“…no person, no matter how vivid an imagination he may have, can invent anything half so droll as the freaks and fancies… — Louisa May Alcott Copy Share Image
Tennis's beauty's infinite roots are self-competitive. You compete with your own limits to transcend the self in imagination and execution. Disappear inside… — David Foster Copy Share Image
Virtual reality is a denial of reality. We need to be open to the powers of imagination, which brings something useful to… — Hayao Miyazaki Copy Share Image
We try to think new, think big but someone whom we share our thoughts with makes us believe that we were living… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine, and at last you create what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many sci-fi authors, we know, are as clever and tricky as so many Coyotes. Ms. Le Guin, though, has matured from the… — Tom Shippey Copy Share Image
We once turned to popular culture because it produced fantasy objects; now, we are asked to 'identify with' the fantasising subject itself. — Mark Fisher Copy Share Image
“How sad is it when a luxurious imagination is obliged in self defense to deaden its delicacy in vulgarity, and riot in… — John Keats Copy Share Image
Whether as living humans or as mythological figures, ancestors have always played an important role in the African popular and literary imagination.… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
Reality is the richest thing there is, the most important thing there is. Our imagination allows us to live an artificial life… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Were a man to spend only one day in Sicily and ask, "What must one see?" I would answer him without hesitation,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
I realized the shells were talking in a voice I recognized. I should have; it was my own. Had I always known… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The statue is then beautiful when it begins to be incomprehensible, when it is passing out of criticism, and can no longer… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
There is a philosophy that says that if something is unobservable -- unobservable in principle -- it is not part of science.… — Leonard Susskind Copy Share Image
Panic: A highly underrated capacity thanks to which individuals are able to indicate clearly that something is wrong. Given their head, most… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Books that children read but once are of scant service to them; those that have really helped to warm our imaginations and… — Agnes Repplier Copy Share Image
I am absorbed in the magic of movement and light. Movement never lies. It is the magic of what I call the… — Martha Graham Copy Share Image
“The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
I had a very active imagination as a kid, and I was constantly performing, whether I was making money doing it or… — Laura Bell Bundy Copy Share Image
Nothing matters more to AA's future welfare than the manner in which we use the colossus of modern communication. Used unselfishly and… — Bill W Copy Share Image
We're all unique as actors. To yourself, you are unique, you have to think 'I'm me, I'm not going to bunch myself… — Imelda Staunton Copy Share Image
I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Imagination They say adults have no imagination. Not true. Just instead of dinosaurs and spaceships, they imagine silence and the new babysitter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A statement of vision is the overarching purpose, the big dream, the visionary concept-something presently out of reach-so stated that it excites… — Robert K. Greenleaf Copy Share Image
I love connecting with kids. I love connecting with children of all ages to keep their imagination active because that's the key… — Greg Cipes Copy Share Image
When France was the only reference for chefs to learn, you could go everywhere in the world, and they would copy dishes… — Daniel Boulud Copy Share Image
Whether it's at a concert in France or a restaurant in the United States, terrorism doesn't have to happen in a military… — Bill Goldberg Copy Share Image
“Felix had gone to live in a lotus land of his imagination. Where what is desired is dreamed of as already happened,… — Iain Pears Copy Share Image
Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on… — Alan Hirsch Copy Share Image
I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner… — Lynn Nottage Copy Share Image
For me, the distant future and far-off galaxies is where it's at. That's where my imagination can really come out to play. — Alastair Reynolds Copy Share Image
“He ached for creation. For life to somehow rise from the drawings in his sketching book. For his own energy, his own… — C.S. Richardson Copy Share Image
From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Put the world's greatest philosopher on a plank that is wider than need be; if there is a precipe below, although his… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Programmed by quanta, physics gave rise first to chemistry and then to life; programmed by mutations and recombination, life gave rise to… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
But nothing less than the most radical imagination will carry us beyond this place, beyond the mere struggle for survival, to that… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
I believe in imagination. I was a worker when I was 17. Between 17 and 21, I was a worker in the… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
“Creating fantasy is real work, important work. It’s a hard, cold world we live in, and sometimes we need to escape. Sometimes… — G.A. McKevett Copy Share Image
Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
“Einstein said, “Imagination is more important than knowledge.” If we rely solely on the facts, there will never be a transformation. Freedom… — Alan Watt Copy Share Image
