I had very strong feelings, so the chance to make a film that deals in an imaginative way with stuff you care tremendously about is a real high. It's a really amazing thing to be able to do.
~By Jonathan Demme ~
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
As we have seen, the wireless and the airplane have made the world so small and nations so dependent on each other that the only alternative to war is the United States of the World.
~By John Boyd Orr ~
Every philosophy is tinged with the coloring of some secret imaginative background, which never emerges explicitly into its train of reasoning.
~By Alfred North Whitehead ~
Basically, everything I try to do is to present an alternative to what somebody else is doing.
~By Matt Groening ~
It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
There are better alternatives... Australia should be exporting its solar technology, not its uranium.
~By Bob Brown ~
We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.
~By Benjamin Whorf ~
God is only a great imaginative experience.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
It's not difficult in South Africa for the ordinary person to see the link between capitalism and racist exploitation, and when one sees the link one immediately thinks in terms of a socialist alternative.
~By Joe Slovo ~
People didn't wasn't the People's party to come in to power again, so they saw NS a viable alternative not us, because everyone knew we were not ready.
~By Imran Khan ~
A theory has only the alternative of being right or wrong. A model has a third possibility: it may be right, but irrelevant.
~By Manfred Eigen ~
There is not an alternative to the US as the engine for growth.
~By Rodrigo Rato ~
I really feel now like a native New Yorker. And I'm very happy here.
~By Joan Collins ~
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
Al Zarqawi had a long history of terrorism. He was responsible for several bombings and beheadings in Iraq, including Pennsylvania native Nicholas Berg.
~By Tim Murphy ~
What is freedom? Freedom is the right to choose: the right to create for oneself the alternatives of choice.
~By Archibald MacLeish ~
But one day, when I was still young, I was parted from my family and left my native country. I hunted and searched for music, and destiny turned me into the object of my hunt. The circumstances of life became my 'antlers' and prevented me from returning home.
~By Georg Solti ~
Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.
~By Stephen Ambrose ~
It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
~By Cesare Pavese ~
Nirvana was pop. You can have distorted guitars and people say it's alternative, but you can't break out of pop music's constructs and still get extensive radio play and media coverage.
~By Kristin Hersh ~
We use a Native American tradition of the talking stick. You sit and pass it around and whoever has the stick has to talk. Some people just hold it. Others really share.
~By Lisa Bonet ~
Our plants had now increased to 252: as they were all kept on shore at the tent I augmented the guard there, though from the general conduct of the natives there did not appear the least occasion for so much caution.
~By William Bligh ~
The absence of alternatives clears the mind marvelously.
~By Henry A. Kissinger ~
To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.
~By Robert E. Sherwood ~
Education must, be not only a transmission of culture but also a provider of alternative views of the world and a strengthener of the will to explore them.
~By Jerome S. Bruner ~
Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of camels. The Americas had very few native domesticated animal species from which humans could acquire such diseases.
~By Jared Diamond ~
If you believe that health care is a public good to be guaranteed by the state, then a single-payer system is the next best alternative. Unfortunately, it is fiscally unsustainable without rationing.
~By Charles Krauthammer ~
I have been working for years to promote a responsible energy policy that works to increase energy efficiency and invest in alternative and renewable energy sources.
~By Lois Capps ~
Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen.
~By Ella Maillart ~
Every now and again, the alternative culture is cherished by the mainstream for what it is, rather than how it should be, like the mainstream popular music.
~By Thurston Moore ~
Children's talent to endure stems from their ignorance of alternatives.
~By Maya Angelou ~
I never fit in. I am a true alternative. And I love being the outcast. That's my role in life, to be an outcast.
~By Meat Loaf ~
Speed is scarcely the noblest virtue of graphic composition, but it has its curious rewards. There is a sense of getting somewhere fast, which satisfies a native American urge.
~By James Thurber ~
Through writing, through that process, they realize that they become more intelligent, and more honest and more imaginative than they can be in any other part of their life.
~By Russell Banks ~
A matter that seems to be very clear in terms of the alternative view, is what do you expect to happen in Africa with regard to immune systems, where people are poor, subject to repeat infections and all of that. Surely you would expect their immune systems to collapse.
~By Thabo Mbeki ~
Moon is also a naive native girl when she sets out for Carbuncle.
~By Joan D. Vinge ~
The view of the local scene through the eyes of a native participant in that scene is a different window.
~By Kenneth L. Pike ~
You may see the emergence of a new political party from the body of the trade union movement which represents a very clear-cut socialist alternative policy and which gives expression to the views of the trade union movement in parliament.
~By Arthur Scargill ~
In more recent years, I've become more and more fascinated with the indigenous folklore of this land, Native American folklore, and also Hispanic folklore now that I live in the Southwest.
~By Terri Windling ~
The Negroes are facing the alternative of rising in the sphere of production to supply their proportion of the manufacturers and merchants or of going down to the graves of paupers.
~By Carter G. Woodson ~
We have to stress our conservative credentials and emphasize that we are the natural, national alternative to the Liberals. Clearly the Alliance has shown it can't break out of its Western box. The Alliance is at single-digit support in three quarters of the country.
~By Peter MacKay ~
This old Germany was partly defeated in its conflict with the progressive ideas of socialism, for it had given the people nothing that could serve as a successful alternative to socialism.
~By Gustav Stresemann ~
You just have to stand and grit your teeth and know your poll numbers are going to go down - and mine have - but you gotta grit through it because the alternative is unacceptable.
~By Chris Christie ~
If a foreign country doesn't look like a middle-class suburb of Dallas or Detroit, then obviously the natives must be dangerous as well as badly dressed.
~By Lewis H. Lapham ~
I look at an ant and I see myself: a native South African, endowed by nature with a strength much greater than my size so I might cope with the weight of a racism that crushes my spirit.
~By Miriam Makeba ~
Organic buildings are the strength and lightness of the spiders' spinning, buildings qualified by light, bred by native character to environment, married to the ground.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
So it is in poetry. All we ask is that the mood recorded shall impress us as having been of the kind that exhausts the imaginative capacity; if it fails to do this the failure will announce itself either in prose or in insignificant verse.
~By John Drinkwater ~
Never walk away from failure. On the contrary, study it carefully and imaginatively for its hidden assets.
~By Michael Korda ~
Military confrontation is not a suitable alternative in confronting terror and current security threats.
~By Jalal Talabani ~
No funding for alternative sentencing instead of more prisons.
~By Jerry Weller ~
Children are so creative and imaginative that they just bring you to life all over again.
~By Moira Kelly ~
Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.
~By Cecil Beaton ~
The thing that makes me happiest about Simpsons Illustrated are all the drawings that we get from readers. I wish we could print them all. They're really imaginative. They show a lot of hard work.
~By Matt Groening ~
Jews are not part of a European ruling class imposed on helpless natives, but are caught up in a tragedy in which two peoples are struggling for the same piece of land.
~By Jack Schwartz ~
In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.
~By Emma Goldman ~
I'm a native New Yorker. Everything to do with New York feels like my family.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
There is no more reason why the features belonging to a picture should be distorted for the purpose of such imaginative suggestion than that the poet's metaphors should spoil his words for the ordinary uses of man.
~By William H. Hunt ~
The Native American side was tragic. It's just unbelievable what has happened to them.
~By Skeet Ulrich ~
By reducing our dependence of foreign oil and increasing alternative energy sources such as ethanol, we can begin to bring down prices at the pumps, create thousands of new jobs and bring a much needed boost to our economy.
~By Jim Ryun ~
The road to the future leads us smack into the wall. We simply ricochet off the alternatives that destiny offers. Our survival is no more than a question of 25, 50 or perhaps 100 years.
~By Jacques Yves Cousteau ~
A second type of direct evidence is formed by statements, whether as formal legends or personal information, regarding the age or relative sequence of events in tribal history made by the natives themselves.
~By Edward Sapir ~
In my book I specifically discussed the structural nature of injustice and offered Nine Touchstones of Goddess ethics as an alternative to the Ten Commandments of Biblical religion.
~By Carol P. Christ ~
What people want is not what some would call imaginative and often austere productions but very lavish productions which cast back into the auditorium an image of their affluence.
~By Jonathan Miller ~
If they understand, which I believe they really are sensing, that the alternative the Republicans have been offering is to repeal what we've done, to go back to Bush policies - and if you asked the public what would you prefer, Bush economic policies or Obama economic policies, they take and prefer Obama economic policies.
~By Carl Levin ~
I like the fact that kids are willing to be imaginative and go along with me when I'm telling strange tales.
~By Margaret Haddix ~
It's striking that Native Americans evolved no devastating epidemic diseases to give to Europeans, in return for the many devastating epidemic diseases that Indians received from the Old World.
~By Jared Diamond ~
I have a number of alternatives, and each one gives me something different.
~By Glenn Hoddle ~
There's an alternative. There's always a third way, and it's not a combination of the other two ways. It's a different way.
~By David Carradine ~
Be careful: they have arms, and no alternatives.
~By Ryszard Kapuscinski ~
Men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all the other alternatives.
~By Abba Eban ~
Most of these alternative arrangements, so-called, arise out of the ruins of marriages, not as an improvement of old fashioned marriage.
~By Christopher Lasch ~
Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.
~By Maurice Chevalier ~
I've always felt, in all my books, that there's a deep decency in the American people and a native intelligence - providing they have the facts, providing they have the information.
~By Studs Terkel ~
Like many students, I found the drudgery of real experiments and the slowness of progress a complete shock, and at my low points I contemplated other alternative careers including study of the philosophy or sociology of science.
~By Paul Nurse ~
The only way people are going to change their car buying habits, and the only way government will get behind alternatively fueled vehicles, is if gasoline prices continue to go up.
~By Alexandra Paul ~
People are different. People choose different criteria. But if there is a better way among many alternatives, I want to encourage that way by making it comfortable. So that's what I've tried to do.
~By Yukihiro Matsumoto ~
Regarding one's career: always be prepared, no short cuts - hard work is the only alternative that really works.
~By Kiana Tom ~
The home ownership process for Native Americans has been hobbled by bureaucratic delays and regulations.
~By Rick Renzi ~
If observed facts of undoubted accuracy will not fit any of the alternatives it leaves open, the system itself is in need of reconstruction.
~By Talcott Parsons ~
I am only interested in painting the actual person, in doing a painting of them, not in using them to some ulterior end of art. For me, to use someone doing something not native to them would be wrong.
~By Lucian Freud ~
The best translations cannot convey to us the strength and exquisite delicacy of thought in its native garb, and he to whom such books are shut flounders about in outer darkness.
~By Edwin Booth ~
The most common trait of all primitive peoples is a reverence for the life-giving earth, and the Native American shared this elemental ethic: The land was alive to his loving touch, and he, its son, was brother to all creatures.
~By Stewart Udall ~
In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.
~By Michael Musto ~
Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.
~By Edith Sitwell ~
Some Native American writers enjoy being called Native American writers.
~By Toni Morrison ~
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
~By William Shenstone ~
Italy is definitely where I feel most at home, or alternatively, living in total wilderness, in the bush in Australia.
~By Noah Taylor ~
Here, we tell the story: why the people came here, what they did when they got here, going back to the Native Americans and coming all the way forward.
~By Robert Patterson ~
Black and white are the colors of photography. To me they symbolize the alternatives of hope and despair to which mankind is forever subjected.
~By Robert Frank ~
When I went back to visit my native Berlin after World War II, I noticed that the only thing I really remembered from my childhood Berlin days is the shoe store.
~By Lukas Foss ~
It is important that Congress works to promote home ownership in Indian Country. These federal housing funds and programs will help young Native American families to stay on tribal lands in order to live, work and raise a family.
~By Rick Renzi ~
I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.
~By William Friedkin ~
It almost seems that nobody can hate America as much as native Americans. America needs new immigrants to love and cherish it.
~By Eric Hoffer ~
Symbols are the imaginative signposts of life.
~By Margot Asquith ~
Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today.
~By Herman Wouk ~
And my point was one I think that you'd agree with, which is there's no room in America for a black racist, a Latino racist, or a white racist, or an Asian racist, or a Native American racist. Now, we're either color blind or we're not color blind.
~By Newt Gingrich ~
I have been particularly struck with the overwhelming evidence which is given as to the fitness of the natives of India for high offices and employments.
~By Richard Cobden ~
A long apprenticeship is the most logical way to success. The only alternative is overnight stardom, but I can't give you a formula for that.
~By Chet Atkins ~
I mean, all alternative comedy is are comedians that have being doing it for so long, for so long, that they were relaxed enough to start becoming personal on stage.
~By Patton Oswalt ~
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