Creatorial Quotes & Sayings

I work in a giant building:
forty floors and forty cubicles
per wing, four wings per floor,
one person and one personal
computer per cubicle, a labyrinth
in which everyone's goal is to stay lost. — John Engman

We have banished our artists to the fringe of society and tell them to eat cake. It is our artists who choose freedom over safety and use their talents to question and confront the culture. — Peter Block

I can't do this anymore, I think, my own voice almost lost in the storm. I can't do this anymore. I can't face this on my own. I am drowning in this river and I am haunted in this house my father built and my mind is breaking. — T.J. Klune

I'll confess that I don't watch the Olympics, but you'd have to be living under a rock to be unaware of the corruption and the expense. An amorphous organization with no transparency, unclear lines of responsibility, huge amounts of politics and a great deal of unearned power. — Seth Godin

Grant me that I may not be a coward, feeling your mercy in my success alone; but let me find the grasp of your hand in my failure. — Rabindranath Tagore

Ah, you mean the thing with the brass plate on it saying 'Improved Manicure Device,' Archchancellor? — Terry Pratchett

It would be almost a moon, however, before he could leave the hospital - his attack of appendicitis had been a severe one. Young — Elizabeth Foreman Lewis

There will come a time when nobody reads my books and no one remembers who I was. And in the meantime, I'll do it my way. — William T. Vollmann

In the wide land under a tender lucid evening sky, a cloud drifting westward amid a pale green sea of heaven, they stood together, children that had erred. — James Joyce

It is not sufficient, he emphasized, to colour (colorare) the mind with wisdom; it must be pickled (macerare) in it, as it were, soaked in it (inficere), and entirely transformed by it. — Peter Sloterdijk

It might be a long trip, so be careful not to wear your shoes out: you might need them in the afterlife. — Francis Bacon