Much as being active in the antislavery movement of the last century involved more than not engaging in slavery oneself, so joining… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
“Imaginative poetry produces a far greater mental strain than novels. It produces probably the severest strain of any form of literature. It… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
“People are going to think I'm morbid, loving all these sad books. I actually don't mind a happy ending in a novel—certainly,… — Anonymous 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
Whether the poet is living or dead, they're part of our imaginative community. — Joan Larkin 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
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
When I'm writing, I'm waiting to see somebody, and I'm waiting to hear them. It's almost like conjuring spirits out of the… — Charles Baxter Copy Share Image
I love the virtuosity and imaginative chutzpah of 'Da Vinci's Demons,' and not just because my boyfriend is in it! — Hattie Morahan Copy Share Image
The use of imaginative fiction is to deepen your understanding of your world, and your fellow men, and your own feelings, and… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Writing imaginative tales for the young is like sending coals to Newcastle. For coals. — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
So many plays with magic in them that would be a terrific invitation to an imaginative animation team. — Kenneth Branagh Copy Share Image
Without the imaginative insight which goes with creative literature, history cannot be intelligibly written. — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
Time and time again we forget all too easily that nonviolent action embraces a wide and imaginative range of behavior which can… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Kids want to build things, and we encourage them to be as imaginative as possible on the site. — David Baszucki Copy Share Image
If something doesnt feel normal to me, it must be wrong. Failing to have a shred of imaginative empathy is a virtue! — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image
Just in relation to women, it's not that huge an imaginative leap to see the connection between the Taliban and the Catholic… — Peter Mullan Copy Share Image
What makes me different as a scientist is that I'm kind of imaginative. The ideas just happen. — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
“A woman must prefer her liberty over a man. To be happy, she must. A man to be happy, however, must yearn… — Roman Payne 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
If you have never failed at anything, then you haven't been trying hard enough, aren't very imaginative, or have had such extraordinarily… — Margaret Heffernan 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
Decades of research has shown that play is crucial to physical, intellectual, and social-emotiona l development at all ages. This is especially… — David Elkind 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
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
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
Motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson is a prime example of an American company that uses employment conditions to boost productivity. Current CEO James Ziemer… — James O'Toole Copy Share Image
The telephone conversation is, by its very nature, reactive, not reflective. Immediacy is its prime virtue. ... The letter, written in absorbed… — Vivian Gornick Copy Share Image
“Bonnie saw ropes hanging loose, poles falling away, tree-tops sinking beneath her. As they rose, the sun rose with them. Its warmth… — Pauline Fisk Copy Share Image
I feel that, in a sense, the writer knows nothing any longer. He has no moral stance. He offers the reader the… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Far from affording artists continuous inspiration, mass-media sources for art have become a dead end. They have combined with the abstractness of… — Robert Hughes Copy Share Image
Marrying the right girl is even more imperative today than it was when I was 23 years old because it's so much… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
Millennials are first and foremost problem solvers. They are optimistic. They are well educated. They are creative. They are open to change.… — Chip Espinoza 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
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
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
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
