Creativity Quotes, page 5

“Puns are the highest form of literature.”

“I like a woman with a head on her shoulders. I hate necks.”

“The human body is the best work of art.”

“I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.”

“One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got in my pajamas I'll never know.”

“I cook with wine, sometimes I even add it to the food.”

“This book was written using 100% recycled words.”

“I know that David Tennant's Hamlet isn't till July. And lots of people are going to be doing Dr Who in Hamlet jokes, so this is just me getting it out of the way early, to avoid the rush...”

“He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.”

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells.”

“Do you know what breakfast cereal is made of? It's made of all those little curly wooden shavings you find in pencil sharpeners!”

“An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.”

“To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.”

“The play was a great success, but the audience was a dismal failure.”

“Let's be reasonable and add an eighth day to the week that is devoted exclusively to reading.”

“I've been accused of vulgarity. I say that's bullshit.”

“The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.”

“Now what state do you live in?”

“"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife," I said, sighing. "Is it?" Veronica asked, surprised. "Universally acknowledged? Surely that presupposes societies beyond this planet, and besides..." "No, no, it's a quote from... Never mind," I said.”

“The scientists of today think deeply instead of clearly. One must be sane to think clearly, but one can think deeply and be quite insane.”

“If you want to find the secrets of the universe, think in terms of energy, frequency, and vibration.”

“My method is different. I do not rush into actual work. When I get an idea, I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements, and operate the device entirely in my mind.”

“If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.”

“The hard work of the future will be pushing buttons.”

“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”

“Keep it simple.”

“I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious.”

“Intuition is something that is ahead of accurate knowledge.”

“Don't make yourself small for anyone. Be the awkward, funny, intelligent, beautiful little weirdo that you are. Don't hold back. Weird it out.”

“Strong minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; weak minds discuss people.”