Science fiction is my way of pushing the imagination onward. It's a way to understand how the world will look in the… — Bernard Werber Copy Share Image
Artists are... stubborn egomaniacs who are mysteriously - and sometimes correctly - certain that the world needs to know all about the… — Jon Pareles Copy Share Image
Writing has always been an incredible outlet for me to feel like I have a voice, even when sometimes I was the… — Natalya Neidhart Copy Share Image
“I never wait for summer vacation. In deep winter, I warm-up my mind with the fire of my thoughts and swim in… — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
He considered it a shame when people couldn't grasp the infinite-a failure not just of imagination but of simple vision. — Jess Walter Copy Share Image
It is not that love sometimes makes mistakes, but that it is, essentially, a mistake. We fall in love when our imagination… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The instant trivial as it is is all we have unless-unless things the imagination feeds upon, the scent of the rose, startle… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to. — Keith Barry Copy Share Image
“The boy thought, How powerful a story is, and how by a kind of magic it compels the imagination; there was nothing… — Glenway Wescott Copy Share Image
Some Iraqi writers are more daring today and have excellent imaginations and their material is rich in human experience. But the Arab… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
I think humans have always felt watched back by whatever is out there flickering in the distance. What excites me is what… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I am a little girl lost in the fantasy of imagination; never wanting to grow up; loving everyone. I am a teenager… — Rachel C Copy Share Image
Cherie, did the table do something I did not see or were you just attempting to teach it a lesson?" "I was… — Alexandra Ivy Copy Share Image
Hearing him speak is so fun, reassuring I dare say. You can say all you like about Sihanouk: that he's an atrocious… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“Environmental history is, among other things, a lengthy account of human beings over and over imagining their way into a serious pickle.” — Elliott West Copy Share Image
We have a vision of creating an imagination platform - the ultimate platform for play. A place for kids around the world… — David Baszucki Copy Share Image
To refine, to clarify, to intensify that eternal moment in which we alone live there is but a single force the imagination. — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
It is through the intentionality of poetic imagination that the poet's soul discovers the opening of consciousness common to all true poetry. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
One time my mom tried to send me to my room for a time-out when I was 5 or 6, and I… — Elizabeth Olsen Copy Share Image
It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this… — Olivier Martinez Copy Share Image
One of the things I've always loved about genre, comic books, science fiction and fantasy is that there's a certain level of… — Noah Hawley Copy Share Image
It's very important that we keep our imagination, which is our capacity to open the future, awake at a time at which… — Timothy Morton Copy Share Image
“There’s always a storm brewing in my mind, sometimes it rains, sometimes it pours; but always my imagination needs to be released.” — Kimberly Humphreys Copy Share Image
For me, it's important to experience aesthetic shock, which sets in motion our imagination, our emotions, our feelings, and our thoughts. That's… — Pierre Soulages Copy Share Image
The web is my unconscious but it's also a wish -- a fantasy of what my own creativity might look like if… — Alison Bechdel Copy Share Image
Your curse is that you have chosen a form that requires endless study … It means you have to read, you have… — Stella Adler Copy Share Image
Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
When human power becomes so great and original that we can account for it only as a kind of divine imagination, we… — William Crashaw Copy Share Image
The sound and proper exercise of the imagination may be made to contribute to the cultivation of all that is virtuous and… — John Abercrombie Copy Share Image
It was David McCullough's 'The Johnstown Flood' that lit my imagination as to how I might one day go about writing book-length… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
I want to make my kind of films but make them work commercially, too. When my presentation meets the director's imagination, the… — Vijay Sethupathi Copy Share Image
Because some of my at-home life was rough and lonely, I often looked to escape into my imagination. Science fiction provided a… — Keahu Kahuanui Copy Share Image
“Immigration inevitably involves error and revision. What I imagined it would be, it's not. For better or worse, some mistake is unavoidable.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Love is a figure of the imagination, we made it up, just like the hearts we draw that stand for love no… — MeXiCaNa51 Copy Share Image
I have truly been inspired by the struggle and triumphs of so many women that dare to break new ground in all… — Christina Koch Copy Share Image
Expressing feelings is linked directly with creation... In this ability to tap the sources of feeling and imagination lies the secret of… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that… — Alfred Kazin Copy Share Image
“You’re just a figment of my imagination. A fantasy?” “Yes.” He didn’t dare move. “Then why are you still wearing clothes?” — Mina Khan Copy Share Image
