Creatinous Quotes & Sayings

If your writing collides with the conventional wisdom, there's going to be some kind of friction. — Pankaj Mishra

Peace can be promoted by the limitation of arms and by the creation of the instrumentality for peaceful settlement of controversies. But it will become a reality only through self-restraint and active effort in friendliness and helpfulness. — Herbert Hoover

My favourite film-maker west of the English Channel is not English - but to me doesn't seem American either - David Lynch - a curious American-European film-maker. He has - against odds - achieved what we want to achieve here. He takes great risks with a strong personal voice and adequate funds and space to exercise it. I thought Blue Velvet was a masterpiece. — Peter Greenaway

Are you going to argue with me?"
Beatrix tried to sound meek. "No, sir."
A slow smile crossed his face. "That was the worst attempt at obedience I've ever seen. — Lisa Kleypas

A hundred million crystallized polio viruses could cover the period at the end of this sentence. There could be two hundred and fifty Woodstock Festivals of viruses sitting on that period-the combined populations of Great Britain and France-and you would never know it. — Anonymous

the philosophy of men who, instead of exteriorising the objects of their aspirations, endeavour to extract from the accumulation of the years already spent a fixed residue of habits and passions which they can regard as characteristic and permanent, and with which they will deliberately arrange, before anything else, that the kind of existence they choose to adopt shall not prove inharmonious. — Marcel Proust

Proof' is the hallmark of religion. — Bill Gaede

There are limits to self-improvement. Inevitably you hit the point where what you are is, well, what you are, and all the teach-yourself videos and easy-to-use equipment on those creatinous home TV shopping things can no longer ward off you confrontation with your self. — Jessica Zafra

I should like friendship with you ... and trust. I should like that respect for each other which grows in the breast without demand for the huddlings of sex. — Frank Herbert

Eggshells become hard to break after walking on them for so long. — Mia Castile

When black America is on the move, America is on the move. — Cornel West

While my writing does seem to ultimately have a lot to do with pantsing in the end, without the plotting, I'd get nowhere to begin with. — Violet Duke

Even if I don't have a job, I work on plays and scenes. — Jeff Goldblum

Still earth shall only earth remain,
Let luck its course unfold,
And I in my own kingdom reign
Immutable and cold. — Mihai Eminescu

All have some artificial badge which the world, and themselves among the first, learn to consider as a genuine characteristic. — Nathaniel Hawthorne