Once you become tagged as anything, it becomes difficult to shake it, because the less imaginative people in the business want you… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
I always knew I wanted to write really imaginative fiction - fiction that was very different from my real life. — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
In art the Greeks were the children of the Egyptians. The day may yet come when we shall do justice to the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
You know, sometimes I don't understand what's wrong with us. This is just about the most creative and imaginative country on earth—and… — Boris Johnson Copy Share Image
When faced with the inevitable, you always have a choice.... As I learned during my liberal arts education, any symbol can have,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Contrary to slanderous Eastern opinion, much of Iowa is not flat, but rolling hills country with a lot of timber, a handsome… — Paul Engle Copy Share Image
Anyone who says that life matters less to an animal than it does to us has not held in his hands an… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
Personally I believe that the courses we followed for some years after World War II were enlightened, surprisingly imaginative and extremely effective. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Invention despoils observations, insinuation invalidates memory. A stewpot of bad habits, all of it - so that imaginative writers wind up, by… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is left none over for works of… — Malcolm Muggeridge 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
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
The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity… — William Hurt Copy Share Image
Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge 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
I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer because I had the… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
The prose of Joe Pulver can take its place with that of the masters of our genre – E.A. Poe, H.P. Lovecraft,… — S. T. Joshi 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
It is high time that laymen abandoned the misleading belief that scientific enquiry is a cold dispassionate enterprise, bleached of imaginative qualities,… — Peter Medawar Copy Share Image
In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time… — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
If the outer world is diminished in its grandeur, then the emotional, imaginative, intellectual, and spiritual life of the human is diminished… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
We know much of a writer by his style. An open and imperious disposition is shown in short sentences, direct and energetic.… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
The other, the other aspect when I say I'm an actor is that as an actor you make this imaginative leap into… — Simon McBurney 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