Ritual is the most primitive reflection of serious thought, a slow deposit, as it were, of people's imaginative insight into life. — Susanne Katherina Langer 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
[My works are] an imitation of my own past and present and of my own creative vitality as I experience them in… — Barbara Hepworth Copy Share Image
The impulse to write comes, I think, from a desire - perhaps a need - to give imaginative life to experience, to… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Conversations...begin with the sort of imaginative engagement you get when you read a novel or watch a movie or attend to a… — Kwame Anthony Appiah Copy Share Image
A person of mature years and ripe development, who is expecting nothing from literature but the corroboration and renewal of past ideas,… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
You ask why London has to 'stand for' anything. One response is that in fact it always inevitably does. One could say… — Doreen Massey Copy Share Image
Surrounding yourself with creative, imaginative people is a good strategy for success whether you're an entrepreneur seeking innovation or an artist looking… — Harvey Mackay 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
The capacity for imaginative reflex, for moral risk in any human being is not limitless; on the contrary, it can be rapidly… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The real use of imaginative reading is precisely to suspend one's mind in the workings of another sensibility. — Guy Davenport Copy Share Image
In reality, there is a single integral community of the Earth that includes all its component members whether human or other than… — Thomas Berry 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
If the story is good enough, if it's imaginative enough, if it's moving enough it is going to reach deeper than the… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
We should all know this: that listening is not talking; [it] is the gifted and great role and the imaginative role. And… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales. — Margaret Haddix 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
I've always set my stories in places I know well. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
I see the carpet reflecting that narratological structure of the storytelling, with Scheherazade as the outside frame story on the outside, with… — Marina Warner Copy Share Image
The ear is profound, whereas the eye is frivolous, too easily satisfied. The ear is active, imaginative, whereas the eye is passive.… — Robert Bresson Copy Share Image
The disinterested imaginative core of mythology is what develops into literature, science, philosophy. Religion is applied mythology. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I'm not such a fan of imagination. If you're alive to details, they oftentimes suggest a richer or deeper imaginative line than… — Edmund White Copy Share Image
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