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.

Jeanine Basinger

Magic in cinema is a bit like ventriloquism on the radio.

Jim Cummings

I grew up watching all the great Disney animated films and to be able to carry that torch and know that I'm contributing to the same magic and wonder for a whole new generation is a great thing.

Jesse Eisenberg

I feel very guilty doing magic because you're deceiving somebody.

Grant Morrison

Everyone does magic all the time in different ways. 'Life' plus 'significance' = magic.

George H. W. Bush

Competence is the creed of the technocrat who makes sure the gears mesh but doesn't for a second understand the magic of the machine.

Jim Butcher

I put the ick in magic.

Jim Butcher

There aren't any magical words, really. Words just hold the magic.

Jim Butcher

Magic comes from what is inside you. It is a part of you. You can't weave together a spell that you don't beleive in.

Iris Murdoch

The theatre is certainly a place for learning about the brevity of human glory: oh all those wonderful glittering absolutely vanished pantomime! Now I shall abjure magic and become a hermit : put myself in a situation where I can honestly say that I have nothing else to do but to learn to be good.

John Milton

Black it stood as night, / Fierce as ten furies, terrible as hell, / And shook a dreadful dart.

Sophie Okonedo

I feel as proud to be Jewish as I feel to be black

Stanley Kubrick

Everybody has their black moments.

Stacy Keibler

Less is more when you do a bright, bold lip. Just draw on black liner and some mascara and you're good to go!

Stephenie Meyer

But it's possible to love more than one person at a time, Bella. I've seen it in action.

Sylvia Plath

Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled black across the sun.

Sylvia Plath

A black-sharded lady keeps me in a parrot cage.

Tom Robbins

The first thunderstorm of the season was in the dressing room, donning its black robes and its necklace of hailstones, strapping on its electrical sword.

Steve Albini

In 1980, I moved to Chicago, and I recorded demo tapes for my friends' bands, and in 1981, the first Big Black record - the first thing I did that was an actual record.