#imaginative

Individually, museums are fine institutions, dedicated to the high values of preservation, education and truth; collectively, their growth in numbers points to the imaginative death of this country. ↗

— Robert Hewison

#country #death #dedicated #education #fine

I think being an artist, or just being creative, or imaginative, or aware, where I think everybody starts out, and by about the age of 10, that's been pretty effectively whipped out by education. ↗

— William Wiley

#age #artist #aware #been #being

Heaven is comfort, but it's still not living. ↗

— Alice Sebold

#haunting #imaginative #inspirational #murder #personal-growth

If we were to select the most intelligent, imaginative, energetic, and emotionally stable third of mankind, all races would be present. ↗

— Franz Boas

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Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain. ↗

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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The higher American patriotism, on the other hand, combines loyalty to historical tradition and precedent with the imaginative projection of an ideal national Promise. ↗

— Herbert Croly

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The only imaginative fiction being written today is income tax returns. ↗

— Herman Wouk

#fiction #imaginative #income #income tax #only

Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life. ↗

— Margot Asquith

#life #signposts #symbols

People are going to think I'm morbid, loving all these sad books. I actually don't mind a happy ending in a novel—certainly, it's nice when it happens. But when you've invested so much time and your fingers have pushed through all that paper and you get to the end…well, a tragic ending kind of goes with the tragedy of finishing a book. ↗

— Julia Roberts

#hardy-s #imaginative #thomas #woman #imagination

One key to life is to be realistic by being more than imaginative. ↗

— Jesse Thompson

#life #imagination