Ada Louise Huxtable Quotes

Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.

Ada Louise Huxtable

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• I'm most at home on the stage. I was carried onstage for the first time when I was six months old.

  

  Alan Alda
  • Time
  • Home
  • Stage

• This life will never be without storms. Stop fearing the storm. Build your inner shelter.

  

  Yasmin Mogahed
  • Life
  • Stop
  • Storm

• How little people know who think that holiness is dull... When one meets the real thing, it's irresistible!

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• There's almost no content in terms of language at all. I don't like using language to convey meaning. I'd rather use images and music.

  

  Philip Glass
  • Music
  • Language
  • Content

• Poetry is like a puzzle-solving strategy for me. I like to poem my way through tricky questions and ideas. That's about the only consistent thread through my poem-creation process.

  

  Sarah Kay
  • Strategy
  • Consistent
  • Tricky

• Good times are always mutual; that is what makes good times.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Mutual
  • Good Times

• He brings to naught, destroys and rejects all that is not His own work; how He draws everything to Himself and absorbs it, that at last He may live and work in us and through us and reign alone as king. Happy the soul who refuses nothing to love, but places everything at His disposal, for only thus may all our works be done more and more in God.

  

  Gerhard Tersteegen
  • Draws
  • Destroys
  • Disposal

• Semicolons . . . signal, rather than shout, a relationship. . . . A semicolon is a compliment from the writer to the reader. It says: "I don't have to draw you a picture; a hint will do."

  

  George Will
  • Writing
  • Draws
  • Compliment

• Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Science
  • Simple
  • Profound

• When there is very little else left to believe in, one can still believe in an honest loaf of fragrant, home-baked bread.

  

  Anna Thomas
  • Believe
  • Bread
  • Fragrant

• Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.

  

  Ada Louise Huxtable
  • Draws
  • Vacuum
  • Creative Act