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.

Stephen King

There are things of such darkness and horror—just, I suppose, as there are things of such great beauty—that they will not fit through the puny human doors of perception.

Burn Gorman

I'm afraid the 'Doctor Who' door is probably closed because of me being in 'Torchwood.'

Ellen DeGeneres

I have the picture of Barack [Obama] and me dancing right outside of my dressing room door, I see it every single day, and it makes me very happy.

Oprah Winfrey

Check your ego at the door and check your gut instead. Every right decision I have ever made has come from my gut. Every wrong decision I've made was the result of me not listening to the greater voice of myself

Oprah Winfrey

What I know for sure is this: The big secret in life is that there is no big secret. Whatever your goal for this year is, you can get there - as long as you're willing to be honest with yourself about the preparation and work involved. There are no back doors, no free rides. There's just you, this moment, and a choice.

Pope Francis

On the ordination of women, the church has spoken and said no. John Paul II, in a definitive formulation said that door is closed.

Sean William Scott

I draw to shock myself out of a too-easy rhythm - I may begin with no conception whatever, an image emerges . I rub it out and begin again, searching for its counterpart. When it appears I invariably find that the thing I draw is at my elbow, it is out of the window, or has been standing at my front door for a long time.

Les Dawson

Last year my wife ran off with the fellow next door and I must admit, I still miss him.

Lara Pulver

I'm not shutting doors on myself, in any way, within theater, musical theater, TV and film.

Bobby Hitt

The new Z4s are not in the market yet. It will be sometime this spring.

Eliphas Levi

What is more absurd and more impious than to attribute the name of Lucifer to the devil, that is, to personified evil. The intellectual Lucifer is the spirit of intelligence and love; it is the paraclete, it is the Holy Spirit, while the physical Lucifer is the great agent of universal magnetism.

Anne Sexton

My death from the wrists, two name tags, blood worn like a corsage to bloom one on the left and one on the right.

Joni Mitchell

I didn't like the sound of people gasping at the mere mention of my name. It horrified me.

Kevin Rudd

My name is Kevin, I'm from Queensland, and I'm here to help.

Khalil Gibran

Love passes by us, robed in meekness; but we flee from her in fear, or hide in the darkness; or else pursue her, to do evil in her name.

Jonathan Safran Foer

What is suffering? I'm not sure what it is, but I know that suffering is the name we give to the origin of all the sighs, screams, and groans — small and large, crude and multifaceted — that concern us. The word defines our gaze even more than what we are looking at.

Jaclyn Smith

I was the first actress who branded her own line at a time when everyone just lent their name to a product. Everyone said I shouldnt do it, but it was probably the best thing Ive ever done.

Hector Hugh Munro

There may have been disillusionments in the lives of the medieval saints, but they would scarcely have been better pleased if they could have foreseen that their names would be associated nowadays chiefly with racehorses and the cheaper clarets.

James Joyce

and yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood.

Tim Ricketts

This is our third straight win and to win on the road like this is a nice victory.

Bella Thorne

The Humane Society is so great to work with. Because everyone there is so nice and supportive, and they're all animal lovers like me.

Bobby Robson

Anything from 1-0 to 2-0 would be a nice result

Debby Ryan

T.V. acting is a great skill to have, and it's nice to have that stability.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

Alright, you'll get your bonus, buy play nice with her. Keep your sarcasm to a minimum. (Kyrian) Yes, O Great Lord and Master. Be nice to woman, keep mouth shut. (Nick)

Max Azria

Yes, e-commerce is a strange situation for an old guy like me. You can buy a TV online, OK, but to buy a dress or shoes? Ugh. The customer has to go back to the store and breathe and smell and have a good time. Because shopping is a good time - like going to a nice restaurant.

Mariah Carey

I work myself into the ground. But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.

Michel Gondry

I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. If you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. But I have to be nice. I don't think I have irony. A sense of humour, yes, but not irony.

Michael Cunningham

Any other vexations to report?" he asks. "I love the word 'vexations.'" "It's the 'x.' Nice to jump off a 'v' and bite into an 'x' like that." "Just the usual ones," she says. "How was the weekend?" "Vexing. Not really, I just wanted to say it. You?

Clay Shirky

Trying to express implicit and fuzzy relationships in ways that are explicit and sharp doesn't clarify the meaning, it destroys it.

Anna Quindlen

There's something undeniable about the posture of a person trying not to acknowledge your existance

Cindy Margolis

The more I learn and read about the 10th Muse i realize what a great fan base and cult following she has. I'm going to try to live up to the fantastic image of the 10th Muse!

Cicely Tyson

The moment anyone tries to demean or degrade you in any way, you have to know how great you are. Nobody would bother to beat you down if you were not a threat.

Chuck Yeager

What good does it do to be afraid? It doesn't help anything. You better try and figure out what's happening and correct it.

Cindy Crawford

In the studio, I do try to have a thought in my head, so that it's not like a blank stare.

Cillian Murphy

You need to be as clean of a slate as you can be, as an actor. You have to try to be open to every experience.

Alfie Kohn

How can we do our best when we are spending our energies trying to make others lose - and fearing that they will make us lose?

Angela Merkel

I am courageous at the decisive moment. But I need a good deal of start-up time, and I try to take as much as possible into consideration beforehand.