Fantasy is like jam. . . . You have to spread it on a solid piece of bread. If not, it remains… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Deprived of human intercourse, I inevitably overvalue the imagination and expect it to make the mundane glow with an aura of self-transcendence.” — J.M. Coetzee Copy Share Image
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
... some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty… — George Washington Copy Share Image
As an actor, whether I'm playing Othello on stage or David Estes on 'Homeland,' that ability to give into your imagination is… — David Harewood Copy Share Image
The reason we don't often confront the larger question of whether or not war is survivable is because of a failure of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
People said, ‘You must be mad, or on drugs,’ which I found a bit disappointing. What about imagination? It reflects our time… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
The imagination acquires by custom a certain involuntary, unconscious power of observation and comparison, correcting its own mistakes, and arriving at precision… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Another argument of hope may be drawn from this-that some of the inventions already known are such as before they were discovered… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
I think movies are expressions of our imagination; they are expressions of our conscious and of our subconscious. I think that movies… — Olivier Assayas Copy Share Image
...compartmentalization of occupations and interests bring about a separation of that mode of activity commonly called 'practice' from insight; of imagination from… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“You know, Daddy, I think that the most necessary quality for any person to have imagination. It makes people able to put… — Jean Webster Copy Share Image
That is the saddest part when you lose someone you love - that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, Is this… — Amy Tan Copy Share Image
Achieving goals is a creative process. The first step in the creation of your primary goal takes place in your conscious mind.… — Bob Proctor Copy Share Image
“Perception requires imagination because the data people encounter in their lives are never complete and always equivocal. For example, most people consider… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
“What they failed to realize is that we all should have a sense of imagination. My failures made me dream harder because… — Charlena Jackson Copy Share Image
My survival was up to me. I had nothing and I had no one. What I did have, I told myself, was… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
“You don't know love when you see it. You've tricked something out with your imagination that you think love, and you expect… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Always remember: The thieves of Peace are thieves in an empty house because only imagination suffers. You are Peace, that which remains… — H. W. L. Poonja Copy Share Image
Who dispenses reputation? Who makes us respect and revere persons, works, laws, the great? Who but this faculty of imagination? All the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I thought I could make out Jamie's Highland screech, but that was likely imagination; they all sounded equally demented. — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
I know its easy to imagine, but it's easier to just do. See if you cant do what you imagine, then what's… — Kid Cudi Copy Share Image
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science. — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the… — Richard Hofstadter Copy Share Image
Sentiment and nostalgia are fatal for fiction. One must go into the territory of the imagination with sure feet, hot fainting with… — Lynn Freed Copy Share Image
I used to be too subjective, and I was always tempted to find my inner self in the exterior and dissipate my… — Oskar Kokoschka Copy Share Image
I feel that the only thing that really matters in art and life is to go against the tidal wave of literalism… — David Salle Copy Share Image
We need more imagination, more innovation and more public financing for projects and programmes that harness the positive energy of young men. — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
“But in exchange for what our imagination leads us to expect and we give ourselves so much futile trouble trying to find,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
If I know Hinduism at all, it is essentially inclusive and ever-growing, ever-responsive. It gives the freest scope for imagination, speculation and… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I have been doodling with ink and watercolor on paper all my life. It's my way of stirring up my imagination to… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
You can offer your vibration on purpose. That's what visualization is. That's what imagination is: projecting thought energy on purpose. — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
I loved the world of Oz. I guess as a young man, I was just drawn to fantasy worlds. I liked being… — James Franco Copy Share Image
The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn… — Barry S. Strauss Copy Share Image
“What do you do when your head - your imagination is filled with tales to last a hundred lifetimes? You focus on… — Storm Princeholm Copy Share Image
It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Fantasy plunders the well of our deepest selves for existent truth instead of creating new truths out of the illusory fabric of… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“The truth is that James, like many other great writers and artists, had chosen his own loyalties and nationality. His true country,… — Azar Nafisi 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
