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Quotes About Creation

But the moment of creation is where all causal chains end; inference can lead us back to this moment and no further.
~ Ted Chiang
No one relishes the prospect of humans being conceived artificially. But can you offer an alternative?
~ Ted Chiang
The universe began as an enormous breath being held. Who knows why, but whatever the reason, I am glad that it did, because I owe my existence to that fact.
~ Ted Chiang
Free will is a kind of miracle; when we make a genuine choice, we bring about a result that cannot be reduced to the workings of physical law. Every act of volition is, like the creation of the universe, a first cause.
~ Ted Chiang
females were the source of the vital principle that gave the offspring life, while males provided the basic form. Because of this division, neither sex could reproduce by itself.
~ Ted Chiang
What I'll think is that you are clearly, maddeningly not me. It will remind me, again, that you won't be a clone of me; you can be wonderful, a daily delight, but you won't be someone I could have created by myself. —
~ Ted Chiang
The universe began as an enormous breath being held. Who knows why, but whatever the reason, I am glad that it did, because I owe my existence to that fact. All my desires and ruminations are no more and no less than eddy currents generated by the gradual exhalation of our universe. And until this great exhalation is finished, my thoughts live on. So
~ Ted Chiang
The four rules of writing... 1. Write to discover. 2. There is no greater discovery than love. 3. All love comes from the Creator. 4. Write what you will.
~ Ted Dekker
Live to discover, as long as discovery leads to a love that comes from the Creator... writing was the mirror to life.
~ Ted Dekker
My feet are locked upon the rough bark.It took the whole of CreationTo produce my foot, my each feather:Now I hold Creation in my footOr fly up, and revolve it all slowly—I kill where I please because it is all mine.
~ Ted Hughes
The most important copy you will ever write is that which you create and print each day on your own subconscious.
~ Ted Nicholas
By means of all created things, without excaption, the divine assails us, penetrates us, and molds us. We imagined it as distant and inaccessible, when in fact we live steeped in its burning layers
~ Teillard de Chardin
As I was working I noticed that the way I designed the differential gearing actually created a spare drive that sat directly below the emperor's feet, or where they would be if he were to sit in the chariot.
~ Kit Williams
I can't inhabit my characters until I know what kind of work they do. This requires research because my jobs for the last decade have been author and professor, and I'd like to spare the world more author or professor novels.
~ Victor LaValle
Growing up, I was trying to make it in music. I was grinding, which is just what I loved doing. I didn't have nothing else to do. In my spare time, I'd record myself. Find a beat, pulling em up. Just making something and creating for me.
~ Takeoff
The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
~ Auguste Rodin
Copyright's democratising effect is seen most clearly in the music business. Anyone who can speak, sing, rap or hum and operate a simple sound recorder can create a copyright song. Imagination is the only limit.
~ Mick Hucknall
For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that - is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?
~ Thomas Carlyle
A universe with a creator would be a totally different kind of universe, scientifically speaking, than one without.
~ Richard Dawkins
But I'm a big, firm believer in speaking everything into existence.
~ Ashthon Jones
You can't ever create defensively. You just have to create the next thing that really speaks to you.
~ Marti Noxon
My mom and dad did something special when they made me.
~ Terrell Suggs
Everything, at first, is an idea, a special creation.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
We believe that creating a 'Mario' game is a special endeavor.
~ Reggie Fils-Aime