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Quotes About Creation

All it takes is for people to believe and I am no longer just an artefact put together by clever engineers. I am an idea, a something made of nothing, whose time has come to be. Some may even call me Goddess
~ Terry Pratchett
An alternative, favoured by those of a religious persuasion, was that A'Tuin was crawling from the Birthplace to the Time of Mating, as were all the stars in the sky which were, obviously, also carried by giant turtles. When they arrived they would briefly and passionately mate, for the first and only time, and from that fiery union new turtles would be born to carry a new pattern of worlds. This was known as the Big Bang hypothesis.
~ Terry Pratchett
I ain't against gods and goddesses, in their place. But they've got to be the ones we make ourselves. Then we can take 'em to bits for the parts when we don't need 'em anymore, see?
~ Terry Pratchett
I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset cos' they act like people, said Adam severely. Anyway, if you stopped tellin' people it's all sorted out after they're dead, they might try sorting it all out while they're alive.
~ Terry Pratchett, Neil Gaiman
The mind creates those things that exist.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
Agitation gives birth to creation.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
We hold the moon in our bellies and fire in our hearts. We bleed We give milk. We are the mothers of first words. These words grow. They are our children. They are our stores and poems.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
A pencil is a wand and a weapon. Be careful. Protect yourself. It can be glorious.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
To acknowledge that which we cannot see, to give definition to that which we don't know, to create divine order out of chaos, is the religious dance.
~ Terry Tempest Williams
I do not think there is any thrill that can go through the human heart like that felt by the inventor as he sees some creation of the brain unfolding to success... such emotions make a man forget food, sleep, friends, love, everything. Nikola Tesla
~ Tesla Nikola Tesla
The world is not a problem to be solved; it is a living being to which we belong. The world is part of our own self and we are a part of its suffering wholeness. Until we go to the root of our image of separateness, there can be no healing. And the deepest part of our separateness from creation lies in our forgetfulness of its sacred nature, which is also our own sacred nature.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
According to the creation story in the biblical book of Genesis, God said, "Let there be light." I like to imagine that light replied, saying, "God, I have to wait for my twin brother, darkness, to be with me. I can't be there without the darkness." God asked, "Why do you need to wait? Darkness is there." Light answered, "In that case, then I am also already there.
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
The world is not a problem to be solved; it is a living being to which we belong. The world is part of our own self and we are a part of its suffering wholeness. Until we go to the root of our image of separateness, there can be no healing. And the deepest part of our separateness from creation lies in
~ Thích Nh?t H?nh
Secret 251 You are entirely dependent upon God's Creation to accomplish anything of value. This is reason for gratitude in and of itself.
~ The New Message from God
Behind every work of art lies an uncommitted crime
~ Theodor Adorno
She knew the truth: that Frankenstein had created a female monster, and that the female monster had escaped. And she hid that truth. Knowing of Justine, she did the best she could, for another woman. She erased her from the story.
~ Theodora Goss
Moreau made me, but Edward taught me to be human.
~ Theodora Goss
he had created a monster.
~ Theodora Goss
A real man—a financier—was never a tool. He used tools. He created. He led. Clearly
~ Theodore Dreiser
Create a world in which these things do or do not exist, or in which they are extended in some way. Test reality against this fiction. The reader will recognize the world that you're talking about, even though it may be another one altogether
~ Theodore Sturgeon
90 percent of everything is crap.
~ Theodore Sturgeon
Si Bébé, c'est-à-dire le cÅ"ur, le moi, le tabernacle de ce nouvel être, si Bébé pouvait être remplacé, alors l'Homo Gestalt etait immortel.
~ Theodore Sturgeon
Ask the next question, and the one that follows that, and the one that follows that. It's the symbol of everything humanity has ever created, and is the reason it has been created.
~ Theodore Sturgeon
The truth is where the sculptor's chisel chipped away the lie.
~ They Might Be Giants