Crescive Quotes & Sayings

Failure is the seed of success — Kaoru Ishikawa

I was poor once, I didn't like it, I don't want to be poor again. — Jim Rogers

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. — Elizabeth Hardwick

These poets here, you see, they are not of this world:let them live their strange life; let them be cold and hungry, let them run, love and sing: they are as rich as Jacques Coeur, all these silly children, for they have their souls full of rhymes, rhymes which laugh and cry, which make us laugh or cry: Let them live: God blesses all the merciful: and the world blesses the poets. — Arthur Rimbaud

[S]ex no longer frightens people; it can no longer be used to develop a sense of guilt, and thereby to force submission. — Erich Fromm

Actually, most things I say in public lead more or less directly to my own compositional practice, so I should be careful about generalizing lest they come back to haunt me. — Brian Ferneyhough

Industry is the ceaseless piracy of the rich against the poor. — Emma Goldman

He waits until dark. Marie-Laure sits in the mouth of the wardrobe, the false back open, and listens to her uncle switch on the microphone and the transmitter in the attic. His mild voice speaks numbers into the garret. Then music plays, soft and low, full of cellos tonight . . . — Anthony Doerr

And he who would be friends with God must remain alone, or make the whole world his friend — Mahatma Gandhi

Late night is no different than making a film, really, except that it's faster, and if you do a crap one, you can do a better one tomorrow. Writing a novel and doing stand-up - that stuff is very similar. — Craig Ferguson

I am in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, great activist-type artists. But I'm also in the lineage of a Miles Davis - you know, that liked nice things also. — Kanye West