Famous Quotes & Sayings

Gary Arnold

Just wrestle under the name of 'wrestling' or pick some other creative name. Because as soon as you make it about the fact that it's people of short stature wrestling, that's when you're inviting the exploitation.

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.

Howard Lee

We must find creative ways to re-energize students and get them to be prolific readers.

Tyler Cowen

Food is a product of supply and demand, so try to figure out where the supplies are fresh, the suppliers are creative, and the demanders are informed.

Tracy Kidder

What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative

Wislawa Szymborska

At the very beginning of my creative life I loved humanity. I wanted to do something good for mankind. Soon I understood that it isn't possible to save mankind.

Will Self

A creative life cannot be sustained by approval any more than it can be destroyed by criticism.

Yves Klein

My monochrome pictures are not my definite works, but the preparation for my works. They are the leftovers from the creative processes, the ashes. My pictures, after all, are only the title-deeds to my property which I have to produce when I am asked to prove that I am a proprietor.

Twyla Tharp

Failing, and learning from it, is necessary. Unil you've done it, you're missing an important piece of your creative arsenal.

William J. Clinton

The only preparation for prospering in the global economy is investing in ourselves.

Robertson Davies

Inactivity and deprivation of all accustomed stimulus is not rest; it is a preparation for the tomb

Yves Klein

Hours of preparation for something that is excecuted, with extreme precision, in a few minutes. Just as with a judo throw.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Preparation for defense is an inalienable prerogative of a sovereign state.

John Cleese

If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time to be considering alternative strategies.

John Bolton

Obviously, you make preparations before you engage in any meeting.

Napoleon Hill

It's a sure thing that you'll not finish if you don't start.

Joe Namath

What I do is prepare myself until I know I can do what I have to do.

Natalia Makarova

I prepare myself very intensely. I am at the theatre four hours before the performance. It allows for complete concentration and preparation.

Phil Jaques

I am behind Australia's best opening partnership of all time, so I have to bide my time for opportunities to come up. It would be a dream come true to play a revenge Ashes series this summer.

Granth Sahib

If I was slashed and cut into pieces, over and over again, and put into the mill and ground into flour, burnt by fire and mixed with ashes - even then, I could not estimate Your Value. How can I describe the Greatness of Your Name?

Katy Manning

I lose things all the time. I once left my mother's ashes at a bus stop!

Nevil Shute

It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

John Green

Ashes to ashes. Garage sale to garage sale,” I said.

Joan of Arc

Alas! that my body, clean and whole, never been corrupted, today must be consumed and burnt to ashes!

Richard Wilbur

The little dog lay curled and did not rise But slept the deeper as the ashes rose, And found the people incomplete

Omar Khayyam

The Worldly Hope men set their Hearts upon Turns Ashes - or it prospers; and anon, Like Snow upon the Desert's dusty Face, Lighting a little hour or two - is gone.

Gerard Way

When we first started out I had a really big issue and a lot of my loved ones had a really big issue with the fact that I was totally in pain up there and there was a time when I tried to hurt myself off stage, but I got over that. Like, you should never want to hurt yourself. You should love yourself. Sometimes you have to kind of die inside in order to rise from your own ashes and believe in yourself and love yourself and become a new person and I think that that is going to be a lot of what the next record is about, not to plug it or anything. Like, it's going to talk about dying and coming back to become what you totally want to become. We are all becoming what we want to become.