Uninventive Quotes

#1. In every company, there is not only the active and passive sex, but, in both men and women, a deeper and more important sex of mind, namely, the inventive or creative class of both men and women, and the uninventive or accepting class.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#2. Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.

Marcus Aurelius

#3. For a new generation, nature is more abstraction than reality.

Richard Louv

#4. To err is human," Amelia said, "to forgive, absolutely galling.

Lisa Kleypas

#5. People have such false perceptions of how stardom really works.

Marcia Gay Harden

#6. A person never forgets the landscape of their childhood'.

Kate Morton

#7. Self-admiration giveth much consolation.

Gertrude Atherton

#8. Science is not ... a perfect instrument, but it is a superb and invaluable tool that works harm only when taken as an end in itself.

Carl Jung

#9. I love comedy. That's what got me into the arts. I don't even know how to categorize myself anymore.

Steve Martin

#10. For me, the reason why people go to a mountaintop or go to the edge of the ocean is to look at something larger than themselves. That feeling of awe, of going to a cathedral, it's all about feeling lost in something bigger than oneself. To me, that's the definition of spectacle.

Diane Paulus

#11. Never play leapfrog with a unicorn.

Benny Hill

#12. In a lot of scientists, the ratio of wonder to skepticism declines in time. That may be connected with the fact that in some fields-mathematics, physics, some others-the great discoveries are almost entirely made by youngsters.

Carl Sagan

#13. Although people often equate them, glamour is not the same as beauty, stylishness, luxury, celebrity, or sex appeal. It is not limited to fashion or film; nor is it intrinsically feminine. It is not a collection of aesthetic markers - a style, as fashion and design use the word.

Virginia Postrel