I think the written word is my first love. I was just a very imagination - centered child and a big part… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
I really can't write fantasy. I cannot invent a world which does not exist. And I can't read fantasy either. As soon… — Michael Morpurgo Copy Share Image
If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long as he is allowed to live on… — Mary Daly Copy Share Image
He is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The primary imagination I hold to be the living power and prime agent of all human perception, and as a repetition in… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
When the idea of any pleasure strikes your imagination, make a just computation between the duration of the pleasure and that of… — Epictetus Copy Share Image
“If life beats us up, while we have our back to the wall, there is no other way than exorcising fear and… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Language does not matter to audience if content is good. It is the director's belief which is translated on screen and roles… — Mukul Dev Copy Share Image
“I do exist, don’t I? It often feels as if I’m not here, that I’m a figment of my own imagination. There… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
To live in the memories, to live in the imagination, is to live in the non-existential. And when you are living in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I learned what research was all about as a research student [with] Stoppani ... Max Perutz, and ... Fred Sanger... From them,… — Cesar Milstein Copy Share Image
There are instances: [Henry David] Thoreau read [John] Wordsworth, [John] Muir read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt read Muir, and you got national parks.… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men,… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
Life is amazingly unpredictable; any 22-year-old who thinks they know where they will be in 10 years, much less in 30, is… — Ben Bernanke Copy Share Image
“The mind, after being confined at home for a while, sends the imagination abroad in quest of new treasures; and the body… — Hannah Webster Foster Copy Share Image
When there are no lyrics there are many parts of the imagination that can fill in the meanings of the music, so… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
Just because something is told as a story and that story is part legend or myth, or feat of imagination, does not… — Chris Priestley Copy Share Image
We are what we imagine. Our very existence consists in our imagination of ourselves. Our best destiny is to imagine, at least,… — N. Scott Momaday Copy Share Image
“Without the dreamers who write science fiction and other imaginary material we'd still be sitting in caves ... if we weren't already extinct.” — William C. Samples Copy Share Image
If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
Study the situation thoroughly, go over in your imagination the various courses of action possible to you and the consequences which can… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
The power which makes a man able to entertain a good impulse is the same as that which enables him to make… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons… — Rickie Lee Jones Copy Share Image
We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination.… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I think cinema is the memory and the imagination of the country. Take the memory and imagination out of an individual, and… — Philippe Falardeau Copy Share Image
I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The power of fantasy is that you can make people understand the deeper realities of our world in a way that they… — Tomi Adeyemi Copy Share Image
The people who ignite our imaginations in the next century will become the idea barons. Gray matter will be their real estate,… — Joey Reiman Copy Share Image
My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Capablanca did not apply himself to opening theory (in which he never therefore achieved much), but delved deeply into the study of… — Max Euwe Copy Share Image
Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating… — Buffy Sainte-Marie Copy Share Image
Genre fiction was looked at as a ghetto, but I wonder now if realist fiction, sealing itself off in the glum suburbs… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination.… — Richard Lugar Copy Share Image
Dwellers by the sea are generally superstitious; sailors always are. There is something in the illimitable expanse of sky and water that… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel… — Sam Shepard Copy Share Image