Quotes About Creation

Almost anything at all can be transmuted into a labyrinth.

God made man and woman. He made man the stronger and set him over a particular field. He gave woman a peculiar nature and set her in the home to be the presiding spirit there.

She loved everything that grew on God's earth, even weeds.

There goes the meanest man ever God blew breath into

The job of the facilitator is not to keep things on time, but rather to enable the creation of safe time.

We all of us are made out of dirt. God took him up some dirt and put it in his hands and rolled it around and then he spit in the dirt and rolled it some more and out of that dirt and God spit, he made you and me, all of us.

I do feel that I've managed to make something I could maybe call my world…over time…little by little. And when I'm inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved. But the very fact I felt I had to make such a world probably means that I'm a weak person, that I bruise easily, don't you think? And in the eyes of society at large, that world of mine is a puny little thing. It's like a cardboard house: a puff of wind might carry it off somewhere.

Writing novels is much the same. You gather up bones and make your gate, but no matter how wonderful the gate might be, that alone doesn't make it a living breathing novel. A story is not something of this world. A real story requires a kind of magical baptism to link the world on this side with the world on the other side.

I realize now that the reality of things is not something you convey to people but something you make.

It takes years to build up, it takes moments to destroy.

When Debussy was seeming to get nowhere with an opera he was composing, he put it this way: I spent my days pursuing the nothingness - le rien - it creates. My job is to create that void, that rien . Hunting knife

Principles and logic didn't give birth to reality. Reality came first, and the principles and logic followed.

With my own hands, I had to construct this thing I called 'I' –or, rather, make the things that constituted me.

I add things, cross them off, then add a whole other bunch and cross them off, too.

One by one, with my own hands, I had to make this thing I called 'I'-- or, rather, make the things that constituted me.

I do feel that I've managed to make something I could maybe call my own world ... over time ... little by little. And when I'm inside it, to some extent, I feel kind of relieved. But the very fact I felt I had to make such a world probably means that, I am a weak person, that I bruise easily, don't you think? And in the eyes of society at large, that world of mine is a puny little thing.

Writing a novel is like having a dream.

We worked so hard, so hard, building our world one brick at a time. And when it fell apart, it happened just like that. Everything was gone before you knew it.

In fact, extensive informal networks are so important that if they do not exist, creating them has to be the focus of activity early in a major leadership initiative.

Whenever someone creates something with all of their heart, then that creation is given a soul.

If I were asked my view, in a nutshell, of what animation is, I would say it is what ever I want to create.

Storyboards augment the scenario, expand on its intent, and exist to be analyzed and eventually revised.

If God was able to create [from nothing] that which had never existed, He can certainly recreate that which had already existed.

Some people look for a beautiful place, others make a place beautiful.