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Quotes About Creation

she began to stand around the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know exactly. Her breath was gusty and short. She knew things that nobody ever told her. For instance, the words of the trees and the wind. .. She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pasture of ether. She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Nothing that God ever made is the same thing to more than one person.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
The present was an egg laid by the past that had the future inside its shell.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
She knew things that nobody had ever told her... She knew the world was a stallion rolling in the blue pastor of ether. She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one every sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Gods always behave like the people who created them.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Looking, waiting, breathing short with impatience. Waiting for the world to be made.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Janie knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
She must lend her ears to the sounds of mighty words boiling out of futile men. She must bear something in male form, for after all that is what she was born for—a passageway for boy children.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up. It was wonderful to see it take form with the sun and emerge from the gray dust of its making. The familiar people and things had failed her so she hung over the gate and looked up the road towards way off. She knew now that marriage did not make love. Janie's first dream was dead, so she became a woman.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Many a man thinks he is making something when he's only changing things around.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
She knew that God tore down the old world every evening and built a new one by sun-up.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
The one who makes the idols never worships them, however tenderly he might have molded the clay. You cannot have knowledge and worship at the same time.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
The will to make life beautiful was strong.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Don't make God look so foolish, finding fault with everything he made.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Aw, don't make God look so foolish, findin' fault wid everything He made
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Maybe nothin' ain't real sho' nuff. Maybe 'taint no world. No elements, no nothin'. Maybe wese jus' somewhere in God's mind. But when he wiggled his tired toes the world thudded and throbbed before him.
~ Zora Neale Hurston
Art is never finished. It is only abandoned.
~ Johan Renck
When I develop a character, I usually start by creating a backstory with whatever information I have access to.
~ Daniella Alonso
That's the way it happens - some characters you set out to use, some are happy accidents. As long as it works, it doesn't really matter how you got them.
~ Kurt Busiek
For me, I get a part of an idea here and a little bit of an idea there, and then finally it accumulates into a movie.
~ James Gray
I pay a lot of attention to how things are done and the whole activity of building something is interesting.
~ Donald Judd
I'm very much more interested in the created family than I am in actual families.
~ Joss Whedon
The actual making of a record is the most exciting part of this business.
~ Dr. Dre