"Words are small straitjackets when put around creative flourishes and maneuverings."

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Robert Genn

#Creative Quotes

“What I'm not saying is that all government spending is bad. It's not - far, far from it, but there is no free lunch, as a former colleague of mine used to say. There is no public tooth fairy. Father Christmas does not work on the Treasury staff this year. You can never bail someone out of trouble without putting someone else into trouble.”
“Eternal love is a myth, but we make our myths, and we love them to death.”

Source : Natalie Angier (1999). “Woman: An Intimate Geography”, p.377, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“We're out there somewhere between the known and the unknown, trying to reel in both for a closer look.”
“Until recent times, absence of evidence for his [Jehovah's] existence has not been sufficient to rule him out. However, we now have enough knowledge that we can identify many places where there should be evidence, but there is not. The absence of that evidence allows us to rule out the existence of this God beyond a reasonable doubt.”
“To me it is no mystery that we can only photograph effectively what we are truly interested in or-maybe more importantly-are grappling with. Often unconsciously. Otherwise the photographs are merely about an idea or a concept-that stuff eventually falls flat for me-there must be something more, some emotional hook for it to really work for me.”

Source : "A conversation with Todd Hido". Interview with Joerg Colberg, jmcolberg.com. June 18, 2007.
“Sometimes all you need is 20 seconds of insane courage”
“Anyone and everyone can and will succeed.”
“We've made tremendous strides and changes in the City of New York since 1994.”

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