The designation is useful and necessary and sometimes limiting but it is only limiting to people who think, for example, that African-American… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
Literature takes reality and human experience as its starting point, transforms it by means of the imagination, and sends readers back to… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image
Sin does not leap upon us fully armed. It steals in through a look, a swift, silent suggestion or imagination, but love… — Samuel Logan Brengle Copy Share Image
You are suffering from an ailment that affects ladies of romantic imaginations. Symptoms include fainting, weariness, loss of appetite, low spirits. While… — Diane Setterfield Copy Share Image
“We may see a Creature with forty-nine heads Who lives in the desolate snow, And whenever he catches a cold (which he… — Roald dahl Copy Share Image
You've always got to have an imagination in the game we're in but it explodes on this. You get to try the… — Ray Winstone Copy Share Image
The southern German has the imagination and emotionality to subscribe to a fanatic ideology, but he is ordinarily inhibited from excesses by… — Arthur Seyss-Inquart Copy Share Image
Philosophy is to be studied, not for the sake of any definite answers to its questions, since no definite answers can, as… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Think you cant change the world? Too late, you already have. It was changed for the better the minute you were born.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
I grew up in this room filled with musical instruments, but most importantly, I had a family who encouraged me to invest… — Jacob Collier Copy Share Image
We live in a country that sent people to the moon. This accomplishment, along with other bold leaps of faith, required political… — Nina Turner Copy Share Image
Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest creative thinkers of all time, strongly recommended the habit of meditation in the dark. He… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
Even though fixed in time, a photograph evokes as much feeling as that which comes from music or dance. Whatever the mode… — Ralph Gibson Copy Share Image
If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
The dynamic principle of fantasy is play, a characteristic also of the child, and as such it appears inconsistent with the principle… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
Would your reply possibly be this? Well, it all depends on what my tax rate will be on the gain you're saying… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
There must be hundreds of unsung heroes and heroines who first tasted strange things growing - and think of the man who… — Gladys Taber Copy Share Image
Yes, [Philadelphia is] horrible, but in a very interesting way. There were places there that had been allowed to decay, where there… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't think George Bush is a good president by any imagination, but when he said, 'If you're talking to Al-Quaeda, we… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
It's not only that I want to get things right when I'm composing but that my imagination often gets lost, and then… — George Benjamin Copy Share Image
“While parents are too occupied with teaching their children math and science, they totally neglect the importance of imagination which can take… — John Taskinsoy Copy Share Image
“from CHAOS? Trust the imagination. Peace is knowing without need for detailed explanation. Joy is openness to possibility. Sing your humming heart… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
I believe in previous lives and the Muse—and that books and music exist before they are written and that they are propelled… — Steven Pressfield Copy Share Image
The heart changes...but we learn of it only from reading or by imagination; for in reality its alteration, like that of certain… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
What would mathematics have amounted to without the imagination of its devotees-its giants and their followers? There never was a discovery made… — David Eugene Smith Copy Share Image
“If we cannot start up to the sky of our dreams with the bluebirds of ecstasy or soar along on the rhythm… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Isaac Watts, of course, is a hymn writer in the tradition of Congregationalism who lived in the seventeenth and early eighteenth century.… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
Doing voice work is more like recording music that people are going to listen to. You're creating an oral experience using whatever… — Nick Offerman Copy Share Image
For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“He wanted most of all the people of his own mind, people with whom he could really talk, people he could harangue… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
To shut your mind, heart, imagination to the sufferings of others is to begin slowly but inexorably to die. It is to… — John Austin Baker Copy Share Image
When James Bond presses the watch and the car explodes, the writer doesn't go into the science of it. One should leave… — Ravi Subramanian Copy Share Image
When I think of Camelot, I think of the castle in France where we film, but I think it's wrong to lock… — Colin Morgan Copy Share Image
“My favorite words in the world are these: “what” and “if” in conjunction. They question curiosities in simple form and function. “What”… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
People normally view my work as fantasy, which on some level is true, but I do think that my work is more… — Shahad Ameen Copy Share Image
I, Horus, son of Osiris, claim the throne of the heavens as my birthright!" he shouted."What was once mine shall be mine… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
There were [in Wilson] a lot of clues in it that you don't normally get, you know, normally you use your imagination… — Woody Harrelson Copy Share Image