In fiction, you don't invent the events. What is imaginative about it is the consciousness: how you think about the events and… — Amitava Kumar Copy Share Image
The merit of poetry, in its wildest forms, still consists in its truth-truth conveyed to the understanding, not directly by the words,… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
I believe that all literatures can have political uses and misuses. Sometimes politics can enhance, sometimes it can get in the way… — Gayl Jones Copy Share Image
Nick Yablon ranges widely, from log cabins to skyscrapers and from Tocqueville to pulp fiction. He combines imaginative research with probing interpretation.… — T. J. Jackson Lears Copy Share Image
We all have only one life to live on Earth, and through television we have the choice of encouraging others to demean… — Fred Rogers Copy Share Image
Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be… — Russell Banks 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
Before he has seen the whole, how unusually perceptive and imaginative the person must be to evolve the entire sequence by meditating… — Minor White Copy Share Image
Over-scheduling their child's time, far from improving their lives, actually damages them. Scheduling an hour of free time strengthens their imagination. When… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
Progress is the exploration of our own error. Evolution is a consolidation of what have always begun as errors. And errors are… — Jacob Bronowski 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
I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire… — James A. Michener Copy Share Image
India was China's teacher in religion and imaginative literature, and the world's teacher in trignometry, quandratic equations, grammar, phonetics, Arabian Nights, animal… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education… — Aaron Scharf Copy Share Image
You know, and I know, the cause of this accident. It is due to the adventurous, pioneering spirit of our race. It… — John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara Copy Share Image
In the annals of science fiction, where dystopias rule the imaginative roost, Star Trek stood nearly alone in telling us that our… — Charles Shaar Murray 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
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
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
We need more urgently than architectural utopias, ingenious traffic disposal systems, or ecological programmes to comprehend the nature of citizenship,… — Jonathan Raban Copy Share Image
I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my… — Yehuda Amichai 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
In order to reclaim America's 'creativity' differentiator, we must be able to provide businesses with a workforce of imaginative employees who will… — Larry R. Thompson Copy Share Image
I would love to write more children's books. There is such a high standard out there for children's books; there are really… — Jewel 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 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
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
Its always been the case that politicians want different things from children than good educators do. Good educators want imaginative, exploratory beings,… — David Almond Copy Share Image
“...because I went to London on my own, and because I went to solved the mystery of Who Killed Wellington? and I… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I believe the transsexual urge, at least as I have experienced it, to be far more than a social compulsion, but biological,… — Jan Morris 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
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'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
Those are fun, especially if they're going to shoot them in four weeks, because you know they're not going to mess with… — John Sayles Copy Share Image
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