Quotes of: Creative-act Keyword

One of the things that's been nice about my career is that I've been able to do so many different things, and variety keeps your creative soul fulfilled. I'm constantly looking to find new things to do. It's just project to project for me. You never ...

Drew Goddard

...those thoroughly incorporated within the inexorable logic of the market and its demands find that there is little time and space in which to explore emancipatory potentialities outside what is marketed as 'creative' adventure, leisure, and spectac...

David Harvey

Someday, i dream we will medically address mental illness in a way that helps people WITHOUT completely crippling them, creatively or robbing them of their precious sensitivity. No one wants to live life feeling like they underwent a chemical lobotom...

Jaeda DeWalt

In the years since man unlocked the power stored up within the atom, the world has made progress, halting, but effective, toward bringing that power under human control. The challenge may be our salvation. As we begin to master the destructive potent...

John F. Kennedy

During my 20’s and 30’s at some point I started to think, “I have to give it up and I have to grow up.” But the truth is that I can never give it up and that’s another thing that I always tell people, especially young people: don’t even b...

Alice Bag

In the land of the rejected, the field is flattened, open to much oppurtunity. Here flourish the weeds and nonstandard quality alike. No one aspires, because there is no pinnacle to reach — just be better than whoever is next to you. It is basic, f...

Alec Mackaye

Something about the turbulence of adolescence makes you want to do something creative...I thought as I got older I would stop writing about it, but I find adolescence, and popular depictions of it, very interesting. I like to see where my own life in...

Love

Sound is so important to creative writing. Think of the sounds you hear that you include and the similes you use to describe what things sound . 'As she walked up the alley, her polyester workout pants sounded like windshield wipers swishing back and...

Love

Where visual artists are concerned, the Baroque sculptor and architect Bernini and the painter and sculptor Picasso were clearly adept at both experiential and instrumental attending, says Tellegen, as is the modern architect Frank Gehry. Choosing a ...

Winifred Gallagher

There's a great power of imagination about these little creatures, and a creative fancy and belief that is very curious to watch . . . I am sure that horrid matter-of-fact child-rearers . . . do away with the child's most beautiful privilege. I am de...

William Makepeace Thackeray

I'm fine with death. I've dealt out more than my share. It's the act of dyin' that bothers me.

The Caldarian Conflict

True service is a lifestyle. It acts from the ingrained patterns of living. It springs spontaneously to meet human need.

Celebration of Discipline

He often felt that too many people lived their lives acting and pretending,wearing masks and losing themselves in the process.

The Choice

In the act of creation, as in all the arts, the soul should be felt in the face and the fingers and the tongue, even in the cavities.

In Conversation

And now none of it could be undone. That was the exquisite irony: the act that had undone everything could not itself be undone.

The Coming Storm

They couldn't keep Death out, but while she was in she had to act like a lady.

Catch-22

Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.

Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places: A Conversation in Spiritual Theology

[Patriotism] is in itself a kind of religion: it does not reason, but it acts from the impulse of faith and sentiment.

Democracy in America

your relevance in an environment may be determined by your acts there

Distinctive Footprints of Life: Where Are You Heading Towards?

But there are times," said Charlotte, "when it is necessary and an act of friendship to write nothing rather than not to write.

Elective Affinities

I will look the part. I will act the part. I will deliver that which I have promised to deliver.

The Extremely Successful Salesman's Club