It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic. — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Above all we have to go beyond words and images and concepts. No imaginative vision or conceptual framework is adequate to the… — Bede Griffiths Copy Share Image
Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Imaginative compassion for that which is other than myself is a constant artistic and ethical discipline. — Shaun McNiff Copy Share Image
The Vores Third Quartet is a terrific piece that brings disparate components into harmony. . . it's celebratory, imaginative, touching, and fun. — Richard Dyer Copy Share Image
In the developing world, people often use quite basic technology. Many of the most imaginative schemes are using what we'd count as… — Charles Leadbeater 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
The dense and godly wear consistency as a flower, the imaginative fling it joyfully behind them. — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
I have many books that I want to write; I'd like to think that I'll be around for another 20 years or… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
“When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Men can never understand the fear of everlasting punishment that fills the souls of women and children. The orthodox religion, as drawn… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
I grew up in the suburbs among highly educated people, in a house crammed with books. It was a culture rich in… — Stephen Hunter Copy Share Image
What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use,… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to… — Robert Hewison Copy Share Image
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
While the Passover narrative [in Exodus] energizes Israel's imagination toward justice, Israel's hard work of implementation of that imaginative scenario was done… — Walter Brueggemann Copy Share Image
Knowing Chris Bennett's Writing as I do, I expected Only Superhuman to have an imaginative plot and a compelling superheroine in Emry… — Mike W. Barr Copy Share Image
I think I'd rather do [acting] in the real place. It requires different things, working with green screen, but its an imaginative… — John Hurt 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
Puzzlement and doubt are, however, already crimes in the totalitarian state. The mind that is open for questions is open for dissent.… — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
As I started to read nonfiction in the mid '70s, I discovered, holy cow, there was a lot of imaginative nonfiction. Not… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
That's really the essence of what any fiction writer does. Some of it is research-based, but most of it is a really… — Jonathan Dee Copy Share Image
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible. — Alexander Chase Copy Share Image
Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets? — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I was a very imaginative and theatrical child and wasn't afraid of being in front of a camera. — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
Kieron Gillen and Jamie McKelvie's The Wicked + The Divine is a warp into the middle of a wildly imaginative mythology and… — Rick Remender Copy Share Image
I was nine. I saw Orson Welles in 'Julius Caesar.' It was involving, emotional, imaginative. I've never forgotten it. — Harold Prince Copy Share Image
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
I was a very imaginative child, and my parents were very encouraging of that. My sister and I would put on plays;… — Hannah Kent Copy Share Image
Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. — John Hurt Copy Share Image
As artists, I think that one of the good qualities we have is that we're imaginative. We're resourceful. We like challenges. — Meredith Monk Copy Share Image
As I get older, I become more imaginative and feel like I have maybe a shorter time to get a lot of… — Sarah Brightman Copy Share Image
The only imaginative prose writer of the slightest value who has appeared among the English-speaking races for some years past. — George Orwell 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
What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
My own way of thinking is very conservative, very linear and not particularly imaginative, but if I look for things in different… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
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