I took to it very quickly. I'm very imaginative anyway, and it just set off that part of my brain. It made… — Dennis Haysbert Copy Share Image
Some people like to paint pictures, or do gardening, or build a boat in the basement. Other people get a tremendous pleasure… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
This can be one of cheerfulness or gloom because color which is so inexpensive, is what does the trick. Not color alone… — Dorothy Draper Copy Share Image
I get imaginative with a mouth full of adjectives, A brain full of adverbs, and a box full of laxatives, Shittin' on… — Eminem Copy Share Image
The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
On the spectrum of imagination, there are people who are more imaginative than others - I guess some kids are hardcore pretenders… — Bryce Dallas Howard Copy Share Image
My mind wanders terribly. I'm not wholly annoyed by my daydreaming as it has been immense use to me as regards imaginative… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
Surrounding yourself with creative, imaginative people is a good strategy for success whether you're an entrepreneur seeking innovation or an artist looking… — Harvey Mackay Copy Share Image
Fantasy is a literature particularly useful for embodying and examining the real difference between good and evil. In an America where our… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Puzzlement and doubt are, however, already crimes in the totalitarian state. The mind that is open for questions is open for dissent.… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
As I started to read nonfiction in the mid '70s, I discovered, holy cow, there was a lot of imaginative nonfiction. Not… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
That's really the essence of what any fiction writer does. Some of it is research-based, but most of it is a really… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
Thomas Berry calls the Ecozoic Era, a time when we recognize the imperative of caring for the planet as a means of… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
The best thing you can do for a song is to hear it on the radio and to imagine what it could… — Ric Ocasek Copy Share Image
Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
[Art] would have helped us survive in the Pleistocene - in the period, say, 1.6 million years ago until fairly recently. The… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
I think it's too fast to say that all sci-fi ultimately winds up having some place in science. On the other hand,… — Brian Greene Copy Share Image
a scientist or a writer is one who ruminates continuously on the nature of physical or imaginative life, experiences repeated relief and… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
Some filmmakers don't want to just entertain, to play with the audience like a little ball and then dump them. They want… — Emmanuel Benbihy Copy Share Image
Nature has mysterious infinities and imaginative power. It is always varying the productions it offers to us. The artist himself is one… — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, "Well, yeah, that could really… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
If we can come up with all sorts of imaginative ways in which people die, then I really don't see what the… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
It is imperative when flying coach that you restrain any tendency toward the vividly imaginative. For although it may momentarily appear to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I like stories that exist both in the naturalistic world and in our imaginative lives, films are so immersive in that sense,… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The best parts of any story to me are the unexpected things, and we have really imaginative, smart writers - I can't… — Kirsten Vangsness 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
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
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
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
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