If we do not learn to eliminate waste and to be more productive and more efficient in the ways we use energy,… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Ô, the wine of a woman from heaven is sent, more perfect than all that a man can invent. When she came… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Self-reliance - that's a dirty word to Democrats. They want people to believe that self-reliance means you don't do anything with anybody.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
“so that it isn't upsetting to anybody. It's something we've always known about fairy tales – they talk about incest, the Oedipus… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
“Looking on the bright side, let us remind ourselves of what has happened in the wake of earlier demystifications. We find no… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Realization of this need means adults must awaken to the urgency of the young people's unrest-in other words there must be created… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
“To love at a distance and without hope; never to possess; to dream chastely of pale charms and impossible kisses extinguished on… — Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
“Now that we've come up with all the obvious answers to our problem, it's time to come up with some truly ridiculous… — Carol Hughes Copy Share Image
An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The prevalence of the GVP (grilled vegetable plate) as the sole vegetarian option at many restaurants is offensive for a whole host… — Cord Jefferson Copy Share Image
I see a strategy for fracturing humanity well in play: just keep people separated and let them reinforce invented boundaries in their… — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
"Le génie n'est qu'une longue patience", a dit Buffon. Cela est bien incomplet. Le génie, c'est l'impatience dans les idées et la… — Leo Errera Copy Share Image
I want to talk with people who care about things that matter that will make a life changing difference. True or true?… — Mark Victor Hansen Copy Share Image
“Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad; but chess-players do. Mathematicians go… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent.… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
On the mainland, a rain was falling. The famous Seattle rain. The thin, gray rain that toadstools love. The persistent rain that… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worship God.' If that… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
The images of reality and those of our imagination, together with music and books, populated our lives so intensely that, when the… — Alice Rohrwacher Copy Share Image
“The imagination circuit is taught to respond to the most minimal of cues. A book is an arrangement of 26 phonetic symbols,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Behind every door in London there are stories, behind every one ghosts. The greatest writers in the history of the written word… — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
It's what all actors try to do, really, to just preserve the child inside them because their imagination is quite available. I… — Bertie Carvel Copy Share Image
I think of mythology as a function of biology; the energies of the body are the energies that move the imagination. These… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“There are always messages, even enigmas to be searched, mysteries to be solved in all of my books. I like to puzzle… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, where study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants -- doing nothing… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Certainly, for younger guys, Superman is this mythological character that they've thought about and explored in their imaginations... But one thing I… — Henry Cavill Copy Share Image
“To express this increasingly complex subject as succinctly as possible, the ancestors of our species developed the brain power to connect with… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests… — Drew Gilpin Faust Copy Share Image
Yet magic is no more than the art of employing consciously invisible means to produce visible effects. Will, love and imagination are… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
On the other hand, although I have a regular work schedule, I take time to go for long walks on the beach… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
I don't know enough about the lower classes to write about them. I don't feel with them, and that could be regarded… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
“Whereas some dwell on the bright side of life, enjoying an exciting spectrum of contingencies, and get all the breaks, others live… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Nothing is more practical than finding God, that is, than falling in love in a quite absolute, final way…What you are in… — Pedro Arrupe Copy Share Image
Bruno opened his eyes in wonder at the things he saw. In his imagination he had tough that all the huts were… — John Boyne Copy Share Image
I think I get in trouble sometimes, especially when it's like I need to be easier on [my] kids because maybe I'm… — Timothy Simons Copy Share Image
The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern'… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image