Giese was an unemotional man, but then in the study of Solaris emotion is a hindrance to the explorer. Imagination and premature… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In general, when the imagination is at all noble, it is irresistible, and therefore those who can at all resist it ought… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
“Women are creatures that accomplishes staggering tasks. They seek perfection, accommodation, and completion in their tasks. This is why it is valid… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
Most cocktails containing liquor are made today with gin and ingenuity. In brief, take an ample supply of the former and use… — Irma S. Rombauer Copy Share Image
It is in dreams that I have known the real clutch of stark, hideous, maddening, paralysing fear. My infant nightmares were classics,… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I love my work. What's more fun than playing with imagination? I also believe storytelling is the most powerful way people communicate… — Lucy Jane Bledsoe Copy Share Image
Words in prose ought to express the intended meaning; if they attract attention to themselves, it is a fault; in the very… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The fact that books today are mostly a string of words makes it easier to forget the text. With the impact of… — Joshua Foer Copy Share Image
“People today are used to seeing not only the incredible but the impossible as well, all provided by the mega-pixel. We witness… — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
I was much more into romance as a teenager and it's been a kind of new discovery for me to learn about… — Olivia Wilde Copy Share Image
Some people read an interesting or provocative newspaper article, and that's the end of that. A writer reads such an article, and… — Elizabeth Berg Copy Share Image
“For when one has set his heart upon an idea—which is, perhaps, nothing but the creation of his own fancy, as unsubstantial… — G.H. Pember Copy Share Image
I have observed dreams and visions very carefully, and am now certain that the imagination has some way of lighting on the… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“And then he lifted his eyes from the chair to his bed. If this was his imagination, his imagination was glorious. Margaret… — Courtney Milan Copy Share Image
There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
The work I have done has, already, been adequately rewarded and recognized. Imagination reaches out repeatedly trying to achieve some higher level… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“Since the fanciful vision of the future that had flitted through her imagination at their first meeting she had hardly ever thought… — Edith Wharton Copy Share Image
For novelists, the imagination is everything. The trick is to guide one's imagination using research. I love using old maps. When I… — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Thank you, Christopher Robin. You're the only one who seems to understand about tails. They don't think — that's what's the matter… — A.A. Milne Copy Share Image
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Everyday, in the afternoon, When the sun and the clouds are in equipoise, I look up, with shrunken eyes and shadowed forehead,… — Ranjani Ramachandran Copy Share Image
“The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“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
Humankind is able to create new conditions, a new reality. We are not fated to swim forever among the realities that are… — Pramoedya Ananta Toer Copy Share Image
Fishes do not roar; they cannot express any sound of suffering; and therefore the angler chooses to think they do not suffer,… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
I want to suggest to you that the day of the artists has come. That there are things about symbols and the… — Graham Cray Copy Share Image
“I understand that through books one is able to journey. One is able to smell and taste and go into different worlds… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
There is no thing that with a twist of the imagination cannot be something else. Porpoises risen in a green sea, the… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
Our thoughts are always elsewhere; we are stayed and supported by the hope for a better life, or by the hope that… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Magic is a kind of energy. It is given shape by human thoughts and emotions, by imagination. Thoughts define that shape—and words… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
We may discover resources on the moon or Mars that will boggle the imagination, that will test our limits to dream. And… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Don't think that the lack of leaders and of a party ideological line means anarchy, if by anarchy you mean chaos, bedlam,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“In the beginning was the word and the word was love and love was imagination. When love takes us through the sun-dappled… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Iconography becomes even more revealing when processes or concepts, rather than objects, must be depicted for the constraint of a definite "thing"… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The necessary unlikeness between the creator and the created holds within it the equally necessary likeness of the thing made to him… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
A lot of people ask, "What do you pull on in your own life from your character?" In all honesty, it's not… — Edward Norton Copy Share Image
These [Arab] youth who have been inspired by universal values are idealistic enough to imagine a magnificent future and, at the same… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
Now, I'm a failed political consultant. But sometimes fiction has a way of capturing people's imagination in a way that non-fiction doesn't.… — Joel C. Rosenberg Copy Share Image