We love old travelers: we love to hear them prate, drivel and lie; we love them for their asinine vanity, their ability… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's… — Jane Campion Copy Share Image
It's essential for us to develop an imagination that is participatory. Art is the primary way in which this happens. It's the… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
An imagination is a powerful tool. It can tint memories of the past, shade perceptions of the present, or paint a future… — Jim Davis Copy Share Image
The imagination is a place all by itself. A separate country. Now, you've heard of the French nation, the British nation. Well,… — George Seaton Copy Share Image
Thus man of all creatures is more than a creature, he is also a creator. Man alone can direct his success mechanism… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
Nor do I hear in my imagination the parts successively, but I hear them, as it were, all at once (gleich dies… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
“Imagination can be concentrated by attention to build positive outcomes—harmonious structures, communities, technologies, even worlds—but it can just as easily be harnessed… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
That experience of touching down in a totally foreign place is like having a blank canvas: You begin with nothing, but stroke… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even… — Daniel Espinosa Copy Share Image
“After my mom died she ate my father up completely. She would have hated it. Every minute of his life since then… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“It is inconceivable that any form of intelligence would waste so much time and effort to make such an inferior piece of… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
How was it that he haunted her imagination so persistently? What could it be? Why did she care for what he thought,… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“The imagination can be a kind of wilderness, too, in fact a wasteland, if you allow it to take you into one… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented… — Jack Vance Copy Share Image
Israel is a wonderful place to be an artist - a place where imagination flourishes. Israeli culture is refreshingly avant garde -… — Ryan Kavanaugh Copy Share Image
“How did he get his ideas? “I’m enough of an artist to draw freely on my imagination. Imagination is more important than… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“It's a huge disservice to classify all minds as either closed or open. I find the best minds are closed by openable… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
The Physician, by the study and inspection of urine and ordure, approves himself in the science; and in like sort should our… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
“I think imagination is one of the greatest blessings of life, and while one can lose oneself in a book one can… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination,… — Maria Callas Copy Share Image
“Every reader writes the book he or she reads, supplying what isn't there, and that creative invention becomes the book.” — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Do not build up obstacles in your imagination. Difficulties must be studied and dealt with, but they must not be magnfiied by… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
“Nine-tenths of that which is attributed to sexuality is the work of our magnificent ability to imagine, which is no longer an… — José Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
My vision do you know who is the person that mean to me every second my angle and my fantasy hope n… — Isuru EMSTUN Copy Share Image
It is the writer who might catch the imagination of young people, and plant a seed that will flower and come to… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they dont fit in with normal, healthy people. — Henry Williamson Copy Share Image
The writer cultivates, extends, raises and inflates his imagination, sure that this is his destiny, his usefulness, his contribution to the understanding… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
Of all the meals that represented British culture, perhaps none captured the imagination more than the Christmas pudding. It was the Victorians… — Kwasi Kwarteng Copy Share Image
“Clearly, imagining cannot be expected to mean exactly the same thing today as it did in the Middle Ages or antiquity. For… — Richard Kearney Copy Share Image
If you can keep something very personal, like a song, like a color, like a story, deep in your heart, then nobody… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
If we would succeed in works of the imagination, we must offer a mild morality in the midst of rigid manners; but… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
I made little short films to make people laugh, Whether you did or not it don't matter. Then here I go and… — Jennifer Amorelli Copy Share Image
“Toys can be anything; children can play all morning with a stone and a plastic bucket. It is about how imaginative conductive… — Iben Dissing Sandahl Copy Share Image
