If plants could be credited with reasoning powers, we would marvel at the imaginative ways they bribe or ensnare other creatures to… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I'm dyslexic. If you can reconcile yourself to not being able to burn through books, which you shouldn't any way, you can… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
In many ways, astrology, numerology and palmistry are corruptions of the occult because they have attempted to make a practice out of… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
We cannot, even given our most imaginative efforts, construct a concept of Self that does not impute some causal influence of prior… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
[The career a young man should choose should be] one that is most consonant with our dignity, one that is based on… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice… As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
The effect, if not the prime office, of criticism is to make our absorption and our enjoyment of the things that feed… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth… Dramabegins where there's freedom of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Since I was a graduate student, I've done a lot of journalism on the side, for The Village Voice, The Nation etc.… — Rob Nixon Copy Share Image
I think I'd rather do [acting] in the real place. It requires different things, working with green screen, but its an imaginative… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
The prose of Joe Pulver can take its place with that of the masters of our genre – E.A. Poe, H.P. Lovecraft,… — S. T. Joshi Copy Share Image
We will destroy you,” the Flyboys droned. “You have no escape.” That was the most imaginative, threatening thing the whitecoats had programmed… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic. And I think you never… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
The actor shouldn't edit themselves or be anxious. And the actors that I admire are always the ones who are inventive and… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
“The imaginative is produced by the human mind as it tries to respond to something greater than itself, struggling to find images… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
As a child, I read a great many books in which animals and birds played significant roles, not only in the narrative… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have all… — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
But to read all Scripture narratives as if they were eye-witness reports in a modern newspaper, and to ignore the poetic and… — J. I. Packer Copy Share Image
Imaginative literature primarily pleases rather than teaches. It is much easier to be pleased than taught, but much harder to know why… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A relationship is an imaginative act, it's an act of creation. Someone said to me the other day that a relationship between… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
Halloween's coming. Kids get very imaginative in my neighborhood. Last year, three kids showed up as Goldman Sachs executives and demanded 4.5… — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
It's always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings,… — David Almond Copy Share Image
The creative consequences of man's imaginative strivings may never make him whole; but they constitute his deepest consolations and his greatest glories. — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
And it’s only by going nowhere - by sitting still or letting my mind relax - that I find that the thoughts… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
One of the sad realities today is that very few people, especially young people, read books. Unless we can find imaginative ways… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
They [the Hardscrabbles]never enjoyed it when adults playfully lied to them. The adults always think they're being amusing and imaginative, just like… — Ellen Potter Copy Share Image
Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
[John] Adams was the best and most colorful stylist among the Founders. Although [Tomas] Jefferson is widely regarded as the smoothest writer,… — Gordon S. Wood Copy Share Image
I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care… — Jonathan Demme Copy Share Image
A lot of kids are broken, and it's hard for them to believe in anything. But you have to have an imaginative… — Torii Hunter Copy Share Image
I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process,… — Alain Robbe-Grillet Copy Share Image
I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer because I had the… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
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![“I think I'd rather do [acting] in the real place. It requires different things, working with green screen, but its an imaginative exercise anyway, the whole business of acting, so it just gives you a bit more to feed the imagination. Unless it's really silly, just two of you stuck in a space with…” quote by John Hurt](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/2b5/john-hurt-1669_acting_i-think-i-d-rather-do-acting-in-the-real_1472559.png)
![“They [the Hardscrabbles]never enjoyed it when adults playfully lied to them. The adults always think they're being amusing and imaginative, just like children. But kids never lie playfully. They lie as if their lives depended on it.” quote by Ellen Potter](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/08a/ellen-potter-22965_adults_they-the-hardscrabbles-never-enjoyed-it_2520569.jpg)
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