Would I if I could by pushing a button would I kill five thousand Chinamen if I could save my brother from… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
“Sometimes the less we know about what will happen in a work of fiction, the better off we are. Because the more… — Dermot Bolger Copy Share Image
No skill, no special aptitude, no vividness of imagination or precision of thinking would go unrecognized because the child who possessed it… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
Being in grief, it turns out, is not unlike being in love. In both states, the imagination's entirely occupied with one person.… — Mark Doty Copy Share Image
The mere formulation of a problem is far more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Music is very transporting. I'll hear a song for the first time and I rarely listen to the lyrics. I picture that… — Josh McDermitt Copy Share Image
I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Literature works from mind to mind and is more progenitive. It is at once more universal and more poignantly particular. If it… — J.R.R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Our spiritual life is a life in which we wait, actively present to the moment, expecting that new things will happen to… — Henri Nouwen Copy Share Image
Haven't you noticed that we women daydream infinitely less than you men? We can't anticipate pleasure in our imagination or keep suffering… — Jens Peter Jacobsen Copy Share Image
“The magic in writing is not so much using your imagination as it is allowing the reader to uses theirs. When I… — Carl Henegan Copy Share Image
Mr Selfridge' is a lot more accessible than shows like 'Downton.' Everyone knows the store, but not everyone knows the story. Having… — Zoe Tapper Copy Share Image
I think humans have always felt watched back by whatever is out there flickering in the distance. What excites me is what… — Tracy K. Smith Copy Share Image
A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Some Iraqi writers are more daring today and have excellent imaginations and their material is rich in human experience. But the Arab… — Hassan Blasim Copy Share Image
“The boy thought, How powerful a story is, and how by a kind of magic it compels the imagination; there was nothing… — Glenway Wescott Copy Share Image
Everything can happen, everything is possible and probable. Time and place do not exist; on a significant bases of reality, the imagination… — August Strindberg Copy Share Image
“There is an implicit recognition here that important things in life are not always immediately visible, and can't always be named, or… — Shaun Tan Copy Share Image
“Better minds have said it before, but I don’t mind repeating it less well again and again: Reading, like the natural world,… — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
“His (Samuel Coleridge) dark senses were constantly in play, the frustration of them bringing illness. Weather and organic nature combined in a… — Peter Redgrove Copy Share Image
“I know this about imagination: It needs a place to go. If I don't work at my cards and images and letterpress,… — Patti Callahan Henry Copy Share Image
My parents had come from Mexico, a short road in my imagination. I felt myself as coming from a caramelized planet, an… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
“Being ill when you are a child or growing up is such an enchanted interlude! The outside world, the world of free… — Bernhard Schlink Copy Share Image
“He had been violently confused by her real presence in the opposite inaccessible corner. For months he had been possessed by the… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
“[The little black boy] had seen Tarzan bring down a buck, just as Numa, the lion, might have done... Tibo had shuddered… — Edgar Rice Burroughs Copy Share Image
Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Memory and the imagination are almost identical. It's the same place in the brain and the same thing is happening. When you… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
Supernatural hasn't spent a lot of time on relationship stories, and this is a really nice mechanism to do that without imposing… — Jeremy Carver Copy Share Image
Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full… — Francis Cabot Copy Share Image
Why be narrow-minded, why cut ourselves off from any of these rich heritages when… we have the freedom to make the most… — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
There is at the back of every artist’s mind something like a pattern and a type of architecture. The original quality in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Well, to me, the tensile strength and the very definition of an artist is something that I would place at the top… — Van Dyke Parks Copy Share Image
I believe in the invisible. I do not believe in the definitive reality of things around us. For me, reality is the… — Duane Michals Copy Share Image
Hearing him speak is so fun, reassuring I dare say. You can say all you like about Sihanouk: that he's an atrocious… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“Eureka" can be an answer to a question we have never asked. It can be the articulation of a sudden and unforeseen… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Emulation is grief arising from seeing one's self, exceeded or excelled by his concurrent, together with hope to equal or exceed him… — Thomas Hobbes Copy Share Image
I am a little girl lost in the fantasy of imagination; never wanting to grow up; loving everyone. I am a teenager… — Rachel C Copy Share Image
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