Drawn

Famous quotes containing the word drawn:

“I don’t believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.”
—Charlie Chaplin (1889–1977)

“It has lately been drawn to your correspondent’s attention that, at social gatherings, she is not the human magnet she would be. Indeed, it turns out that as a source of entertainment, conviviality, and good fun, she ranks somewhere between a sprig of parsley and a single ice- skate. It would appear, from the actions of the assembled guests, that she is about as hot company as a night nurse.”
—Dorothy Parker (1893–1967)

“Yet, rather, are we scabbards to our souls. And the drawn sword of genius is more glittering than the drawn cimeter of Saladin.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)