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
A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that… — Oscar Wilde 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
It is usual to speak in a playfully apologetic tone about one's adult enjoyment of what are called 'children's books.' I think… — C. S. Lewis 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
What people think about you is not supposed to matter much, so long as you yourself know where the truth lies; but… — Richard E. Byrd Copy Share Image
“Being the World’s Most Powerful Leader is Easier Than You Think One of my first executive orders was to impose a moratorium… — Nancy Omeara Copy Share Image
This is a major, wide-ranging, and comprehensive book. A philosophical investigation that is also a literary and historical study, Truth and Truthfulness… — Alexander Nehamas Copy Share Image
Child of woe is wane and delicate... sensitive and on the quiet side, she loves the picnics and outings to the underground… — Charles Addams 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
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
People who get Nobel prizes aren't necessarily the most imaginative of people. People who sometimes find a system, develop a system, do… — Aaron Klug Copy Share Image
I spoke French a bit, and I could speak a bit of this and that, and when you were taught those things… — Diane Cilento Copy Share Image
If you're an enthusiast and you love the world like I do, it comes naturally. But I think charity must become more… — Joanna Lumley Copy Share Image
I hadn't really thought about this until 'The Lake of Dreams,' but I've set all my stories in places that are familiar… — 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
Imaginative writing has always been a solitary and indeed a somewhat antisocial activity. Apprenticeship existed, no doubt, but it was an apprenticeship… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We are terribly imaginative, as far as technique in science is concerned. As far as changes in social arrangements are concerned, we… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
...the cosmology of a given age is not the result of unilinear, "scientific" development, but rather the most striking, imaginative symbol of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Of course, it's wonderful to film any period piece - but especially 'Foyle's War' because the art direction is so imaginative and… — Honeysuckle Weeks Copy Share Image
Kay was older and bigger than the Wart, so that he was bound to win in the end, but he was more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
I'm not good at standing on platforms and persuading people to my political point of view. Nor would I seek to. My… — David Hare 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 best possible solutions come only from a combination of a rational analysis based on the nature of things, and imaginative reintegration… — Kenichi Ohmae Copy Share Image
“Just as Wallace learned and evolved, Ali was on his own journey of discovery. Starting out as a 15-year-old cook, Ali learned… — Paul Spencer Sochaczewski Copy Share Image
“The child race is fresh, eager, interested, innocent, imaginative, healthy and full of faith, where the adult race, more often than not,… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
We need some imaginative stimulus, some not impossible ideal such as may shape vague hope, and transform it into effective desire, to… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
If in the sex scene you happen to be naked in front of a lot of other people you've just got to… — Geoffrey Rush 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
I have sometimes thought that his bursts of imaginative talk were fatal to his poetic gift. He squandered too much in the… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
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