I was always interested in choreography – in making people think and feel something.

To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is.

It’s a representation of yourself, and you can express a lot of your creativity with what your wearing.

You do things when the opportunities come along. I’ve had periods in my life when I’ve had a bundle of ideas come along, and I’ve had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I’ll do something. If not, I won’t do a damn thing.

Good ideas are free – or at least they should be.

I’m honored that everybody’s inspired off my inspiration.

The joys of parents are secret, and so are their grieves and fears.

I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.

She said the object and color in the materials around us actually have a physical effect on us, on how we feel.

It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art.

‚The Lady’s World‘ should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women’s opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.

Hip-hop saved my life, man. It’s the only thing I’ve ever been even decent at. I don’t know how to do anything else.

The art of acting consists in keeping people from coughing.

I have my permanent muses and my muses of the moment.

To have in general but little feeling, seems to be the only security against feeling too much on any particular occasion.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

It’s time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.

If my films don’t show a profit, I know I’m doing something right.

I was a sociology major. And it had nothing to do necessarily with law, which is ultimately – I went to law school. But what I tried to do was choose something that I was passionate about or something that I cared about.

We have no right to express an opinion until we know all of the answers.

‚Harry Potter‘ gave me back self respect. Harry gave me a job to do that I loved more than anything else.

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting, but I cannot, suffering as I am, do without something which is greater than I am, which is my life, the power to create.

To witness two lovers is a spectacle for the gods.

Nashville is my home, and the reason why I get to do what I love.

I design things to help people to hopefully express their personality.

Where would I be without baseball? Who am I without baseball?

I don’t know, I feel desperate when I sing. And I look desperate – it feels like I’m singing for my life, which makes me twitch, if that makes sense.

Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I’m not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

Desperation is a necessary ingredient to learning anything, or creating anything. Period. If you ain’t desperate at some point, you ain’t interesting.

You see, you are a spirit, you have a soul, and you live in a body. You have emotions, you have thoughts, you have a will, and you have a conscience. You are a complex being! And Jesus came to heal every single part of you. There’s not one part that He doesn’t want to make completely whole.

We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value.

It is better to imitate ancient than modern work.

The word ‚happy‘ would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.

Happiness is within the reach of everyone, rich or poor. Yet comparatively few people are happy. I believe the reason for this is that the majority don’t recognize happiness even when it is within their grasp.

My view is there’s no bad time to innovate.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

I’m an inventor.

Beauty without expression is boring.

Everything that’s created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.

The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.

I welcome and seek your ideas, but do not bring me small ideas; bring me big ideas to match our future.

Some of the stories I admire seem to zero in on one particular time and place. There isn’t a rule about this. But there’s a tidy sense about many stories I read. In my own work, I tend to cover a lot of time and to jump back and forward in time, and sometimes the way I do this is not very straightforward.

Every artist wants something different out the game.

The man of knowledge must be able not only to love his enemies but also to hate his friends.

It’s still scary every time I go back to the past. Each morning, my heart catches. When I get there, I remember how the light was, where the draft was coming from, what odors were in the air. When I write, I get all the weeping out.

People wanted me to do a CD-ROM of ‚Hitchhiker’s,‘ and I thought, ‚No, no.‘ I didn’t want to just sort of reverse-engineer yet another thing from a book I’d already written. I think that the digital media are interesting enough in their own right to be worth originating something in.

Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.

I am not a particularly thick-skinned person.

I think every chef, not just in America, but across the world, has a double-edged sword – two jackets, one that’s driven, a self-confessed perfectionist, thoroughbred, hate incompetence and switch off the stove, take off the jacket and become a family man.

I could talk all day, T stands for talking, T stands for tender, T stands for things that don’t even rhyme with T.

We’re just enthusiastic about what we do.

If your heart is a volcano, how shall you expect flowers to bloom?

There has to be something in every role that interests you.

Art raises its head where creeds relax.

As a musician and a songwriter, it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.

Enthusiasm is the most important thing in life.

We write for the same reason that we walk, talk, climb mountains or swim the oceans – because we can. We have some impulse within us that makes us want to explain ourselves to other human beings. That’s why we paint, that’s why we dare to love someone – because we have the impulse to explain who we are.