Lance Loud

Scrawling 'I'm gay' in lipstick on your parents' bedroom mirror may demonstrate a personal signature of the highest style, but is not particularly sensitive to their feelings. Upon hearing me utter those words almost twenty years ago, my own mother did what and self-respecting middle-class mom would do: went directly into a seizure.

American Actor

Dennis Christopher

A script arrived, and on the front cover - scrawled really big, as if it were a book report - is 'Django Unchained, written by Quentin Tarantino.' And I thought, 'Well, no art department came up with this; this is Quentin's writing.

John Darnielle

I write stuff down. I have a chalkboard in the kitchen where I will scrawl stuff down if I have a faint outline of an idea. And I'll go into my office or whatever. But that goes from format to format.

American Musician

Joe Garagiola

I always loved the signs on the outfield walls, and I'll never forget the one in Philadelphia. It said, 'The Phillies use Lifebuoy soap,' and underneath was scrawled, 'And they still stink.

American Athlete

Sean Evans

If you think scrawling your Twitter handle on a bus window with a Sharpie is a worthwhile way to gain followers, your social media strategy is headed in a pretty pathetic direction.

American Entertainer

Terry Glavin

It was in Dara'a that Syria's non-violent democratic movement had begun in 2011, with schoolboys scrawling on a wall: 'The people want to topple the regime.

Canadian Author

Karla Crome

With TV, you film something and have to wait six months to scrawl through Twitter to see what people think.

English Actress

Harold Stephen Black

The answer scrawled on a blank page in a daily newspaper, was conceived whilst aboard a ferry.

American Inventor

Used to describe writing done quickly, often carelessly, without focusing on neatness.

Hasty Writing

Often conveys strong emotions like anger or desperation when someone writes swiftly.

Emotional Intensity

Considered casual and too informal for professional or official documents.

Informal Use

Refers to writing or drawings that are challenging to interpret due to messiness.

Difficult Legibility

May be purposefully used in art or literature to evoke a sense of chaos or disorder.

Unexpected Contexts

Rarely appropriate in formal settings where clear, legible writing is expected.

Not Formal

 stripped a vehicle of its windshield wipers, its hubcaps, its sideview mirrors, any moving part they could find, at 8:30, because the watchmen were busy watching the T.V. rather than minding the store. And they scrawled on the windshield in a reference to the show's heroine,

Why nations should...

 that has since become Here be dragons. Though the words themselves were actually quite rare, the sentiment was common among medieval European mapmakers, who often scrawled dragons and sea monsters over terra incognita— blank spots on the map.

The biggest mistakes in...

 embodied by the seven observable planets in the sky. But perhaps the most impactful innovation to come out of Mesopotamia is literacy. What began as simple pictures scrawled onto wet clay to keep track of goods and wealth

Ancient Mesopotamia 101...

 only now are we beginning to see the results of bolivars vision and maybe that's why he's still such a living presence in the region why his name is still scrawled on walls his