Of all the arts the living of a life is perhaps the greatest; to live every moment of life with the same… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present. — Franz Boas Copy Share Image
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
The central function of imaginative literature is to make you realize that other people act on moral convictions different from your own. — William Empson Copy Share Image
A culture is as rich and as capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists, skilled men of science, a high ethic… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“Scent is such a powerful tool of attraction, that if a woman has this tool perfectly tuned, she needs no other. I… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
A relationship is an imaginative act, it's an act of creation. Someone said to me the other day that a relationship between… — Keanu Reeves Copy Share Image
So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a… — Archibald Hill Copy Share Image
Alan Rocke's Image and Reality does so many things vividly and convincingly: it shows how visual images led chemistry step by step… — Roald Hoffmann Copy Share Image
Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My… — Antony Gormley Copy Share Image
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist for example Vincent Van Gogh, as it is of the great scientist, that… — Loren Eiseley Copy Share Image
We certainly have at present the dismal situation that the most imaginative men are directed by a group, the top managers, who… — Paul Goodman Copy Share Image
Don't confine truth to fact. Imaginative truth is as powerful, and often enough, more so than fact. — Paul Harding Copy Share Image
I'm an artistic kind of person. I draw. I've drawn my whole life. When you have an imaginative mind, I think the… — Vinny Guadagnino Copy Share Image
With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
A lot of people ask, "What do you pull on in your own life from your character?" In all honesty, it's not… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
For many imaginative writers, working for the press is a fact of their life. But it's best not to like it too… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Education in British schools isn't good enough. It's not remotely imaginative enough. It lets down too many children, excluding them from society,… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power. — George Henry Lewes Copy Share Image
When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have all… — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
One must search diligently to find laudatory comments on education (other than those pious platitudes which are fodder for commencement speeches). It… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is even a good idea to stir up a rivalry between conceptual and imaginative activity. In any case, one will… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
