Inspiring Creativity Locks Quotes & Sayings

He spared a moment to hope that Edmund Herondale would find comfort in the arms of his beautiful mundane love, that he would live a life that made all he had lost and all he had suffered seem worthwhile. — Cassandra Clare

His oratorical baritone was raspy and supercilious under the strain. "You say you are not interested," he told Wolfe, "in the factors of means and opportunity. The motive is palpable for all of us, but it is also palpable that Miss Duday is biased by animus. She cannot support her statement that after June thirtieth my income from the corporation would have ceased. I deny that Miss Eads intended to take any action so ill advised and irresponsible. — Rex Stout

I think people ought to do what they feel useful at the time. If I do things because I ought to do them, I switch off. — Matthew Macfadyen

Sometimes I wish I had never saved your neck from decapitation in Faroe. Then I could just descend into lewdness in peace. — Natalia Marx

You can borrow my Blackbird, if you like,' said Ben. This was his new fountain pen, which troubled him. It was guaranteed not to leak but writers and schoolchildren knew better. Ben wished to be relieved of the responsibility of the Blackbird, without losing his own dignity. — Penelope Fitzgerald

Use of No Use is Great Use. (Chuang Tzu) — Sung Yee Poon

Greece is internationally famous for three reasons. First it has more islands than people. Second, it used to be a part of Turkey. Third, its national hero, Alexander the Great, was a Yugoslavian. — Fatima Bhutto

My company is called Talking Monkey, Inc. It's because that's what I think all people are: talking monkeys. — Joe Rogan

Rule 1: All rules can be broken. Many (ex-legal and ethical) should be. Most people won't. — Marc Andreessen

You don't have to be big to be great. — Dominika Cibulkova

We repose an unwise confidence in any government, or in any men, when we invest them officially with too much, or an unnecessary quantity of, discretionary power. — Thomas Paine

When I was younger, I think I intimidated people much more because I was far more insecure. — Claire Forlani

Without intention, all these postures, these breathing practices, meditations, and the like can become little more than ineffectual gestures. When animated by intention, however, the simplest movement, the briefest meditation, and the contents of one breath cycle are made potent. — Donna Farhi

Politics and sports are the same thing in some ways. I like sports; I don't like the sports aspect of politics. The conventions are basically the playoffs, and the election's the Super Bowl. To me, it doesn't feel important. — Hari Kondabolu