Genius must have talent as its complement and implement, just as in like manner imagination must have fancy. In short, the higher… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It's as difficult to… — Garry Disher Copy Share Image
It's important to read because it's really good for your vocabulary. It's really good for your imagination. I enjoy reading because I… — Emma Watson Copy Share Image
I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they… — Reeve Carney Copy Share Image
Violins are the lively, forward, importunate wits, that distinguish themselves by the flourishes of imagination, sharpness of repartee, glances of satire, and… — Richard Steele Copy Share Image
A common and usually unfortunate answer is “Write about what you know.” Nothing can be more limiting to the imagination, nothing is… — John Gardner Copy Share Image
Reducing and reusing take nothing more than a rethink on the way we shop, and using our imagination with the things that… — Sheherazade Goldsmith Copy Share Image
If I could put my hand on the north star, would it be as beautiful? The sea is lovely, but when we… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“In the campaign of 1876, Robert G. Ingersoll came to Madison to speak. I had heard of him for years; when I… — Robert M. La Follette Copy Share Image
When your parents regulate everything you hear and everything you intake, it forces you to get creative in other ways. It sparked… — SZA Copy Share Image
For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
[Modern science] passed through a long period of uncertainty and inconclusive experiment, but as the instrumental aids to research improved, and the… — Thomas George Bonney Copy Share Image
Hold a picture of yourself long and steadily enough in your mind's eye and you will be drawn toward it. Picture yourself… — Harry Emerson Fosdick Copy Share Image
“Better minds have said it before, but I don’t mind repeating it less well again and again: Reading, like the natural world,… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“There is an implicit recognition here that important things in life are not always immediately visible, and can't always be named, or… — Shaun Tan Copy Share Image
Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality, the imagination… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but… — Helen Rowland Copy Share Image
We imagine much more appropriately an artisan on his toilet seat or on his wife than a great president, venerable by his… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the… — Richard Eyre Copy Share Image
This world of sense, built by the imagination--how fair and foul it is! Like a fairy island in the sea of life,… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination Authenticity is invaluable; originality is non-existent. And don’t… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
“You can go as far as your mind let you. The power of imagination makes us infinite. To love means loving the… — Aesha K Shah Copy Share Image
“The best thing about being a writer is the ability to live vicariously through your own imagination, with no boundaries as to… — Dawn Goodwin Copy Share Image
Why, why, when one writes, does a sort of shackle bind one's imagination? I become conscious of a deadening mediocrity, perhaps a… — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all… — James Dean Copy Share Image
It is a failure of imagination and methodology to claim that it is necessary to experiment on millions of people without their… — Kate Crawford Copy Share Image
I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It not seldom happens that in the purposeless rovings and wanderings of the imagination we hunt down such game as can be… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When walking alone in a jungle of true darkness, there are three things that can show you the way: instinct to survive,… — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
Give up identification with this mass of flesh as well as with what thinks it a mass. Both are intellectual imaginations. Recognise… — Adi Shankara Copy Share Image
I'm not a massive artist by any stretch of the imagination. Yes, I've been in papers and magazines, but you never have… — Ben Eine Copy Share Image
We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
I started track and field when I was 12 and didn't get to an Olympic Games until I was nearly 23. By… — Sebastian Coe Copy Share Image
I, myself, have had many failures and I've learned that if you are not failing a lot, you are probably not being… — John Backus Copy Share Image
The hairline difference between imagination and hallucination is that imagination finds always limitless reality, whereas hallucination binds itself within the limits of… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
“A book is a magic carpet that flies you off somewhere. A book is a door. You open it. You step through.… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form… — Ralph Eugene Meatyard Copy Share Image
When you read a book, you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading it, in which… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
“Storytelling is a creative way to engage a young child who is not ready to read books. Imagination is the key to… — Cassie Pope Copy Share Image
Long may Louis de Broglie continue to inspire those who suspect that what is proved by impossibility proofs is lack of imagination. — John Stewart Bell Copy Share Image
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