“If necessity is the mother of invention than imagination must be the egg. Nothing can be invented which has not first been… — Chrissy Byers Copy Share Image
RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
When forced to work within a strict framework, the imagination is taxed to its utmost and will produce its richest ideas. Given… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
Gather knowledge... Visit galleries, museums, art and craft fairs... Read books and magazines. Take workshops. Use your senses. Experience stimulates your memory… — Nita Leland Copy Share Image
That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow. — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
“Además no es tan malo vivir solo. Yo la paso bien, decidiendo a cada instante lo que quiero hacer, y gracias a… — Facundo Cabral Copy Share Image
I have a recurring fantasy that one more article has been added to the Bill of Rights: the right to free access… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
Japan is a wonderful country, a strange mixture of ancient mystique and cyberpunk saturation. It's a monolith of society's achievements, yet maintains… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
Ensor sees with his imagination, but his vision is perfectly accurate, of an almost geometric precision. He is one of the very… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
“If you sell, say, two thousand copies, it is the same thing as if you had sold nothing at all because two… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
“But let's suppose another way of considering her, which was that she had a special conviction of imagination. Few of us do,… — Chang-rae Lee Copy Share Image
What I do is, I'm like a disease that infects real people and I take them over. We can start off in… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
“silhouettes of your imagination splashes of a picture on a magazine Is there a mind behind the face? if you met your… — Sondra Faye Copy Share Image
It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can… — David Bailey Copy Share Image
My parents both worked; I was a 'latchkey kid.' We were lower-middle class, and they did everything that they could to give… — Michelle Visage Copy Share Image
A writer needs three things, experience, observation, and imagination, any two of which, at times any one of which, can supply the… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui. — Letitia Elizabeth Landon Copy Share Image
Go on and close your eyes, go on imagine me there She's got similar features with longer hair And if that's what… — Melissa Etheridge Copy Share Image
On hearing about powerful love, respond, be moved like an aesthete. Only, fortunate as you've been, remember how much your imagination created… — C.P. Cavafy Copy Share Image
The meaning of spirituality is to be healthy and happy; to be physically, emotionally and mentally strong. We can't find this with… — Ratu Bagus Copy Share Image
Also with that money comes the idea, "Let your imagination run wild." Which I think is a very dangerous thing. I think… — Taika Waititi Copy Share Image
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid… — Sofia Kovalevskaya Copy Share Image
My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as… — Jarrett J. Krosoczka Copy Share Image
A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If you want to be free with your imagination, you need to be very realistic, but you have also to shift things… — Alice Rohrwacher Copy Share Image
Toy Story 3 is so besotted with brand names and product-placement that it stops being about the innocent pleasures of imagination --… — Armond White Copy Share Image
It's the idea that anticipation is as scary as anything in a movie could be. People's imagination is the most effective tool… — Matt Reeves Copy Share Image
“Therefore the man of genius requires imagination, in order to see in things not what nature has actually formed, but what she… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Without faith, there is no imagination; without imagination, there is no innovation; and without innovation, there is no future.” — Mitri Raheb Copy Share Image
Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I had never been a comic book person before, really, because I had no access to them. Once I had access, I… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
Engineering problems are under-defined, there are many solutions, good, bad and indifferent. The art is to arrive at a good solution. This… — Ove Arup Copy Share Image
...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
