Quotes About Creation

A lot of my songs are written prophetically: I write something, and then I make it happen.

How different would this country be if few were engaged in making money and many in making things.

I like making movies.

Making movies is a way of understanding myself and the world.

I love making movies.

I love making movies that I want to see made and I want to see on the screen, but I also want to make movies that people enjoy and want to watch.

What drew me into making movies is trying to make characters that step off the screen.

I was never interested in 'making up' games when I was little. I wanted to create something real.

Religion is man-made. Every religion says my 'God is the best.'

I enjoy building more than managing.

Mankind invents things to fight about.

With any book, I try to find where the manner of the making of the book is appropriate to the matter of the subject.

It may not be the best marketing thing to do but I don't like talking about my film until I have finished it.

When you pick up a House of Marley product, it's not just about the music; it's also about how it's created.

I could cut a star out of paper and drop it.

I daresay she is as proud of you as I am. We are two old ladies who both had a hand in forming you. You are, one might say, our joint creation. Don't you think I did any of me myself, then? Howl asked. Put in just a few touches of my own? A few, and those not altogether to my liking, Mrs Pentstemmon replied.

God may promise not to destroy creation, but it is not a promise humankind made - to our peril.

No matter how politely one says it, we owe our existence to the farts of blue-green algae.

The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.

Only by fumbling with countless bits of knowledge, and then ignoring most of it, does a creative mind craft something original.

Thank you, Merciful Lord, for having arranged to provide flowers with fragrance, glow worms with their glow, and to make the stars in the sky sparkle.

I must begin at whatever pace is possible, to work on the book of my own that i vaguely keep assuming lies at the end of the rainbow. It is after all my rainbow and if I don't do it no one else will...Survival is the secret so you really can't afford to doubt yourself for long because you are all you've got. The only thing to do is to go the limit with it. Exceed.

When one is nothing, one invents. It fills a void.

A river no more begins at its source than a story begins with the first page.