Cherie, did the table do something I did not see or were you just attempting to teach it a lesson?" "I was… — Alexandra Ivy Copy Share Image
One might point to the great illumination that has resulted from Freud's analysis of the abracadabra of our dreams. No one can… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
You cannot build a cultural identity without the images and sounds of your culture. Most countries in the third world - poor… — Rithy Panh Copy Share Image
Reading is a gymnasium for the imagination where people can work out, get ready for the shocks of existence. [...] For me,… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
A lack of street footballers dulls the imagination, dulls that natural thinking outside the box. You need that on the street when… — Sol Campbell Copy Share Image
New product and new types of service are generated, not by asking the consumer, but by knowledge, imagination, innovation, risk, trial and… — W. Edwards Deming Copy Share Image
“Possibly there are few imaginative writers who have not a leaning, secret or avowed, to the occult. The creative gift is in… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
A puppet, for example, is just a piece of wood, a couple of rivets, but put them together, and if you know… — Robert Lepage Copy Share Image
The general ideas which are expressed in sketches, correspond very well to the art often used in poetry... every reader making out… — Joshua Reynolds Copy Share Image
I always ask the booksellers to look at me and recommend a book; 9 out of 10, they get it right; it’s… — Ruby Wax Copy Share Image
I think we have to stand up against what is unacceptable, and to push the boundaries and reclaim a more humane way… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
[The imagination] . . . inspires an audacious mental habit. We are as elastic as the gas of gunpowder, and . .… — Marsilio Ficino Copy Share Image
Our imagination is larger than the world around us; we go beyond our limits. This used to be called 'witchcraft,' but fortunately… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I have devoted myself to architecture as a sublime act of poetic imagination. Consequently, I am only a symbol for all those… — Luis Barragan Copy Share Image
Neoliberalism eats its own children. Disposability is central to how neoliberalism functions. I would not like to romanticize that, though, by suggesting… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image
“Fantasy, though, is a literature of things beyond explanation. It calls us back to childhood, either the childhood of our species, before… — Roger Bellini Copy Share Image
Our generation grew up with the Review as a fact of life. It was America’s literary magazine. To our minds, it still… — Lorin Stein Copy Share Image
Anything you can imagine is yours to be or do or have. As you ask yourself why you want to have it,… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant,' it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious… — Eric Alterman Copy Share Image
These short stories establish Sontag's originality . . . her unique vision, her success with experiments in the form . . .… — Doris Grumbach Copy Share Image
Novels are routinely denigrated when characters are not found to be likable. Is Raskolnikov likable? Is King Lear? The plethora of such… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
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The history of our times calls to mind those Walt Disney characters who rush madly over the edge of a cliff without… — Raoul Vaneigem Copy Share Image
The principle of science, the definition, almost, is the following: The test of all knowledge is experiment. Experiment is the sole judge… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and lofty majesty, let him turn his gaze away from the… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
If you are to do justice to [the great roles], you must fly up to them - rather than dragging them down… — Harold Guskin Copy Share Image
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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
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
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
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
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“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
It is the night-black Massachusetts legendry which packs the really macabre "kick". Here is material for a really profound study in group-neuroticism;… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
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If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our… — Daniel Tammet Copy Share Image
“Ha-ha!' the fox laughed. '*Just* stories, you say, as if stories mean nothing? Stories are the stuff that sticks the world together.… — C. Alexander London Copy Share Image
As a child I used to watch clouds, and in them, see faces, castles, animals, dragons, and giants. It was a world… — Barry B. Longyear Copy Share Image
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