Quotes About Creation

Rock'n'roll has to be destroyed and rebuilt in my name if it's ever gonna accomplish anything.

How can people think that artists seek a name? There is no such thing as an artist - only the world, lit or unlit, as the world allows.

One of the gamebook series I created, 'Fabled Lands', is also the name of my company, and the reason we named the company after it is that it was pretty revolutionary for its time.

I'm good at - or, rather, I like - giving names to characters.

I used to make up names when I used to catalog my stuff.

I make up names for people all the time - it's part of writing. Very often, the name comes with the character, along with of a sense of who they are and what they do.

It's not about the names or the faces: it's about the music we are creating.

You do get fond of your characters. Handing them on is like giving a child to a nanny.

The most important thing in games isn't the designer's narrative, but the story the player creates through his experiences.

The gender is irrelevant; the identity is the one you should try and create for yourself by yourself, and the narrative of your own life becomes your own book.

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create.

If I have a collection of songs for an EP or mixtape, I create the narrative afterwards; but usually with an album, I have a concept and the name first.

An epic is not made by piecing together a set of heroic lays, adjusting their discrepancies and making them into a continuous narrative.

I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from.

To create a collection, you need a narrative - an explanation to tell the team.

I think that, every individual you invent in narrative work, you have to have some root in who that person is. That may be an aspect of yourself; it may be an aspect of something that you like, that you don't like. It may be an aspect that you wish you had. Maybe something you admire in another person.

It's really important for me to have a record which has a strong narrative feel to it.

Right now I'm trying to do a fragrance called Natalie. She's very, very much alive for us.

As a logistics entrepreneur who has created hundreds of American jobs, I will make sure the National Highway bill improves our infrastructure, while ensuring that products used and jobs created from this legislation are made in the U.S.A.

Mountains are the beginning and the end of all natural scenery.

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.

Even when God chose Israel, he did not create the people of Israel as he created its human members, as natural beings. Instead, God formed the people of Israel from individual human beings already living in the natural world, calling them into a new historical identity.

Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.

One billion grains of sand come into existence in the world each second. That's a cyclical process. As rocks and mountains die, grains of sand are born. Some of those grains may then cement naturally into sandstone. And as the sandstone weathers, new grains break free. Some of those grains may then accumulate on a massive scale, into a sand dune.