#sketched

There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work. ↗

— Jean de la Bruyere

#concludes #fame #life #much #pursuit

I sketched out a rough story for them and the director said, well it's a good story but we have the go-ahead from Universal to make this script and did I want to do it. I said no, and they left. ↗

— Ellen Burstyn

#director #go-ahead #good #good story #i

I've met and sketched most of the great athletes from the past five decades and their movement, grace and energy have kept me captivated over the years. That's what the ancient Greeks first saw and that's what caught my interest. ↗

— LeRoy Neiman

#ancient greeks #athletes #captivated #caught #decades

I got a custom-made silk dress from a Chinese tailor for really cheap. I sketched it out on a piece of paper, and they took my measurements and made the dress for me in a day! ↗

— Alicia Sacramone

#chinese #day #dress #got #i

Ideally, I'd like every issue to include a diverse group of stories that meet the qualifications sketched above, but covering a wide range of specific matter and flavour. ↗

— Stanley Schmidt

#covering #diverse #every #flavour #group

The students that, like the wild animal being prepared for its tricks in the circus called "life", expects only training as sketched above, will be severely disappointed: by his standards he will learn next to nothing. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#animal #being #being prepared #called #circus