Kay was older and bigger than the Wart, so that he was bound to win in the end, but he was more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
...the cosmology of a given age is not the result of unilinear, "scientific" development, but rather the most striking, imaginative symbol of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a… — Susanna Moodie Copy Share Image
Science is competitive, aggressive, demanding. It is also imaginative, inspiring, uplifting. — Vera Rubin Copy Share Image
I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the… — Willa Cather 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
It is characteristic of the barbarian ... to insist upon seeing a thing "as it is." The desire testifies that he has… — Richard M. Weaver Copy Share Image
Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I think [kids] enjoy reading, but it's a different world now. There are a lot of competitors for the imaginative attention. — David Duchovny Copy Share Image
Humans in modern societies are driven by a perhaps desperate hope that they might find some way of mobilizing their theoretical and… — Raymond Geuss Copy Share Image
And the podcasting - I swear to you - on its worst day, the podcasts are better than our best films. Because… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Note, to-day, an instructive, curious spectacle and conflict. Science, (twin, in its fields, of Democracy in its)—Science, testing absolutely all thoughts, all… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
I come from theater, and doing period stuff is so whimsical and imaginative and so outside any frame of reference than I… — Ginnifer Goodwin Copy Share Image
Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might… — Anonymous 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
Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. — John Hurt Copy Share Image
To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I guess I've done a couple of boys-y movies and on the whole you get bracketed into things you've just done, so… — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
My dad, a mathematician, raised me to believe that mathematics is beautiful, so math is a part of my imaginative terrain. In… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do… — Aaron Klug Copy Share Image
A gathering of Democrats is more sweaty, disorderly, offhand, and rowdy than a gathering of Republicans; it is also likely to be… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
Poetry, at all times, exercises two distinct functions: it may reveal, it may unveil to every eye, the ideal aspects of common… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image