#rely

Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#imaginative #language #more #necessary #plain

Creativity often consists of merely turning up what is already there. Did you know that right and left shoes were thought up only a little more than a century ago? ↗

— Bernice Fitz-Gibbon

#already #century #consists #creativity #did

Christians need to take the lead in educating people that children are gifts, as my autistic grandson most surely is. By going down the path we're currently on, we might one day get rid of genetic diseases, but only at the cost of our own humanity. ↗

— Charles Colson

#children #christians #cost #currently #day

I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because people's lives don't have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying. ↗

— Bill Condon

#dramatic #i #lives #people #rarely

I think computer viruses should count as life. I think it says something about human nature that the only form of life we have created so far is purely destructive. We've created life in our own image. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#about #computer #count #created #destructive

Price is rarely the most important thing. A cheap product might sell some units. Somebody gets it home and they feel great when they pay the money, but then they get it home and use it and the joy is gone. ↗

— Tim Cook

#feel #get #gets #gone #great

My mission was always intended to be slightly outside the public eye, because that makes me appear more interesting than I really am. A lot of people don't realise that merely by staying away, you can create a myth. ↗

— Julian Cope

#am #appear #away #because #create

Yet if anyone believes that the earth rotates, surely he will hold that its motion is natural, not violent. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

#believes #earth #hold #motion #natural

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. ↗

— Bill Cosby

#beautifully #child #commit #having #irrational

Reasoning at every step he treads, Man yet mistakes his way, Whilst meaner things, whom instinct leads, Are rarely known to stray. ↗

— William Cowper

#every step #his #his way #instinct #known