Quotes About Creation

You are one thing only. You are a Divine Being. An all-powerful Creator. You are a Deity in jeans and a t-shirt, and within you dwells the infinite wisdom of the ages and the sacred creative force of All that is, will be and ever was.

We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

For sheer showmanship, it is hard to beat the creation of a really flashy dessert. Without asking Benedetta's permission, Bruno assembled his ingredients. Eggs. Sugar. Cream. Pastry. A large dish of black currants and other fruits from the garden. First he spun sugar into delicate lattice bowls of crisp brown caramel. Then he made meringues, inside which he placed individual baked peaches. Where the peach stone had been, he inserted a berry gelato , made with pieces of solid fruit.

That's what the gods do," he says, "they spin threads of ruin through the fabric of our lives, all to make a song for generations to come.

And doesn't a writer do the same thing? Isn't she knitting together scraps of dreams? She hunts down the most vivid details and links them in sequences that will let a reader see, smell, and hear a world that seems complete in itself; she builds a stage set and painstakingly hides all the struts and wires and nail holes, then stands back and hopes whoever might come to see it will believe.

Each sign signifies a sound, and to link sounds is to form words, and to link words is to construct worlds.

She said being able to give life was not something anyone should take for granted.

The universe is full of fuel.

make the raised dots form letters, the letters words, the words a world.

We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands, atoms flow in and out, molecules pivot, proteins stitch together, mitochondria send out their oxidative dictates; we begin as a microscopic electrical swarm. The lungs the brain the heart. Forty weeks later, six trillion cells get crushed in the vise of our mother's birth canal and we howl. Then the world starts in on us.

For 2,600 years, the man continues, those of us in the Western tradition have been assured that the role of humanity is to subdue the earth. That all creation was created for us to harvest. And for 2,600 years we pretty much got away with it. Temperatures remained constant, seasons stayed predictable, and we cut down forests and fished out oceans and elevated one god above all others: Growth.

Hertz's theories are interesting but what he loves most is building things, working with his hands, connecting his fingers to the engine of his mind.

That's what the gods do they spin threads of ruin through the fabric of our lives, all to make a song for generations to come.

I heard that the diamond is like a piece of light from the original world. Before it fell. A piece of light rained to earth from God.

Então, crianças, como o cérebro, que vive sem uma centelha de luz, constrói para nós um mundo cheio de luz?

The first good news for all of us, the first joyful story of our lives, is that there is a story at all, and an Author who has loved us into being.

it is not too fanciful to guess that the plan's inventor was the man

A novel is a container for 80,000 to 90,000 words and you might see it as a jelly mould. You pour them all in and hope they'll set.

Communism is not a creation of the masses to overthrow the Banking establishment, but rather a creation of the Banking establishment to overthrow and enslave the people.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

If Providence has created the stars and the planets, man has called the cannonball into existence.

I think that's what art is about: to provoke you. It helps me make sense of a senseless universe because I become the god of the story. I create it, and I see it in all its lineaments in my own way and can control it - in a world in which everything else is out of control.

As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to pry beyond that.

The only reason I create something is because I'm chasing a feeling. You can use a bunch of musical or psychological operations to achieve that result.