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Creativity is piercing the mundane to find the marvelous.

When I look at some of my old work, the pieces I find most interesting are the ones with people in them.

When you're me, when you're R. Kelly, everybody wants a piece of you, and if you don't give 'em a piece they'll find a way to get a piece of you one way or the other.

I picked up the writing on the very day he died. It was the only consolation I could find.

I try to pick characters that I find interesting and complex and that I feel I can bring something of myself to.

Friends, near or far, are important to us. All of ours have an awareness of other persons' feelings, a courtesy that's inevitable. When I find that consideration in a fan, I'm immediately impressed.

Personally I find there is just as much if not more creativity among game makers as there is among feature filmmakers.

Everything we know by heart enriches us and helps us find ourselves. If it should get in the way of finding ourselves, it is because we have no personality.

When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives means the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand.

To know a person's religion we need not listen to his profession of faith but must find his brand of intolerance.

People go to college to find who they are as a person and find what they want to do in life, and I kind of already know that so it would be like I'd be taking a step back or something.

But that was war. Just about all he could find in its favor was that it paid well and liberated children from the pernicious influence of their parents.

I always find that 90% of the performance, for me, is about what comes from inside.

There is a joke that your hammer will always find nails to hit. I find that perfectly acceptable.

That's why you find a lot of entertainers are insecure, because it's the perfect camouflage for insecurity.

I hope to find the perfect band as well, I really do, and I'm working very hard to find that band.

You're perceived as being a success if you find a job in some big city and work with hundreds of other people and draw a paycheck every month.

People in the Pentagon had colleagues killed and maimed by bin Laden. They're trying to find bin Laden and kill him and his cult. Naturally they consider that a legitimate thing to do, but they're having mixed success at the job.

Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

You don't have to be peculiar to find God.

You find out your mistakes from an audience that pays admission.

Find patience in the breath of life.

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.

Certainly the most diverse, if minor, pastime of literary life is the game of Find the Author.

If we open a quarrel between past and present, we shall find that we have lost the future.

A safe but sometimes chilly way of recalling the past is to force open a crammed drawer. If you are searching for anything in particular you don't find it, but something falls out at the back that is often more interesting.

In the last couple of years I've been facing down a lot of the demons of the past and trying to find out, who I am, It's something I think I'll be doing for the rest of my life.

I like to take on the thing I don't like at the moment. I like to find something that looks wrong or feels off, something that I would never have done in the past, like brocade. And then all of a sudden, if we can make brocade work, then we've really done something, because I hate it. And that's just a reference. I don't actually hate brocade.

I want to force the other drivers to find a way past me.

There isn't a dearth of it, but I will confess that it's harder for me to find songs on which I'm willing to invest anything from ten to fifteen hours writing an arrangement than it was in times past.