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 was an imaginative kid. My sister needed entertaining, whereas I was the one under the table playing with a bit of… — Holly Willoughby Copy Share Image
I think angels definitely offer all the imaginative possibilities that vampires do, and I think they've actually been popular in Western culture… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life.… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an… — Robert E. Sherwood Copy Share Image
The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let… — James Wolcott 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
In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. He is… — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education… — Aaron Scharf Copy Share Image
I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
The origins and travels of our purchases remain matters of indifference, although to the more imaginative at least a slight dampness at… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I think the camera has got to be motivated. You can't have things arrived at gratuitously. Everything has to have an organic… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
The imagination is the medium of appreciation in every field. The engagement of the imagination is the only thing that makes any… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
Americans are very enthusiastic. We have a new generation of moviegoers who love great horror films. I am a very imaginative man,… — Dario Argento Copy Share Image
Women really are not supposed to be imaginative. That creativity of this kind is supposed to belong to men. You know, because… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
That's a fairly Wordsworthian way to look at things! But yeah, actually - part of the poet's work, I think, is to… — Shane McCrae Copy Share Image
I've never put Northern Ireland into a novel because it's not my territory. I come from the South, so my imaginative territory… — Colm Toibin Copy Share Image
Cooking is just as creative and imaginative an activity as drawing, or wood carving, or music. And cooking draws upon your every… — Julia Child Copy Share Image
It is possible to point to hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions of imaginative, courageous programs to reduce, recycle, and reuse - yet… — Richard Heinberg Copy Share Image
Seldom does a storytelling talent come along as potent and fully mature as Mike Brotherton. His complex characters take you on a… — David Brin Copy Share Image
“...because I went to London on my own, and because I went to solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? and I… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
Its 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
I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
In order to reclaim America's 'creativity' differentiator, we must be able to provide businesses with a workforce of imaginative employees who will… — Larry R. Thompson Copy Share Image
I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for children's books; there are really… — Jewel Copy Share Image
The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
We need more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes to comprehend the nature of citizenship,… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
They seemed nearer, not only mentally, but physically when they read ... Their chance was to make everything fine and finished and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be… — Russell Banks Copy Share Image
The merit of poetry, in its wildest forms, still consists in its truth-truth conveyed to the understanding, not directly by the words,… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I believe that all literatures can have political uses and misuses. Sometimes politics can enhance, sometimes it can get in the way… — Gayl Jones Copy Share Image
