Quotes About Creation

world—"You think in secret and it comes to pass, environment is but your looking glass." James Allen wrote those words

This is your world You're the creator Find freedom on this canvas Believe, that you can do it, 'Cuz you can do it. You can do it.

Lets build a happy little cloud. Lets build some happy little trees.

The world is proof that God is a committee.

Three rabbits, two cats, three parakeets, a dove, two parrots, three turkeys, two geese, a canary, and nine ducks at last count were just about what Noah had started with, and he never brought his animals into the house.

And evolution wasn't even properly invented until the late 1800s. Is that enough time to get a Labrador retriever from a dire wolf? I think not.

Nature loves a burst of energy.

The world is more malleable than you think, and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.

Well, one of the things that hits have and that great music always has, you know--the music feels like it was already there.

The world is more malleable than you think and it's waiting for you to hammer it into shape.

We thank you, Almighty God, for the gift of water. Over it the Holy Spirit moved in the beginning of creation. Through it you led the children of Israel out of their bondage in Egypt into the land of promise. In it your Son Jesus received the baptism of John and we are buried with Christ in his death. By it we share in his resurrection. Through it we are reborn by the Holy Spirit.

When I write, I write because a thing has to be done. I don't think a writer should meddle too much with his own work. He should let the work write itself.

A perfect work destroys the critic's art.

The ideas of things precede and lead to their creation.

To cultivate a garden is to walk with God.

It's easier to invent the future than to predict it.

It's easier to invent the future than to predict it." —Alan Kay

At the same time, Bezos became enamored with a book called Creation, by Steve Grand, the developer of a 1990s video game called Creatures that allowed players to guide and nurture a seemingly intelligent organism on their computer screens.

A novel is like a sausage. You might like the final taste, but you probably don't want to see how it was made.

The only thing worth writing about is people. People . Human beings. Men and women whose individuality must be created, line by line, insight by insight.

The solitary creator, dreaming his or her dream, unaided, seems to me to be the only artist we can trust.

Ich bin nicht Gott. Wunderbare Idee, das gebe ich zu, aber ich bin trotzdem nicht Gott. Möchtest du Gott begegnen? Wir könnten bestimmt einen der Künstler finden, der ihn für dich aus Ton abbilden oder auf der Leinwand darstellen würde.

Inwardly: alone. Here. Living. under the land, under the sea, in the belly of AM, whom we created because our time was badly spent and we must have known unconsciously that he could do it better. At least the four of them are safe at last. AM will be all the madder for that. It makes me a little happier. And yet … AM has won, simply … he has taken his revenge … I have no mouth. And I must scream.

The creator of Sir John Falstaff, of Hamlet, and of Rosalind also makes me wish I could be more myself. But that, as I argue throughout this book, is why we should read, and why we should read only the best of what has been written.