A farmer is a magician who produces money from the mud.

Walking causes a repetitive, spontaneous poetry to rise naturally to the lips, words as simple as the sound of footsteps on the road. There also seems to be an echo of walking in the practice of two choruses singing a psalm in alternate verses, each on a single note, a practice that makes it possible to chant and listen by turns. Its main effect is one of repetition and alternation that St Ambrose compared to the sound of the sea: when a gentle surf is breaking quietly on the shore the regularity of the sound doesn't break the silence, but structures it and renders it audible. Psalmody in the same way, in the to-and-fro of alternating responses, produces (Ambrose said) a happy tranquillity in the soul. The echoing chants, the ebb and flow of waves recall the alternating movement of walking legs: not to shatter but to make the world's presence palpable and keep time with it. And just as Claudel said that sound renders silence accessible and useful, it ought to be said that walking renders presence accessible and useful.

Our culture has filled our heads but emptied our hearts, stuffed our wallets but starved our wonder. It has fed our thirst for facts but not for meaning or mystery. It produces "nice" people, not heroes.

Saepe creat molles aspera spina rosas" - "Often the prickly thorn produces tender roses

An artist is somebody who produces things that people don't need to have.

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

Because memory and sensations are so uncertain, so biased, we always rely on a certain reality-call it an alternate reality-to prove the reality of events. To what extent facts we recognize as such really are as they seem, and to what extent these are facts merely because we label them as such, is an impossible distinction to draw. Therefore, in order to pin down reality as reality, we need another reality to relativize the first. Yet that other reality requires a third reality to serve as its grounding. An endless chain is created within our consciousness, and it is the very maintenance of this chain that produces the sensation that we are actually here, that we ourselves exist.

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work but in the excellence of the work he produces.

Technology has not only changed the way people are able to view movies it has changed the way our industry produces and advertises movies.

Success produces confidence confidence relaxes industry and negligence ruins the reputation which accuracy had raised.

Science consistently produces a new crop of miraculous truths and dazzling devices every year.

So poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders.

The artist produces for the liberation of his soul. It is his nature to create as it is the nature of water to run down the hill.

Men do not shape destiny Destiny produces the man for the hour.

Much may be done in those little shreds and patches of time which every day produces and which most men throw away.

The cure for all the ills and wrongs the cares the sorrows and the crimes of humanity all lie in the one word 'love'. It is the divine vitality that everywhere produces and restores life.

Learning is any change in a system that produces a more or less permanent change in its capacity for adapting to its environment.

Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God so to speak. Or better we continue and extend it.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

With the brush we merely tint while the imagination alone produces colour.

In modern life nothing produces such an effect as a good platitude. It makes the whole world kin.

There is only one cure for the evils which newly acquired freedom produces and that cure is freedom.

No one who has lived even for a fleeting moment for something other than life in its conventional sense and has experienced the exaltation that this feeling produces can then renounce his new freedom so easily.

Corn is an efficient way to get energy calories off the land and soybeans are an efficient way of getting protein off the land so we've designed a food system that produces a lot of cheap corn and soybeans resulting in a lot of cheap fast food.