Quotes About Genesis

though it had been called into being, not by God Almighty, but by the Army Corps of Engineers, who liked to put the finishing touches on Creation.

In 1383, the authorities in Marseille extended the isolation period to forty days, giving the quarantine its name. (The duration was a biblical touch, inspired by the forty days and forty nights of the flood in Genesis, the forty years the Israelites spent wandering in the wilderness, and the forty days of Lent.)

There was something transporting about the act of creating something from nothing.

When I left Genesis, I just wanted to be out of the music business. I felt like I was just in the machinery. We knew what we were going to be doing in 18 months or two years ahead. I just did not enjoy that.

Whether the earth was created in seven days or seven actual eras, I'm not sure we'll ever be able to answer that. It's one of the great mysteries.

The things that converge in the writing of a play come from a complex of motives, a genesis shrouded in a certain kind of mystery.

It's sort of a mystery where ideas come from.

There Adam slept, and God formed the body of woman from one of his ribs, signifying that she should stand at his side as a companion and never lie at his feet like a slave, and also that he should love her as his own flesh.

One page, one paragraph, of Hawking is more awe-inspiring, to say nothing of being more instructive, than the whole of Genesis and the whole of Ezekiel.

It's as if Joshua springs forth full grown from the head of Zeus. (Okay, bad metaphor, but you know what I mean.)

Thus, when we read Genesis we are reading an ancient document and should begin by using only the assumptions that would be appropriate for the ancient world. We must understand how the ancients thought and what ideas underlay their communication

Now, the first day of all of time—future and past.

I discovered ... that a novel has nothing to do with words in the first instance. Writing a novel is a cosmological matter, like the story told by Genesis (we all have to choose our role models, as Woody Allen puts it).

Descubrí, pues, que una novela no tiene nada que ver, en principio, con las palabras. Escribir una novela es una tarea cosmológica, como la que se cuenta en el Génesis (ya decía Woody Allen que los modelos hay que saber elegirlos).

Another story must begin!

And this is how the ending starts.

The history of theatre is the history of first nights.

We are the beginning ... We always have been. This time, let it be more than a beginning.

I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning.

Fig. 148. Cartesian Equation of the Cone Mid-point of base as Origin. The distance (d) between two points (P1 and P2) in 3-dimensional space (Fig. 147) is given by: d2 = (x2 ? x1)2 + (y2 ? y1)2 + (z2 ? z1)2 It is sometimes easier to obtain the Cartesian equation of a figure by first defining it in cylindrical co-ordinates and substituting: y = r sin A; x = r cos A Figs. 148 and 149 disclose the genesis of Cartesian equations which describe the cone and the sphere:

as is pointed out in the first chapter of Genesis. Deliberately cultivate the habit of appreciating money, and make no excuses about your appreciation.

the beginning is where the end gets born.

Anyway, nobody bothers with real beginnings anymore. We stopped making up stories about the creation of the world ages ago.

No one could ever create the Heaven and the Earth. He is the only one who has done so. The great God of all Creation.