Virtually every kid is exposed to giants and ogres and talking wolves, and so forth. And magic. And I think you never… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
We will destroy you,” the Flyboys droned. “You have no escape.” That was the most imaginative, threatening thing the whitecoats had programmed… — James Patterson 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
[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
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
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
I see the carpet reflecting that narratological structure of the storytelling, with Scheherazade as the outside frame story on the outside, with… — Marina Warner 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
What is less often noticed is that it is precisely the kind of moral instruction that parents are constantly trying to give… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I said earlier that I do not believe an artist's life throws much light upon his works. I do believe, however, that,… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
The soaring, imaginative minds of men, constructing lofty, shimmering piles of abstract thought, and taking as their postulate a revelation from God,… — Charlotte Perkins Gilman Copy Share Image
It is high time that laymen abandoned the misleading belief that scientific enquiry is a cold dispassionate enterprise, bleached of imaginative qualities,… — Peter Medawar 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
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
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
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
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
“Just as Wallace learned and evolved, Ali was on his own journey of discovery. Starting out as a 15-year-old cook, Ali learned… — Paul Spencer Sochaczewski Copy Share Image
The best possible solutions come only from a combination of a rational analysis based on the nature of things, and imaginative reintegration… — Kenichi Ohmae Copy Share Image
“The child race is fresh, eager, interested, innocent, imaginative, healthy and full of faith, where the adult race, more often than not,… — William Saroyan Copy Share Image
I've always set my stories in places I know well. It frees me up to spend more imaginative time on the characters… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
We are terribly imaginative, as far as technique in science is concerned. As far as changes in social arrangements are concerned, we… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Kay was older and bigger than the Wart, so that he was bound to win in the end, but he was more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not good at standing on platforms and persuading people to my political point of view. Nor would I seek to. My… — David Hare Copy Share Image
...the cosmology of a given age is not the result of unilinear, "scientific" development, but rather the most striking, imaginative symbol of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
Of course, it's wonderful to film any period piece - but especially 'Foyle's War' because the art direction is so imaginative and… — Honeysuckle Weeks Copy Share Image
Imaginative writing has always been a solitary and indeed a somewhat antisocial activity. Apprenticeship existed, no doubt, but it was an apprenticeship… — Madison Smartt Bell Copy Share Image
I hadn't really thought about this until 'The Lake of Dreams,' but I've set all my stories in places that are familiar… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
The best art is about individualism, free self-expression and realising a unique, imaginative perspective- A true artist takes no notice whatever of… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Utopias have their value -- nothing so wonderfully expands the imaginative horizons of human potentialities -- but as guides to conduct they… — Isaiah Berlin Copy Share Image
History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points… — Geoffrey Elton Copy Share Image