Memory belongs to the imagination. Human memory is not like a computer which records things; it is part of the imaginative process,… — Alain Robbe-Grillet Copy Share Image
I was encouraged to be imaginative and read, and it was a great childhood for a budding writer because I had the… — Sarah Waters Copy Share Image
Baum (Writer of THE WONDERFUL WIZARD OF OZ) was a true educator, and those who read his Oz books are often made… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
In talking with scholars, I observe that they lost on ruder companions those years of boyhood which alone could give imaginative literature… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
With school turning out more runners, jumpers, racers, tinkerers, grabbers, snatchers, fliers, and swimmers instead of examiners, critics, knowers, and imaginative creators,… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
It is imperative when flying coach that you restrain any tendency toward the vividly imaginative. For although it may momentarily appear to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
I think of science fiction as being part of the great river of imaginative fiction that has flowed through English literature, probably… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
If we can come up with all sorts of imaginative ways in which people die, then I really don't see what the… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
The physical exercise and emotional stretching that children enjoy in unorganized play is more varied and less time-bound than is found in… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is left none over for works of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
How often people speak of art and science as though they were two entirely different things, with no interconnection. That is all… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Much as being active in the antislavery movement of the last century involved more than not engaging in slavery oneself, so joining… — Sissela Bok Copy Share Image
Without doubt, the foremost band for decades has been the One O'Clock Lab Band at the University of North Texas. Through its… — Gary Burton Copy Share Image
Leibniz accepted the argument that there must be indestructible simple entities if there is to be a complex world, but Epicurean morals… — Catherine Wilson Copy Share Image
A lot of people ask, "What do you pull on in your own life from your character?" In all honesty, it's not… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I love imaginative representations of a possible near-future, where you look at the technology and you think, "Well, yeah, that could really… — Bill Nighy Copy Share Image
The American idea is as promising, imaginative, and full of the unexpected as the land itself. The land represents freedom - the… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
The best parts of any story to me are the unexpected things, and we have really imaginative, smart writers - I can't… — Kirsten Vangsness Copy Share Image
Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
I like stories that exist both in the naturalistic world and in our imaginative lives, films are so immersive in that sense,… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
I believe that curiosity, wonder and passion are defining qualities of imaginative minds and great teachers; that restlessness and discontent are vital… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
[Children] use up the same part of my head as poetry does. To deal with children is a matter of terrific imaginative… — Libby Houston Copy Share Image
There's a challenge to playing these fantasy figures because they are fantasy figures. You have to enter into this sort of imaginative… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
A culture is as rich and as capable of surviving as it has imaginative artists, skilled men of science, a high ethic… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
“A woman must prefer her liberty over a man. To be happy, she must. A man to be happy, however, must yearn… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
...I believe, with Gandhi, that we need to take an imaginative leap forward toward fresh and generous idealism for the sake of… — Mairead Corrigan Copy Share Image
The Canadian people are more practical than imaginative. Romantic tales and poetry would meet with less favour in their eyes than a… — Susanna Moodie Copy Share Image
Of course I believe imaginative architecture can make a difference to people's lives, but I wish it was possible to divert some… — Zaha Hadid Copy Share Image
Imaginative, sanguine men will never recognize that in negotiations the most dangerous moment of all is when everything is moving according to… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Thank heaven I don't inherit God from anybody! I am free to make mine up as I wish Him. He's kind and… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
The thing is, I don't believe in most of what's done. The amount of financial and imaginative energy that's put into mediocrity… — William Hurt Copy Share Image
Glamour is an imaginative process that creates a specific emotional response: a sharp mixture of projection, longing, admiration, and aspiration. It evokes… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
Shouldn't someone tag Mr. Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age? Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Take a scientific fact or theory, add a futuristic or other-worldly setting, stir in an imaginative plot and fascinating characters, and a… — Yvonne Coleman Copy Share Image
We cannot, even given our most imaginative efforts, construct a concept of Self that does not impute some causal influence of prior… — Jerome Bruner Copy Share Image
When any civilization is dust and ashes," he said, "art is all that's left over. Images, words, music. Imaginative structures. Meaning—human meaning,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Religions are not imaginative, not poetic, not soulful. On the contrary, they are parochial, small-minded, niggardly with the human imagination, precisely where… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
The pursuit of natural knowledge, the investigation of the world - mental and material - in which we live, is not a… — Archibald Hill Copy Share Image
If you have never failed at anything, then you haven't been trying hard enough, aren't very imaginative, or have had such extraordinarily… — Margaret Heffernan Copy Share Image
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