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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Even the most inspired verse, which boasts not without a relative justification to be immortal, becomes in the course of ages a… — George Santayana 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 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
A culture is as rich and capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists. — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
I have for a long time loved fabulist, imaginative fiction, such as the writing of Italo Calvino, Jose Saramago, Michael Bulgakov, and… — Alan Lightman 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
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
... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative… — Elizabeth Bowen 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
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
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
“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
An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage. — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
I'm alienated from this world because its weird and I don't want to be a part of it. I want to be… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
