... a novel survives because of its basic truthfulness, its having within it something general and universal, and a quality of imaginative… — Elizabeth Bowen Copy Share Image
When I was at Cambridge in the early fifties, there was a school nearby for training Army officers in Russian, and some… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
And the podcasting - I swear to you - on its worst day, the podcasts are better than our best films. Because… — Kevin Smith Copy Share Image
[Richard Crossley's] previous bird guide, for ID'ing Eastern birds, is the most imaginative, original attempt to re-envision the birding guide and set… — James Wolcott Copy Share Image
My own way of thinking is very conservative, very linear and not particularly imaginative, but if I look for things in different… — Christopher Walken Copy Share Image
Acting is an imaginative leap, really, isn't it? And imaginations prosper in different circumstances. And it's being able - I can't tell… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Apparently, everyone is most scared of the psychological tests. I didn't know how I'd fare. What I've found out is I may… — Sarah Brightman Copy Share Image
I read a great deal as a child. A lot of children go through a phase of reading in a literally voracious… — J. M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
It's a little bit like talking about the life of writing. The life of writing may be about many things, but it… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
The only valid reason to use clichés is in the speech of a character. Cliches are indications of sloppy writing. The writer… — Leonard Bishop Copy Share Image
1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
With Head Off & Split, Nikky Finney establishes herself as one of the most eloquent, urgent, fearless and necessary poets writing in… — Kwame Dawes 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
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
Photography is the art of anticipation, not working with memories, but showing their formation. As such, it has relentlessly usurped imaginative and… — Peter Schjeldahl Copy Share Image
What renders man an imaginative and moral being is that in society he gives new aims to his life which could not… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal… — Herbert Croly Copy Share Image
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into… — Cesare Pavese Copy Share Image
Take the whole range of imaginative literature, and we are all wholesale borrowers. In every matter that relates to invention, to use,… — Wendell Phillips Copy Share Image
What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into… — Jonathan Miller Copy Share Image
We need imagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity. Television is filled with creative, imaginative… — Newton N. Minow Copy Share Image
Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to… — Robert Hewison 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
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
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
If plants could be credited with reasoning powers, we would marvel at the imaginative ways they bribe or ensnare other creatures to… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
I'm dyslexic. If you can reconcile yourself to not being able to burn through books, which you shouldn't any way, you can… — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
In many ways, astrology, numerology and palmistry are corruptions of the occult because they have attempted to make a practice out of… — Isaac Bashevis Singer Copy Share Image
Being a librarian certainly helped me with my writing because it made me even more of a reader, and I was always… — Margaret Mahy Copy Share Image
Cities have become places where we are controlled, by CCTV and other means, in the same way as machines are controlled. My… — Antony Gormley 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
I'm alienated from this world because its weird and I don't want to be a part of it. I want to be… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
When I was little, I put on plays for my family at Sunday dinner, and I would direct them and have all… — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
As a child, I read a great many books in which animals and birds played significant roles, not only in the narrative… — John Burnside Copy Share Image
The actor shouldn't edit themselves or be anxious. And the actors that I admire are always the ones who are inventive and… — Ralph Fiennes Copy Share Image
“The imaginative is produced by the human mind as it tries to respond to something greater than itself, struggling to find images… — Alister E. McGrath Copy Share Image
The prose of Joe Pulver can take its place with that of the masters of our genre – E.A. Poe, H.P. Lovecraft,… — S. T. Joshi Copy Share Image
![“[Richard Crossley's] previous bird guide, for ID'ing Eastern birds, is the most imaginative, original attempt to re-envision the birding guide and set his approach apart from that of Sibley, Kaufman, Peterson, Nat'l Geo, and the other bibles in the field.” quote by James Wolcott](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a38/james-wolcott-8178_approach_richard-crossley-s-previous-bird-guide-f_2227873.jpg)
