"I create work, and I devote myself to the creative process, and I try to stay pure in that process and be worthy of the messages that I receive. You can't sit down and write 300 compositions in a three-month period and think that you're doing it all by yourself."

-- John Zorn

#Writing Quotes #Thinking Quotes #Creative Quotes

“When I kissed you, you didn't mind. I thought I tasted of too many cigarettes, but you tasted like wine.”
“And now - Plato's words mock me in the shadows on the ledge behind the flames: '...the men of the cave would say of him that up he went and down he came without his eyes.”
“And getting older, what's happening is, I play only mothers.”
“Although awareness of cancer's prevalence in the United States improves and medical advances in the field abound, pancreatic cancer has largely been absent from the list of major success stories.”
“And I felt sorry, and I have felt bad about what happened.”
“When Lord Kelvin was in this country [U.S.], he said that nothing interested him so much as Mr. Hewitt's work and his vacuum lamp.”
“'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies the presence of just as ugly a sin in one case as in the other. If a man lies under oath or procures the lie of another under oath, if he perjures himself or suborns perjury, he is guilty under the statute law.”
“Morale is the greatest single factor in successful wars.”

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