I don't think the role of style is different for a woman of any age. Style, to me, is about experimenting with… — Elizabeth Heyert Copy Share Image
I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what… — Thom Yorke 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
Even tiny children looking at a picture book are using their imaginations, gleaning clues from the images to understand what is happening,… — Philip Reeve Copy Share Image
It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the… — J. M. W. Turner Copy Share Image
He that condemns himself to compose on a stated day will often bring to his task attention dissipated, a memory embarrassed, an… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Atrocities are now shown in 30-second bites. Hardcore artistic horror is an expression of hating your neighbour. The gruesome imagination feeds on… — Calvin Seerveld Copy Share Image
In writing my historical novels, I have to rely upon my imagination to a great extent. I think of it as 'filling… — Sharon Kay Penman Copy Share Image
“Such is life, imaginary or otherwise: a continuous parting of ways, a constant flux of approximation and distanciation, lines of fate intersecting… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
“I absolutely treasure this uniqueness, this brilliant originative impression, that I have surrounded within my imaginative curiosity. I'm gonna prevail and continue… — D.L. Lewis Copy Share Image
We have inherited a fear of memories of slavery. It is as if to remember and acknowledge slavery would amount to our… — Angela Davis Copy Share Image
What do you want art to give you? What do you want cultural experience to give you? Shouldn't it be in-depth, profound… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I've taken on impossible fights before and won and I've done it not by taking on the tactics and techniques of demagogues… — Cory Booker Copy Share Image
“A letter from a French cleric to Nicholas of St. Albans, written c. 1178, rehearsed what was already a familiar perception: Your… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
“The imagination and trust of a young child are immeasurable. Through the prism of their eyes all things are possible, all dreams… — Jason Versey Copy Share Image
life's kind of like a painting. A really bizarre, abstract painting. You could look at it and think that all it is,… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
We must have an expansionary vision, one that captures the imagination and diversity of the whole community, one which benefits a nation… — Bob Brown Copy Share Image
What I'd show you is much more bizarre than anything we have looked at so far, and I warn you in advance… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Some years ago I wrote a book called The House on Eccles Street. To write this book I had to think my… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
“If you had come to me a hundred years ago, do you think I should have dreamed of the telephone? Why, even… — William Crookes Copy Share Image
Many have imagined republics and principalities which have never been seen or known to exist in reality; for how we live is… — Niccolo Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“A loud boom exploded the air, making Thomas jump. It was followed by a horrible crunching, grinding sound. He stumbled backward, fell… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
The heart is commonly reached, not through the reason, but through the imagination, by means of direct impressions, by the testimony of… — John Henry Newman Copy Share Image
Sentences are not different enough to hold the attention unless they are dramatic. No ingenuity of varying structure will do. All that… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“My father knew our way mile by mile; by day or by night, he knew where we were. Everything that changed under… — Eudora Welty Copy Share Image
A sentence is like a tune. A memorable sentence gives its emotion a melodic shape. You want to hear it again, say… — Robert Pinsky Copy Share Image
I believe myself that romantic love is the source of the most intense delights that life has to offer. In the relation… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Of course it is easier to sit the young child in front of the television than it is to read to him… — Ursula Markham Copy Share Image
People are always saying it's the end of the Gutenberg era. More to the point, it's a return to an oral era.… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
We can conceive of eternity because we cannot conceive of a cessation of time. We can conceive of infinite space because we… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Science is a human activity, and the best way to understand it is to understand the individual human beings who practise it.… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
What is fantastic for me is that the Romantic movement comes out as a counter balance to everything that has been accumulating… — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
Coffee, the sober drink, the mighty nourishment of the brain, which unlike other spirits, heightens purity and lucidity; coffee, which clears the… — Jules Michelet Copy Share Image
In Judaism or Christianity and so forth, you invent rules that don't exist anywhere except in your imagination. You spend your life… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
I've taken a lot of pride in that, and not feeling any pressure to yield or to bend to what someone else's… — Big E Copy Share Image
Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and… — Bennett Cerf Copy Share Image
Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence.… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
I feel like you are allowed in fiction to embrace imagination and try to enter other worlds. And I feel like you… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image