Prophetic Imagination Quotes

#1. I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life with your imagination, then what you write ought to have lasting value, no matter what the mood of your prose.

Paul Theroux

#2. For me now, it's about what you would write and what you wouldn't write, and that's how I select what I am going to do. It can be quite nice being brought a concept by a studio for me to work on.

Neil Jordan

#3. Money is merely a reward for solving problems.

Mike Murdock

#4. Whenever I'm with you, I'm home.

Jeff Rich

#5. There's always something else to work on and different solutions to these problems in the next thing. We each have a certain set of obsessions which we each cycle through.

Leni Zumas

#6. I wake up thinking of yesterday. The joy is in remembering; the pain is in knowing it was yesterday.

David Levithan

#7. People watch what you do more than listen to what you say.

Seth Godin

#8. Always look at the function, its not what you did but why do you do it? Once you find the why then you walk through another door

Matt Broadway-Horner

#9. Grammar is not a set of arbitrary rules; it is a compact between people who wish to understand each other.

Robert Breault

#10. She lowered her lashes until they almost cuddled her cheeks and slowly raised them again, like a theatre curtain. I was to get to know that trick. That was supposed to make me roll over on my back with all four paws in the air.

Raymond Chandler

#11. The difference between a Miracle and a Fact is exactly the difference between a mermaid and a seal.

Mark Twain

#12. What we are after is first noticing and then participating in the way the large world of the Bible absorbs the much smaller world of our science and economics and politics that provides the so-called worldview in which we are used to working out our daily concerns.

Eugene H. Peterson

#13. Animism is worth considering (a) because it exists, (b) because it addresses contemporary issues and debates, and (c) because it clarifies, in various ways, the argument that the project of modernity is ill-conceived and dangerously performed.

Graham Harvey

#14. Prophetic preaching is dangerous work, not only because it has a subversive edge but because it requires an epistemological break with the assumed world of dominant imagination. This epistemological break makes us aware of our assumptions we have not recognized or reflected upon.

Walter Brueggemann

#15. Savage mothers eat their children!

Michael McDowell

#16. Memoirs give the knowledge about the author and his environment. They are different from biography. Memoirs do not get ahead, and the man who writes a biography looks at his future like at a very simple thing.

Arthur Golden