everyone up all the time with the same brush

Failure to plan brings barrenness and sterility. Fate brushes man with its wings, but we make our own fate largely.

Our fans have been branded with the same brush.

In the brush doing what it is doing, it will stumble on what one could not do by oneself.

I'm not attacking liberals with a broad brush.

... We brush aside all scales not our own, as if they were follies or delusions.

I need to brush my teeth. And I need a shower." He grinned, hopping off the bike. "Now that is an invitation.

Jesus will brush aside your inabilities.

I was clinically depressed. I was paranoid. I was agoraphobic. I would have days at a time of not being able to even bathe or brush my teeth.

She still felt his gaze on her like the brush of a finger across the back of her neck, making her shiver.

Turn the damn tap off when you brush your teeth - Aargh!

I don't use a lint brush or anything, and I don't iron, but I could easily pick lint off of someone else.

The approach to "building" a story with words and phrases is no different than "building" a painting with brushes and pigments.

I collect words and phrases for naming the children of my brush.

Rhetoric paints with a broad brush.

The adventurer in me felt obliged to testify with a quicker instrument than a brush to the scars of the world.

Weakness is a better teacher than strength. Weakness must learn to understand the obstacles that strength brushes aside.

The more you paint the more fluent you are with your brush.

Two people see each across a room or their skin brushes. Their souls recognize the person as their own. It doesn't need time to figure it. The soul always knows... whether it's right or wrong.

My brushes, my cameras, and my willingness to use them.

Its far easier to brush off death if the death in question seems impossible or improbable as a personal threat.

If you cut a painter's hands off, he'd still feel the urge to pick up a brush.

My whole philosophy in survival is to take down brush as soon as you get in a situation.

In a way records are like paintings. Instead of using paints and brushes we use sounds and instruments.

When you brush your teeth, I'll squeeze the toothpaste.

Everytime he brushes me with his fingers, time seems to tether for a second, like it is in danger of dissolving. The whole world is dissolving, I decide, except for us. Us.

There was something soothing about the crackle of paper, the smell of ink, and the soft scratching of nibs and brushes.