Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.
Michael J. Gelb
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J.K. ROWLING My refusal to remove the book from the library was backed by a majority of the Board of Governors. I...
J.K. ROWLING It is no bad thing celebrating a simple life.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Though he walked and breathed, and about him living leaves and flowers were stirred by the same cool...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN You take after Bilbo,' said Gandalf. 'There is more about you than meets the eye, as I said of him l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Welcome the closing of an old door, for it is then that a new door shall open.
SCOTTIE SOMERS You are wise and fearless and fair, Lady Galadriel,' said Frodo. 'I will give you the One Ring, if y...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Let go! Gollum,' he said. 'This is Sting. You have seen it before once upon a time. Let go, or you'l...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN Frodo gave a cry, and there he was, fallen upon his knees at the chasm's edge. But Gollum, dancing l...
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J. RUTH GENDLER The light sprang up again, and there on the brink of the chasm, at the very Crack of Doom, stood Fro...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN The San Francisco skyline sparkles in the distance, the bay spread out before it like a shark-infest...
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JAMES DASHNER Smeagol,' said Gollum suddenly and clearly, opening his eyes wide and staring at Frodo with a strang...
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CHINONYE J. CHIDOLUE And, selfish and scared, I wonder how much more he has to give.
NEIL GAIMAN Don't worry about it, Mikey," Dee said comfortingly. "You'll probably be next, so you won't be here ...
L.J. SMITH don’t say you’se ole. You’se uh lil girl baby all de time. God made it so you spent yo’ ole ...
ZORA NEALE HURSTON ... by stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development...
MICHAEL J. GELB Research shows that you begin learning in the womb and go right on learning until the moment you pas...
MICHAEL J. GELB Champions know that success is inevitable; that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. Th...
MICHAEL J. GELB Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious data base outweighs the conscious on an order excee...
MICHAEL J. GELB A champion views resistance as a gift of energy.
MICHAEL J. GELB Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriousl...
MICHAEL J. GELB Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.
MICHAEL J. GELB We had some students who put on Radio 1, but the sheep didn't like the thumping beat at all. They ju...
KAREN WRIGHT Shut the front door!” Jenna exclaimed.
Andrew disappeared into the foyer, and when he r...
LAURA KREITZER I realize something. I haven't had a single flashback or panic attack since I stepped inside the hou...
J.P. DELANEY I don't know if I have a favorite color.
KATE MIDDLETON It's very special having a new little girl.
KATE MIDDLETON I see that you are an elf-friend; the light in your eyes and the ring in your voice tells it.
J.R.R. TOLKIEN There is no client as scary as an innocent man."
J. Michael Haller, Criminal Defen...
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SAMMY DAVIS, JR. You want to see the boy next door?...(then) don't go see Michael Jackson, because he ain't the boy n...
SAMMY DAVIS JR. At the end of the day, Boston is going to run out of cash ahead of J&J. Boston's really going to hav...
BRUCE NUDELL We welcome the prompt action taken by the Burnley magistrates to jail Michael Lewis for five months ...
BRIAN BARWICK The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS Poems, for me, begin as a social engagement. I want to establish a kind of sociability or even hospi...
BILLY COLLINS He thought much but said little.
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PATRICK J. ADAMS The psychology of individual creativity is about at least three different things. First, creativity ...
MAX MCKEOWN She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.
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NEIL GAIMAN What is the Other?" they ask.
The Other is the one who taught me whatI should be like, but not ...
PAULO COELHO To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
GARY F EVANS... Today is about the now, the moment you live in, so do now what you want to do
SOTONYE ANGA She had about her a strong smell of hair-spray and her lunch-time whisky.
ELIZABETH TAYLOR I'll find you, don't worry. My body won't be with you all the time, but you'll always have my heart....
P.C. CAST But why, why, why can't people just say what they mean?
GRAEME SIMSION Look, my friends!' he called. 'Here's a pretty hobbit-skin to wrap an elven princeling in! If it wer...
J.R.R. TOLKIEN We put out the welcome mat and we were trampled upon, ... We all wanted to help, but we never though...
JULIA RENFRO The river of knowledge has no depth.
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C. JOYBELL C. Anyone would welcome a player like Michael back into the team. He'll be on a high after signing for ...
DAVID BECKHAM What happened is there were feces on the mat. Someone had diarrhea on the mat.
TOM MEIXNER It's all to do with the training: you can do a lot if you're properly trained.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Like all best families, we have our share of eccentricities, of impetuous and wayward youngsters and...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II My husband has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years, and I owe him a debt greater ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have to be seen to be believed.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service, as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughou...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I hope that tomorrow we can all, wherever we are, join in expressing our grief at Diana's loss, ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I myself prefer my New Zealand eggs for breakfast.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have behind me not only the splendid traditions and the annals of more than a thousand years but t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To what greater inspiration and counsel can we turn than to the imperishable truth to be found in th...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II First, I want to pay tribute to Diana myself. She was an exceptional and gifted human being. In good...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something e...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts an...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Grief is the price we pay for love.
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II At its heart, engineering is about using science to find creative, practical solutions. It is a nobl...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Chr...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II For many, Christmas is also a time for coming together. But for others, service will come first.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The lessons from the peace process are clear; whatever life throws at us, our individual responses w...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I declare before you all that my whole life, whether it be long or short, shall be devoted to your s...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Therefore I am sure that this, my Coronation, is not the symbol of a power and a splendor that are g...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the man...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II These wretched babies don't come until they are ready.
QUEEN ELIZABETH II I know of no single formula for success. But over the years I have observed that some attributes of ...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II The events that I have attended to mark my Diamond Jubilee have been a humbling experience. It has t...
QUEEN ELIZABETH II In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace ...
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QUEEN ELIZABETH II I have been aware all the time that my peoples, spread far and wide throughout every continent and o...
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J.D. SALINGER The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
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CHARLES HOWARD Hail to you gods, on that day of the great reckoning. Behold me, I have come to you, without sin, wi...
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MICHAEL J. FOX It's really important to me to keep growing as a writer, to look for new challenges and be harsh...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI If I feel that I'm not able to do my best work - whether that's my own fault or as a result ...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Verily, for nine hundred years have I lost. Everyone I knew is dead, the empire gone, and who knows ...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN If this hast been done to language, I fear to know the fate of all else.
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN When I was younger, I was always described as happy-go-lucky.
MICHAEL J. FOX On the Internet, inside information is currency, and there will always be counterfeiters among us.
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI You don’t win battles with hate. Anger and hate can make you brave, make you strong, but they also...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I had all the usual ambition growing up. I wanted to be a writer, a musician, a hockey player. I wan...
MICHAEL J. FOX There was a point when comics were considered to be mainly of interest to kids, and it was decided t...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI The rumor mill will always grind the grain of misinformation into the flour of untruth and the peopl...
J. MICHAEL BREWER I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look a...
MICHAEL J. FOX The whole point of having great characters is the opportunity to explore them more deeply with time,...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI Some of the best friends you'll ever meet in your life, you'll meet though your children--mothers an...
MICHAEL J. FOX Real arms races are run by highly intelligent, bespectacled engineers in glass offices thoughtfully ...
MICHAEL J. BEHE The result of these cumulative efforts to investigate the cell—to investigate life at the molecula...
MICHAEL J. BEHE Is the conclusion that the universe was designed - and that the design extends deeply into life - sc...
MICHAEL J. BEHE The conclusion of intelligent design flows naturally from the data itself—not from sacred books or...
MICHAEL J. BEHE Random mutations much more easily debilitate genes than improve them, and that this is true even of ...
MICHAEL J. BEHE There's a lot of comics writers out there whose work I appreciate and who are nice guys. I reall...
J. MICHAEL STRACZYNSKI You've probably read in People that I'm a nice guy - but when the doctor first told me I had...
MICHAEL J. FOX Everyone stared in shock at the pool of white robes and the bright-red blood that began to stain the...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN First and foremost, the chicken was flooded with bad omens in the same overwhelming manner that Suri...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN A wise man once told me no man can escape death, but it’s how we run that defines us. And if I hav...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN It was like waiting for the sunrise and a chicken to hatch— if the sun marked the end of the world...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Ferrol’s Law was created for ordinary Fhrey, not the Miralyith,” Gryndal said. “The Art has el...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Well, do you still make that marvelous wine? The pale red one, with a hint of nuts? I’ve boasted a...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Do you see the butterfly?” Suri grinned with enthusiasm.
“Yes, I see it, but—”
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MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN I want to know how long we have before he rises. If I cut off his head, will he stay down longer?”...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Freedom, he discovered, had built a greater prison than his family or clan had.
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN How are you speaking?” Gryndal asked.
“With my mouth,” she said. “Does everyone play th...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Remember, it’s easier to believe an outlandish lie confirming what you suspect than the most obvio...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN What length will a mother go to on behalf of her child? How long is time? What is the depth of love?...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Strange game, this stating the obvious,” Suri said, shaking her head. She got up and joined Minna ...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Why are you here?”
“Oh— I came to tell the chieftain we’re going to die.” The girl sa...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Caught early enough, the waking forest had no time to disguise itself into something mundane. This w...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Sunlight had a way of showing the realities that shadows born of firelight hid. The
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN No god, goddess, or spirit would ever inhabit or employ a chicken.
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN That night there was more than one killer in the forest, the next day a lot more ghosts.--The Book o...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN When faced with certain death, running is sensible, but I think a man can make an unhealthy habit of...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN Suri had a wolf named Minna. They were the best of friends and roamed the forest together. She had t...
MICHAEL J. SULLIVAN