If there's any sort of superpower we desperately need right now, it's this transcendental force that reminds us of union and connection.… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I've talked to a few writers who have had childhood illnesses. The sense of convalescence - the feeling that you're waiting to… — Evie Wyld Copy Share Image
Cyborg writing must not be about the Fall, the imagination of a once-upon-a-time wholeness before language, before writing, before Man. Cyborg writing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past ("en… — Umberto Eco 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
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
The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama ... The… — Dorothy L. Sayers 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
Worry is the product of feverish imagination working under the stimulus of desires... It is a necessary resultant of attachment to the… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
“The term entheogen proposes a radical inversion of customary attitudes towards religion as faith or as something concerned with an ultimate reality… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
…Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people: one who goes on thinking about the future, not bothering about the present at all. That… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Am I crazy?" she asked. "I feel like I am sometimes." "Maybe," he said, rubbing her forehead. "But don't worry about it.… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
I was driving down a familiar road one fall day when I almost drove off the road, the beauty was so intense.… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
I was reading C.S. Lewis with my mom, and she was pointing out that he was dead, and I'm like, 'What do… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Ethiopia always has a special place in my imagination and the prospect of visiting Ethiopia attracted me more strongly than a trip… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I am not against playfully imagining possible decivilized worlds. But for such imaginings to be truly playful and to have experimental potential,… — Wolfi Landstreicher Copy Share Image
“His games have a deeper meaning and fascination that adults can no longer fathom and require nothing more than three pebbles, or… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
When a poor disconsolated drooping creature is terrified from all enjoyment,--prays without ceasing 'till his imagination is heated,--fasts and mortifies and mopes,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“People say they want to read about life but that's not what they want at all. They want a version of life.… — Andersen Prunty Copy Share Image
A chief cause of unhappiness is what I call mental movies. Mental movies are a misuse of the imagination. You know how… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
“The ability to imagine is the largest part of what you call intelligence. You think the ability to imagine is merely a… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“Her mother said that three great powers kept the universe going. The first and the strongest was God. Each of the two… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
I always thought that the location of this film [Girl In The Train] was on the train and inside her imagination, and… — Erin Cressida Wilson Copy Share Image
“ Willard Gibbs is the type of the imagination at work in the world. His story is that of an opening up… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
The art of dharma practice requires commitment, technical accomplishment, and imagination. As with all arts, we will fail to realize its full… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as… — Uta Hagen Copy Share Image
In the sphere of natural investigation, as in poetry and painting, the delineation of that which appeals most strongly to the imagination,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
When I compare life to a dream I do not mean to denigrate it as some sort of meaningless fantasy. Life is… — Timothy Freke Copy Share Image
“You and me are real people, operating in a real world. We are not figments of each other’s imagination. I am the… — Jean-Paul Sartre Copy Share Image
To allow mystery, which is to say to yourself, 'There could be more...things we don't understand,' is not to damn knowledge…It is… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
Not only is hair a part of the body, but because it continues to grow for a time after death, it was… — Hyon Gyon Copy Share Image
All you have is the writer's imagination. You have a very limited time to take this imaginary person and bring the details… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
The key to overcoming adversity is to be ready to understand that you have enough, no matter what rug is pulled out… — Carmen Dell'Orefice Copy Share Image