I prefer poems that occupy an imaginative sphere. When I lived in Cincinnati, I was occasionally referred to as an "Ohio Poet;"… — Cate Marvin Copy Share Image
With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working… — Alan Rickman Copy Share Image
Our imagination may take us on amazing journeys but it all ends when we come into reality and realize that if we… — Wheaton Copy Share Image
For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Form a small group. Five or six people, of people who think the way you do, and are willing to meet regularly,… — Ray McGovern Copy Share Image
Of all the hot liquors, I regard buttered rum as the worst. I believe that the drinking of it should be permitted… — David A. Embury Copy Share Image
That requires quite an imaginative leap because it's hard for me to imagine that my biography would be of much interest to… — Debra Dean Copy Share Image
I never had a fondness for gems or the extravagance of Harry Winston or Van Cleef & Arpels. I've always liked the… — Iris Apfel 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
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
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
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
If I'm ever working on a set and anyone talks about a master shot, I say there is no master shot. Before… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
Jesus of Nazareth could have chosen simply to express Himself in moral precepts; but like a great poet He chose the form… — Dudley Nichols Copy Share Image
I definitely go through periods where I'm in a particular mood, or there's a consistent imaginative context that I feel I'm in,… — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
As the worldly philosophers of the past affirmed, the goal of economics is to improve the way society functions. In The New… — Peter L. Bernstein Copy Share Image
I think imaginative exercises can have a profound impact on the future - what you can imagine can sometimes turn into something… — Vinton Cerf Copy Share Image
It's actually hard for creative people to know themselves because the creative self is more complex than the non-creative self. The things… — Scott Barry Kaufman Copy Share Image
The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always… — Anthony Minghella 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
Understanding capitalism is in some ways simple. At its best, capitalism rewards creators, makers and providers: the people and firms that create… — Geoff Mulgan Copy Share Image
Define home "not as a comforable, stable, inherited and familiar space, but instead as an imaginative, politically-charged space where the familiarity and… — Chandra Talpade Mohanty Copy Share Image
Curiosity, wonder, and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers...Restlessness and discontent are vital things... Intense experience and suffering… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I was somebody who was not athletic. I was highly imaginative; I loved to read, and I loved nothing more than being… — Julianne Moore Copy Share Image
All the preparation in the world doesn't avail you if you can't make that imaginative leap and put yourself in the position… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
“…sometimes you need to be imaginative about what kinds of research you do, compromise and be driven by the questions that need… — Ben Goldacre Copy Share Image
When a scene is shrouded in mist, it seems greater, nobler, and heightens the viewers' imaginative powers, increasing expectation - like a… — Caspar David Friedrich Copy Share Image
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of… — Malcolm Muggeridge 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
Learning a foreign language, and the culture that goes with it, is one of the most useful things we can do to… — Michael Gove Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination… — Tom Robbins 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
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
At bottom, textual criticism for virtually all other ancient literature relies on creative conjectures, or imaginative guesses, at reconstructing the wording of… — Daniel B. Wallace Copy Share Image
There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion… — William H. Hunt Copy Share Image
Dostoyevsky wrote of the unconscious as if it were conscious; that is in reality the reason why his characters seem 'pathological', while… — Edwin Muir Copy Share Image
Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
I'm a sci-fi girl. If I can have anything in life, I'd want tons of great science-fiction movies and stories. It's so… — Zoe Saldana Copy Share Image
Pastors need to know what's going on in the world and what has been going on for 4,000 years. We need a… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
One does not go to the theater to see life and nature; one goes to see the particular way in which life… — George Jean Nathan 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 one particular instant of my emotional and imaginative life. . .” quote by Barbara Hepworth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/25d/barbara-hepworth-24891_creative_my-works-are-an-imitation-of-my-own-past_1066060.jpg)
![“In the old days people had far fewer channels in which to place their imaginative time. There's definitely more competition for time . . . and yet people seem to be reading [books] as much.” quote by Douglas Coupland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/560/douglas-coupland-305_book_in-the-old-days-people-had-far-fewer-cha_838193.jpg)
