Charles M. Blow Quotes

An illustration is a visual editorial - it's just as nuanced. Everything that goes into it is a call you make: every color, every line weight, every angle.

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• I took the position from day one that it was the right decree, that the modifications I made to the decree were proper, that the correct outcome had been obtained, and that in due time all of that would become apparent. And it has become apparent.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Time
  • Day
  • Become

• Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • College
  • Painting
  • Arts

• The more we learn about life, the less plausible is any evolutionary theory that relies on blind, undirected, piece-by-piece change.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • Life
  • Change
  • Blind

• I'm a believer in things happening for a reason.

  

  Fleur East
  • Reason
  • Things
  • Happening

• No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.

  

  Rahm Emanuel
  • Children
  • City
  • Child

• My favorite animal is steak.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Food
  • Animal
  • Steak

• I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • Pride

• I didn't start exercising until the end of my modeling career. When you're young, you eat and drink what you want and stay up all night and still look good.

  

  Iman
  • Up
  • Good
  • Career

• Several hundreds of thousands of Palestinian Arabs live in slums known as refugee camps in Gaza, Judea, and Somalia. Attempts by Israel to rehabilitate and oust them have been defeated by Arab objections. Nor has their fate been any better in Arab states.

  

  Yitzhak Shamir
  • Live
  • Better
  • Fate

• A good president needs a big comfort zone. He should be able to treat enemies as opportunities, appear authentic in joy and grief, stay cool under the hot lights.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Good
  • Joy
  • Cool

• Outcome is simply the final score: Who won the game; what numbers came up in a roll of the dice; how high did a stock go. Outcome is the result, regardless of the method used to achieve it. It is not controllable.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Up
  • High
  • Game

• Like so many women, especially military women, I waited to have children.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Women
  • Children
  • Military

• I try to dress smooth, I try to keep my face shaved, I try to keep my head cut. I try to do all the things to keep it smooth going!

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Try
  • Face
  • Dress

• Life and death are one thread, the same line viewed from different sides.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Different
  • Death

• I never really caught on in America. I don't have an agent. It's too strange for me.

  

  Barbara Sukowa
  • America
  • Never
  • Strange

• Not everyone is lucky enough to be given space and trust.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Space
  • Trust
  • Lucky

• But on those occasions when I do strongly disagree with the Democrats and I don't say anything, I think I forfeit my right to have people pay attention to me when I say the things that I don't like about what Republicans are saying.

  

  Barney Frank
  • People
  • Attention
  • Right

• The American people voted to restore integrity and honesty in Washington, D.C., and the Democrats intend to lead the most honest, most open and most ethical Congress in history.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • American
  • History

• If you have an enemy, then learn and know your enemy, don't just be mad at him or her.

  

  Denzel Washington
  • Enemy
  • Mad

• I'm quite British; I've got big, flat feet, and I can't wear heels. I've got very, very pale Celtic skin, so my legs are always a frightening blue color. So when you take out clothes that reveal your legs, shoes that have any kind of heel, no shop will actually take my money.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Money
  • Color
  • Shoes

• It's becoming much more common to see yoga studios offer classes aimed exclusively at people of color who are searching for ways to cope with racism and fears around police brutality.

  

  Jenna Wortham
  • People
  • Color
  • Police

• I do think there's a preoccupation that women understandably have with this idea of the roles we're meant to play and whether or not those roles serve us or ultimately kind of imprison us.

  

  Karyn Kusama
  • Women

• There are some things people avoid saying in interviews because they sound pompous or sentimental or too mystical.

  

  Derek Walcott
  • People

• An illustration is a visual editorial - it's just as nuanced. Everything that goes into it is a call you make: every color, every line weight, every angle.

  

  Charles M. Blow
  • Color