The range of derivatives contracts is limited only by the imagination of man (or sometimes, so it seems, madmen). Say you want… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Mystery is great, that's what art is and I think when you can leave your imagination to grow, it's good. I just… — Maria Brink Copy Share Image
When we read a literary work (or, in some instances, listen to music) our imagination is stimulated, we feel various emotions, and… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
There's a different experience when you're reading a book rather than when you're seeing something on screen. When you're seeing a movie… — Holland Taylor Copy Share Image
Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Imagination consists in expelling from reality many incomplete persons, making use of the magical and subversive powers of desire, to obtain their… — René Char Copy Share Image
I'm used to music as a tool, taking the various elements and then making something completely new out of them. And writing… — Ry Cooder Copy Share Image
Once you realize that it is impossible to capture the character of the various manifestations of nature by pictorial means, and that… — Frantisek Kupka Copy Share Image
“We all say we want our kids to be happy, only happy, and healthy, but we don't want that. We want them… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
Avoid head trash. Don't be a garbage can for anything that does not feed your intellect, stimulate your imagination, or make you… — Les Brown Copy Share Image
“Joey was lying by the stream one afternoon after a hard day. He had been in trouble at school because he had… — Ellen J. Lewinberg Copy Share Image
I think it's deeply important for us to know, especially when we come from the outside, how "ordinary people" think and feel… — Jon Lee Anderson Copy Share Image
Inwardness is the characteristic feature of the vegetable rather than the animal approach to existence. The animals move, migrate and swarm, while… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We have come to think that duty should come first. I disagree. Duty should be a by-product. Writing, the creative effort, the… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
Wow," I said, since it was all I could think of to say. "Wow. That's some outfit." When you've got a big… — Charlaine Harris Copy Share Image
When I perform on stage I do achieve quite a variety of ways of singing. I was interested in trying to replicate… — Planningtorock Copy Share Image
It is certainly true in the United States that there is an uneasiness about certain aspects of science, particularly evolution, because it… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and… — Lajos Egri Copy Share Image
“I don’t care what your excuse is, I don’t care what you think God told you to do, if you are in… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
“Imagine: inside, in the nerves, in the head—that is, these nerves are there in the brain ... (damn them!) there are sort… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
“SIR,—Although I sent the following narrative to an Edinburgh newspaper, with the editor of which I was well acquainted; yet he refused… — John William Polidori Copy Share Image
As little boys, my brother and I used to spend hours with my grandmother, asking her about the details of how she… — Bryce Dessner Copy Share Image
In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
My bad head cannot adjust itself to the way things are… If I want to depict spring, it has to be in… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I was taught to lie at a young age. . . . I think that [A PARK IN OUR HOUSE] describes what… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I get irritated with the world. I get irritated with politicians. I get very irritated with governments and with corporations, but in… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
Don't get me wrong, God Bless the farmers and cowboys. It just wasn't the life I wanted. When writing stories of other… — Tom Johnson Copy Share Image
In our modern society the image and mythic process has been taken over by corporations that directly control advertising and, indirectly, the… — Robert Lawlor Copy Share Image
There's this long history of colonialism and the colonial gaze when applied to matters related to China. So a lot of conceptions… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in… — William Blake Copy Share Image
I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently… — Pete Rozelle Copy Share Image
What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and… — Ben Okri Copy Share Image
It is the political task of the social scientist — as of any liberal educator — continually to translate personal troubles into… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“And suddenly it came to him. That Strawberry Fields garden he'd come from, and the Freedom Tower he'd been thinking of: taken… — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
“The disease of the hypochondriac consists in this: that certain bodily sensations do not so much indicate a really existing disease in… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“There's an apt expression: 'If you don't live in your body, where are you going to live?' But many of us don't.… — Bill Connington Copy Share Image
Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals they inhabit time. This means… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The imagination is also sometimes commended for offering us in vicarious form experiences which we are unable to enjoy at first hand.… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
![“I was taught to lie at a young age. . . . I think that [A PARK IN OUR HOUSE] describes what people make out of their reality in a totalitarian system like Castro's. They take flight and move into the imagination in order to transcend their immediate reality. I had to write this play. It helped me…” quote by Nilo Cruz](https://sms4smile.com/q/i/a26/nilo-cruz-36320_age_i-was-taught-to-lie-at-a-young-age-i-thi_3050601.jpg)
