To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
[Reanu Reeves] is a very imaginative actor. He can have this wonderful balance of humor and fear. He's got these skills to… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
Poetry, at all times, exercises two distinct functions: it may reveal, it may unveil to every eye, the ideal aspects of common… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could… — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
I was an imaginative kid. My sister needed entertaining, whereas I was the one under the table playing with a bit of… — Holly Willoughby Copy Share Image
I think angels definitely offer all the imaginative possibilities that vampires do, and I think they've actually been popular in Western culture… — Danielle Trussoni Copy Share Image
Beauty is no material thing. Beauty cannot be copied. Beauty is the sensation of pleasure on the mind of the seer. No… — Robert Henri Copy Share Image
Imaginative empathy is one of the great gifts that humans have, and it means that we can live more than one life.… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
It helps to regard soul as an active intelligence, forming and plotting each person's fate. Translators use "plot" to render the ancient… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
But some of the nonsense was evil, since it concealed great crimes. For example, teachers of children in the United States of… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
In Western society, and particularly in American society, imagination is stulified from infancy. The imaginative child is discouraged and upbraided. He is… — Philip Wylie 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
As a philosophical problem, it comes down to a better way to engage with the passage of time; and I think we're… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
Not to Learn Irish is to miss the opportunity of understanding what life in this country has meant and could mean in… — Seamus Heaney Copy Share Image
When we speak about trespassing, we speak about artistic trespassing. You have to be prudent and have common sense and a sense… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
When you will, make a resolution, set your jaw, you are expressing an imaginative fear that you won't do the thing. If… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an… — Robert E. Sherwood Copy Share Image
Living with him is like being told a perpetual story: his mind is the biggest, most imaginative I have ever met. I… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
It's an imaginative thing we do; it's about immersing oneself in one's imagination. If you're a novelist, you do it with pen… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
Once you become tagged as anything, it becomes difficult to shake it, because the less imaginative people in the business want you… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
I'm an artistic kind of person. I draw. I've drawn my whole life. When you have an imaginative mind, I think the… — Vinny Guadagnino Copy Share Image
“Scent is such a powerful tool of attraction, that if a woman has this tool perfectly tuned, she needs no other. I… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Americans are very enthusiastic. We have a new generation of moviegoers who love great horror films. I am a very imaginative man,… — Dario Argento Copy Share Image
You can be imaginative, you have the technology to convert your vision, you have the freedom to write the kind of stories… — Kanika Dhillon Copy Share Image
Women really are not supposed to be imaginative. That creativity of this kind is supposed to belong to men. You know, because… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Education in British schools isn't good enough. It's not remotely imaginative enough. It lets down too many children, excluding them from society,… — Richard Rogers Copy Share Image
It's very difficult, I think for most writers, to carve out the time and the kind of imaginative space to do the… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
I was 3 years old and Mary Poppins [1964] made an impression on me that was seismic, apparently. I fell into some… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
The more we are proud that the Bethlehem story is plain enough to be understood by the shepherds, and almost by the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One of the weaknesses of much abstract painting is the attempt to substitute the inventions of the intellect for a pristine imaginative… — Edward Hopper Copy Share Image
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, butit is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
In addition to exploring imaginative worlds, I believe that young people should have access to reading material that validates their life, that… — Theresa Breslin Copy Share Image
SF is an opportunity to have an intense relationship with your own imagination. It's a kind of drive-by poetry, trashy and addictive;… — M. John Harrison Copy Share Image
The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall… — Alison Lurie Copy Share Image
Francis Scott Fitzgerald really read culture pretty damn clearly. It was he who understood that artistic achievement, really imaginative work, goes where… — Nancy Milford Copy Share Image
“In our time... a man whose enemies are faceless bureaucrats almost never wins. It is our equivalent to the anger of the… — Chaim Potok 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
Because I think of novels as collaborative enterprises between the writer and the reader, all of my novels so far have ending… — Emily Barton Copy Share Image
There are things that are more important than the news and what’s happening today. There are these archetypes which are part of… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
![“[Reanu Reeves] is a very imaginative actor. He can have this wonderful balance of humor and fear. He's got these skills to be entertaining but also quite terrifying.” quote by Nicolas Winding Refn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/cb6/nicolas-winding-refn-1480_actor_reanu-reeves-is-a-very-imaginative-actor_2412274.jpg)
![“We should all know this: that listening is not talking; [it] is the gifted and great role and the imaginative role. And the true listener is much more beloved, magnetic than the talker, and he is more effective, and learns more and does more good. And so try listening. Listen to your wife, your…” quote by Brenda Ueland](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/839/brenda-ueland-3836_beloved_we-should-all-know-this-that-listening-i_1134332.jpg)
![“I was 3 years old and Mary Poppins [1964] made an impression on me that was seismic, apparently. I fell into some kind of total creative, imaginative rapture over that movie that propelled this industry of Mary Poppins drawings, plays, performances - just an obsessive, creative reaction to it.” quote by Todd Haynes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ee/todd-haynes-2626_creative_i-was-3-years-old-and-mary-poppins-1964_1785704.jpg)
![“There are things that are more important than the news and what’s happening today. There are these archetypes which are part of the human imagination since humans were presumably imaginative. And I think that’s what [people] find touching, these eternal ideas. It’s one of the things that makes…” quote by Clive Barker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c1/clive-barker-773_archetype_there-are-things-that-are-more-important_1942826.jpg)
