Essentially a joke is creating an idea, whether sonic or visual, whether it’s something musical or a traditional joke. – Reggie Watts
I’m not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten. – Richard Scarry
For months I’ve been working on creating techniques to reproduce Swarovski crystals in sugar using the real stones to guide me. – Ron Ben-Israel
I think the idea of creating a television news source that is not beholden to corporate interests is nirvana. – Phil Donahue
If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs. – Richard Stallman
Songwriting is a very mysterious process. It feels like creating something from nothing. It’s something I don’t feel like I really control. – Tracy Chapman
The question remains: which brands will commit to creating a private sector pillar of social change, and which will become casualties of their own outdated thinking? – Simon Mainwaring
As a fashion designer, I was always aware that I was not an artist, because I was creating something that was made to be sold, marketed, used, and ultimately discarded. – Tom Ford
I don’t want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing. – Tatyana Tolstaya
Could the garment and appliance industries be in cahoots together, creating an artificial sock demand to keep us buying? – Tom Bodett
I was always taught to let the obstacles be your guide because they lead you to places that you wouldn’t have gone on your own. Instead of going through a rock, you go around it, creating a path. – Sante D’Orazio
The internet has become one of the motors of the 21st century economy, allowing all of us to reach a global audience at a click of a mouse and creating hundreds of thousands of businesses and millions of jobs. – Vint Cerf
While I tend to keep embellishment minimal as my clients often possess some of the finest jewellery, I enjoy creating ornamentation that appears like installations, to compliment the overall look. – Stephane Rolland
Atoms of Element 118 fill an outer shell with electrons, creating a special type of element called a noble gas. Noble gases are natural turning points on the table, ending one row and pointing to the next. – Sam Kean
We’re really going to be focused on economic growth and creating jobs, and that’s really going to be a priority. – Steve Mnuchin
If you’re creating something that has some sort of cultural currency – if the idea is getting out there – then that will probably yield money in some form, whether it’s through selling art or selling books or being asked to give a lecture. – Shepard Fairey
I started as a playwright. Any sort of scriptwriting you do helps you hone your story. You have the same demands of creating a plot, developing relatable characters and keeping your audience invested in your story. My books are basically structured like three-act plays. – Suzanne Collins
It’s remarkable that the failures of the Obama, Clinton, Kerry foreign policy are not only uniting the Left and Right in Israel but might even be creating some common ground between Israel and the Palestinian Authority. – Ted Cruz
But the approach to recording this album was kind of an organized, chaotic approach where I wanted to maintain and preserve that wild abandon to creating. – Vanessa Carlton
Words, yes, formulating things, creating something from your heart, it is something very necessary, yes. – Sophie Marceau
I take a lean-startup approach: creating agile, interdisciplinary teams that get the minimum viable product to market as soon as possible. It’s my job to be entrepreneur-in-residence, an internal change agent. – Todd Park