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
The justification for a university is that it preserves the connection between knowledge and the zest of life, by uniting the young… — Alfred North Whitehead 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
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
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
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
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
I am often fond of saying the Trekkers are passionate about a hobby, their hobby is 'Star Trek.' They are by and… — Kate Mulgrew Copy Share Image
On this simple unit-system [of building blocks] ruled on the low table-top all these forms were combined by the child into imaginative… — Frank Lloyd Wright Copy Share Image
A gathering of Democrats is more sweaty, disorderly, offhand, and rowdy than a gathering of Republicans; it is also likely to be… — Clinton Rossiter Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to have an extravagant food budget in order to serve things with variety and tastefully cooked. It is… — Edith Schaeffer Copy Share Image
Science and religion are very much alike. Both are imaginative and creative aspects of the human mind. The appearance of a conflict… — John Eccles Copy Share Image
The origins and travels of our purchases remain matters of indifference, although to the more imaginative at least a slight dampness at… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, hateful as saying 'No' always is to an imaginative person, and certain as the offence may be that it will cause… — Vera Brittain Copy Share Image
They seemed nearer, not only mentally, but physically when they read ... Their chance was to make everything fine and finished and… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The base of all artistic genius is the power of conceiving humanity in a new, striking, rejoicing way, of putting a happy… — Walter Pater 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
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
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
I've never put Northern Ireland into a novel because it's not my territory. I come from the South, so my imaginative territory… — Colm Toibin 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
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
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
An imaginative book renders us much more service at first, by stimulating us through its tropes, than afterward, when we arrive atthe… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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
“…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
It is possible to point to hundreds, thousands, perhaps even millions of imaginative, courageous programs to reduce, recycle, and reuse - yet… — Richard Heinberg 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
Seldom does a storytelling talent come along as potent and fully mature as Mike Brotherton. His complex characters take you on a… — David Brin 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
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
[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
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
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
“People cannot stand the saddest truth I know about the very nature of reading and writing imaginative literature, which is that poetry… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
Broadway purists may deplore the influx of movie-spinoff musicals in recent years, wishing someone would turn off the popcorn machine and let… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
When we hate a person, with an intimate, imaginative, human hatred, we enter into his mind, or sympathize -- any strong interest… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
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