In our work, the question is, how much you absorb from others. So for me, creativity, is really like a relay race. As children we are handed a baton. Rather than passing it onto the next generation as is, first we need to digest it and make it our own.
It is always good to know, if only in passing, charming human beings. It refreshes one like flowers and woods and clear brooks.
A moment's thought is passion's passing knell.
The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
Who has seen the wind? Neither you nor I but when the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by.
I've never been a collector - just a consumer - and these days unless a book is signed to me by another author, I don't normally have any qualms about passing it to a friend or donating it to the library.
Women should never go without earrings. Passing on them is an opportunity missed.
Remember, passing judgment on someone else's character, is only a reflection of your own.
Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.
The best job goes to the person who can get it done without passing the buck or coming back with excuses.
The industrial-technological system may survive or it may break down. If it survives, it MAY eventually achieve a low level of physical and psychological suffering, but only after passing through a long and very painful period of adjustment and only at the cost of permanently reducing human beings and many other living organisms to engineered products and mere cogs in the social machine.
Memories begin to creep forward from hidden corners of your mind. Passing disappointments. Lost chances and lost causes. Heartbreaks and pain and desolate, horrible loneliness. Sorrows you thought long forgotten mingle with still-fresh wounds.
Of all the sacred places on the coast, none is more comforting than where rivers join the sea. By the river's disappearance we are reminded of life's passing, while by the ocean's beauty we accept it, in a hope we cannot explain.
I like to score a proper goal, you know - a passing move.
After a war life catches desperately at passing hints of normalcy like vines entwining a hollow twig.
Somehow I reached excess without ever noticing when I was passing through satisfaction.
She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on shore among human beings are of the moment, passing, and aren't the stories by way of which the greater tale of this planet will, in the end, be told.
I used to pretend that I was just passing through this family on my way to my real one.
Prayer is faith passing into action.
Just as we bemoan the passing away of the Great Novel, a great novelist is likely to emerge, perhaps even from Denmark or Switzerland, to prove us wrong.