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.

Ray Mabus

Here are the choices I dont want to make: between paying additional fuel costs and flying and steaming less; between paying additional fuel costs and building fewer ships and planes.

Michael Josephson

The choices you make in your life will make your life. Choose wisely.

Kamala Harris

My mantra about everything that has to do with public policy is: identify and reject the false choice.

Stevie Smith

You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.

Solomon Ortiz

This nation's 23 million small businesses need a budget that reflects their value to the economy.

Taylor Schilling

So often, we're expected to maintain some sort of standard - that won't get you where you need to go.

Stanley Kunitz

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him. To remain a poet after forty requires an awareness of your darkest Africa, that part of yourself that will never be tamed.

Stanley Kunitz

A poet needs to keep his wilderness alive inside him.

Stacy London

You don't need money to look fabulous. There are so many awesome new designers, so many designers doing collections for mass retailers.

Soren Kierkegaard

What I really need is to get clear out about what I must do, not what I must know, except insofar as knowledge precedes every act.

Stephenie Meyer

Everyone needs a little Edward in their life

Tana French

If you rewrite a paragraph fifty times and forty-nine of them are terrible, that's fine; you only need to get it right once.