The higher the general average of intelligence all things else being equal the less the disposition to be meddlesome critical and overbearing.

A John Updike is a once-in-a-generation phenomenon if that generation is lucky: so comfortable in so many genres the same lively generous intelligence suffusing all he did.

In the clashes between ignorance and intelligence ignorance is generally the aggressor.

When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour ' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.

I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.

The conscious process is reflected in the imagination the unconscious process is expressed as karma the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.

Generally speaking a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.

The president of General Motors was in a foul humor.

Probably it is impossible for humor to be ever a revolutionary weapon. Candide can do little more than generate irony.