Ellis Paul Torrance Quotes

#1. Meticulousness is the better part of serendipity.

Reginald Hill

#2. There is no food more satiating than milk and honey; and just as such foods produce disgust for the palate, so perfumed and gallant words make our ears belch.

Pietro Aretino

#3. One's self-image and image of the future have a great deal to do with what that person is motivated to do and able to do, as well as the extent to which he is able to change his behavior.

Ellis Paul Torrance

#4. A lot of people are living in a dream world - they want to deny that aging occurs or believe it doesn't have to occur. They'll hold on to this belief until the moment they die. The reality will eventually hit them.

S. Jay Olshansky

#5. She was another gift, surely, to us all. She was a happiness that made me cry.

Wendell Berry

#6. I'm fortunate enough that I don't have to accept every movie that comes along.

Claudia Schiffer

#7. Creativity is a distinctive trait of human excellence in all domains of behavior.

Ellis Paul Torrance

#8. Love of honor is a very shady sort of possession.

Herodotus

#9. If I could bronze my love, it'd be worthy of a silver medal.

Dark Jar Tin Zoo

#10. Being an actress, I find myself people-watching and I can be quite shy.

Emma Watson

#11. That's the problem - our lives have stopped and the world keeps going round.

Delphine De Vigan

#12. Next time I get sick, you can tell that to me. You can be my girl in the mountains."
"Okay", I say."I'll be your mountain girl and take care of you.

Gayle Forman

#13. A nation without patriotism won't win any war.

Toba Beta

#14. The IWW [Industrial Workers of the World] has been accused of pushing women to the front. This is not true. Rather, the women have not been kept in back, and so they have naturally moved to the front.

Elizabeth Gurley Flynn

#15. One of the most powerful wellsprings of creative energy, outstanding accomplishment, and self-fulfillment seems to be falling in love with something - your dreams, your image of the future.

Ellis Paul Torrance

#16. Creativity is the process of sensing problems or gaps in information, then identifying the difficulties and seeking solutions through trial and error or through forming hypotheses.

Ellis Paul Torrance

#17. Photography, for me, is something I can control fully. It's wholly my own expressions.

Mia Wasikowska

#18. As we grow older we grow both more foolish and wiser at the same time.

Francois De La Rochefoucauld

#19. Paris is one of the fashion capitals of the world and such an incredible breeding ground for designers. You can't help but find it an inspiring place.

Alice Temperley