Famous Quotes & Sayings

Patti Smith

I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work.

Hilary Mantel

For historians, creative writers provide a kind of pornography.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Of the truly creative no one is ever master; it must be left to go its own way.

Jodie Foster

I'd always need a creative outlet. But sometimes, I do fantasize what my life would be like if I weren't famous.

Jim Rohn

You need courage to be creative. You need the courage to see things differently, courage to go against the crowd, courage to take a different approach, courage to stand alone, if you have to, courage to choose activity over inactivity.

James Detorre

They're crossing their fingers because disposable income is so low. They must be more creative and fun, so people can take their minds off other issues.

Chris Graveline

It was creative -- it was creative abuse.

Toby Keith

It was the most creative thing I've done in a decade.

Cathie Izen

It was a very creative way of getting the kids to understand the dangers.

Joanne Pratt

The Web is a great place to shop and spend money, but it's pretty great for making money too.

Jerry Murphy

The weather cooperated and we really had a great show.

Jeff Koons

The Whitney is a museum that has a great rapport with younger artists and the community.

Christopher Morley

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure is too great for his income of ideas

Piet Hein

The universe may / be as great as they say. / But it wouldn't be missed/ if it didn't exist.

Jim Yurwitz

The way things turned out, we had a shot at winning it. We had some great performances today.

Rick Carlisle

This game's not a great indicator of reality.

Terry Donahue

That's when I said, 'We've got an issue here with this guy for sure.' And then I find out we had had 10 to 12 guys getting IV's. I'd say the team really responded and did a great job in that situation.

Johnny Damon

That's what we needed to do. A great team win.

Grover Norquist

The only whiners left by next week will be the registered bigots.

Robert Parker

They needed to do it. If this restructuring is left to year three out of the three-year plan, I think the market is going to be unimpressed.

Joe Torre

Opening day is very special. We've waited a long time for this. I left for spring training about two months ago.

Ken Gaddy

Our saying is it's not what's in the museum, it's what's left out.

Norma Aviles

The pictures and the memorabilia, that's the only thing we have left of him.

Walter Kirn

Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.

Win Butler

A lot of people get really stuck in this idea that everything's been done and there's nowhere left to go.

Mark Adams

We were kind of left to make it up as we went along.

Tony Beardsley

We're not sure if he's 100 percent because we haven't thrown him out there. He's doing better. I look for him to come back where he left off.

John Green

What happens in the band room stays in the band room.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

It is the nature of strong people that they can bring out crucial questions and form a clear opinion about them.

Anita Baker

I dont think being black has held me back at all. Being black makes you strong.

Angie Stone

Coming through the fire and through the storm of life with a strong man, my fiance Ashanti, whom I've been dating for eight months and two wonderful children beside me, I'm just so happy that I have been able to maintain my integrity and get to where I am today with the right energy around me.

Angie Stone

I can be strong for everybody except myself. I can tell somebody, 'Hey, keep it together', but I can't take my own advice.

Amy Robach

Telling my children was the toughest part. But that's when you get strong, because you have to be strong for other people.

Amy Ray

Music is such a good way to resist. It keep you strong, it has dignity.

Ally Carter

Hey I bruise," Hale said. "Also, you are freakishly strong.

Alison Sweeney

Yoga is my luxury workout. If I'm on vacation or I have a day off, I love a 90-minute yoga class. It's a really strong workout, but it takes a little bit longer.

Alistair Darling

As I said, there are two approaches-first, a strong economy, stability and helping families or, secondly, the Tory cuts, the undermining of stability, and a return to the boom and bust of the 1990s.

Van Morrison

I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.