“The beauty of fiction is it need not be factual and the writer's imagination can travel as far from reality as he… — Sheldon Friedman Copy Share Image
I remember finishing a monologue, looking up, and seeing people really moved and then being like, 'Oh, my imagination just took me… — Jaz Sinclair Copy Share Image
Music teaches the Soul understanding of harmony. Math describes that harmony with equations, rates and rhythms. Given to that, aren't we all… — George Zafiris Copy Share Image
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is therefore not at all a desirable… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Success is never an accident. It typically starts as imagination, becomes a dream, stimulates a goal, grows into a plan of action… — Dan Miller Copy Share Image
I think that being read to every night is the reason why I was plowing through volume after volume of 'Nancy Drew'… — Rachel Nichols Copy Share Image
When you see something from afar, you develop a fantasy. But when you see it up close, 9 times out of 10,… — Josh Hartnett Copy Share Image
"Genius is just enduring patience," said Buffon. This is far from complete. Genius is impatience in ideas and patience with the facts:… — Leo Errera Copy Share Image
The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.… — Henry James Copy Share Image
Although no definite reason for the accident has been established, modifications are being embodied to cover every possibility that imagination has suggested… — John Moore-Brabazon, 1st Baron Brabazon of Tara Copy Share Image
People are more used to seeing men who are masters at an instrument than women. When people say, 'Oh, she plays like… — Esperanza Spalding Copy Share Image
The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The… — John Desmond Bernal Copy Share Image
A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him,… — Andrew Sean Greer Copy Share Image
I feel like the Internet needs to be disarmed in some way. There needs to be a philosophical undermining of the Internet.… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Since the journey is a metaphor - the most ambiguous and seductive of metaphors, we tell ourselves - it can also be… — Dacia Maraini Copy Share Image
Music is made of what we do when we move, and we can only move in certain ways, in certain ranges of… — Vijay Iyer Copy Share Image
Man, without a saving touch of woman in him, is too doltish, too naive and romantic, too easily deluded and lulled to… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The imagination is an organ of understanding. And the imagination needs all the faculties at hand, all the sensibility, all the conscious… — Edward Hirsch Copy Share Image
You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“I have a habit of letting my imagination run away from me. It always comes back though . . . drenched with possibilities.” — Valaida Fullwood Copy Share Image
Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the… — James Altucher Copy Share Image
A man, to carry on a successful business, must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of… — Charles M. Schwab Copy Share Image
The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The erotic and the art historical imagination is something that gets very little play when people talk about my work, and when… — Kehinde Wiley Copy Share Image
To be truly visionary we have to root our imagination in our concrete reality while simultaneously imagining possibilities beyond that reality. — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
Intuition is linear; our imaginations are weak. Even the brightest of us only extrapolate from what we know now; for the most… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“Reality became something of the past five minutes ago, replaced with a dirty fantasy she’d conjured up in her bed late at… — V. Theia Copy Share Image
Any media-brainwashed automaton can summon the insipid courage to peer into the horrifying abyss. But it takes a freaking genius with a… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination… — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
I believe we have an obligation to read for pleasure, in private and in public places. If we read for pleasure, if… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Imagination is no longer conceived as simplistically opposed to perception and reason; rather, perception and reason are recognised as being always informed… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
Fashion cannot make you sexy. Experience makes you sexy. Imagination makes people sexy. You have to train yourself, you have to study,… — Yohji Yamamoto Copy Share Image
Perhaps we might, within the anatomy of our imaginations, think once more of the naked body as a vessel of grace, taste… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
Success is ninety-nine percent mental attitude. It calls for love, joy, optimism, confidence, serenity, poise, faith, courage, cheerfulness, imagination, initiative, tolerance, honesty,… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
“The power of things inheres in the memories they gather up inside them, and also in the vicissitudes of our imagination, and… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There… — Don Novello Copy Share Image
The very remoteness kindles the imagination of the adventurous hunter. From the top of any mountain the challenge extends far and wide,… — Fred Bear Copy Share Image
“Everyone needs to escape sometimes, and retreating into somebody else's fantasy isn't nearly as satisfying as slipping into your own.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
As great a picture can be made as one's mental capacity-no greater. Art cannot be taught; it must be self-inspiration, though the… — Edward Weston Copy Share Image
