inventiveness and playfulness and life force (these are…

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you cramped and insane your whole life Besides, perfectionism…

— Anne Lamott

Something I always wanted to do, to capture that later half of the '70s. It's like the early half of the '70s is still…

— Daniel Clowes

My personal sense of humor is edgy, I would say more cable-like: words you're not allowed to say, ideas that the majority of people…

— Mary Elizabeth Ellis

The more words we are allowed to take, the freer we become. If our mouth is banned, then we attempt to assert ourselves through…

— Herta Muller

I began in an era where four-letter words were not allowed.

— Pat Morita

Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor; the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.

— Anne Lamott

Anywhere the struggle is great, the level of ingenuity and inventiveness is high.

— Eleni Zaude Gabre-Madhin

It’s the Muslims who are dragging the rest of the world with them, in their genocidal dreams of annihilating goodness, creativity, production, inventiveness, benevolence,…

— Pamela Geller

Those who applaud social production and networked amateurism, the colorful cacophony that is the Internet, and the creative capacities of everyday people to produce…

— Astra Taylor

I loathed school. I don't have an academic mind, and besides I was so bored by my teachers! How teachers can take a child's…

— John Hurt

Creativity is more than mere imagination. It is imagination inseparably coupled with both intent and effort.

— Alex Faickney Osborn

Criticism occupies the lowest place in the literary hierarchy: as regards form, almost always; and as regards moral value, incontestably. It comes after rhyming…

— Gustave Flaubert

The attack on youth is a national pathology, unwarranted by fact, smokescreen for the failure of adulthood and its leadership to confront larger predicaments.…

— Mike A. Males

We have six-and-a-half-billion people on the planet, going rapidly towards seven. We're going to need a lot of inventiveness about how we use water…

— Nina Fedoroff

This is one of the glories of man, the inventiveness of the human mind and the human spirit: whenever life doesn't seem to give…

— Lorraine Hansberry