Imagination consists in expelling from reality several incomplete persons, and then using the magic and subversive powers of desire to bring them… — Rene Char Copy Share Image
As long as you have imagination, you never need to work. You never get bored. You could just walk around and go… — Nellie McKay Copy Share Image
the virtue of imagination has this in common with the virtue of courage. Without it, you are less good: with it, you… — Pamela Frankau Copy Share Image
If you're a doctor, what do you promise to do? First, do no harm. If your operating philosophy is do no harm,… — Jay S. Walker Copy Share Image
Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together. — Jacques Maritain Copy Share Image
My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was… — Frank Abagnale Copy Share Image
Imagine the universe beautiful and just and perfect. Then be sure of one thing: The Is has imagined it quite a bit… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
“I think repressing what happened is what saved me in my childhood. I was able to use my imagination to create happy… — Erin Merryn Copy Share Image
“His (Samuel Coleridge) dark senses were constantly in play, the frustration of them bringing illness. Weather and organic nature combined in a… — Peter Redgrove Copy Share Image
“I know this about imagination: It needs a place to go. If I don't work at my cards and images and letterpress,… — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
Would I if I could by pushing a button would I kill five thousand Chinamen if I could save my brother from… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the less we know about what will happen in a work of fiction, the better off we are. Because the more… — Dermot Bolger Copy Share Image
No skill, no special aptitude, no vividness of imagination or precision of thinking would go unrecognized because the child who possessed it… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Mathematics is often erroneously referred to as the science of common sense. Actually, it may transcend common sense and go beyond either… — Edward Kasner Copy Share Image
Cities have always offered anonymity, variety, and conjunction, qualities best basked in by walking: one does not have to go into the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
The fear and anxiety of baring my soul is transcended by the thrill and honor and wonderfulness of being able to touch… — Elizabeth Kim Copy Share Image
Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear, we are… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
Men become superstitious, not because they have too much imagination, but because they are not aware that they have any. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
What I'm looking for is a self-promoting film; a movie which immediately gets people's imagination is something I can promote - a… — Jeremy Thomas Copy Share Image
“imagination was a cancer of the heart. All those lives you carried around in your head that you wouldn't ever get to… — Strange Weather Joe Hill Copy Share Image
When you're reading something, your imagination goes and you see it in your mind. Sometimes my instincts with that are right, and… — Alexandra Breckenridge Copy Share Image
That, of course, is what great works of imagination do for us: They make us a little restless, destabilize us, question our… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Few ideas are in themselves practical. It is for want of imagination in applying them that they fail. The creative process does… — John D. Arnold Copy Share Image
Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
Our imagination may take us on amazing journeys but it all ends when we come into reality and realize that if we… — Wheaton Copy Share Image
Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
“Vary your training, your running partners, and your environment. Only your imagination limits the ways you can spice up your running routine.” — Bob Glover Copy Share Image
Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
My forte is editing and I am most experienced in that. I love the challenge of playing with material and imagination while… — Vikramaditya Motwane Copy Share Image
In terms of essays, I would say Oliver Sacks. His breadth of hard knowledge and imagination and empathy seems to constitute the… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
“He who indulges habitually in the intoxicating pleasures of imagination, for the very reason that he reaps a greater pleasure than others,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified,… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented… — Elisabeth Sladen Copy Share Image
People like us, who believe in physics, know that the distinction between past, present, and future is only a stubbornly persistent illusion. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Michele realized that what she took for granted as the simple necessities of life, he saw it as a story beyond imagination.” — Alexandra Monir Copy Share Image
