Poets and beggars, musicians and prophets, warriors and scoundrels, all creatures of that unbridled reality, we have had to ask but little… — Eduardo Galeano Copy Share Image
Imagination doesn’t just mean making things up. It means thinking things through, solving them, or hoping to do so, and being just… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
“The books we love offer a sketch of a whole universe that we secretly inhabit, and in which we desire the other… — Pierre Bayard Copy Share Image
To be willing to live within the imagination is to commit oneself to the gathering together of the pieces that might begin… — Deena Metzger Copy Share Image
“Here undoubtedly lies the chief poetic energy:—in the force of imagination that pierces or exalts the solid fact, instead of floating among… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Growing up, I didn't have television. My dad would make up stories and tell me stories, so my imagination ran wild. When… — Shiloh Fernandez Copy Share Image
The region belonging to the pure intellect is straitened: the imagination labours to extend its territories, to give it room. She sweeps… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The din of politicians speechifying about the war, the faux moral posturing of opinion-makers who claim to speak in the name of… — Lawrence Kaplan Copy Share Image
I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct,… — Dawn French Copy Share Image
I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mohammedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family, and would accept of… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
Writers to some extent are childish, and it's at the childish level that one really engages with any experience. What really moves… — Christopher Koch Copy Share Image
The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a… — Shelby Foote Copy Share Image
Doc Brown had a feverous imagination. He was constantly coming up with new ways and solutions to various issues, and time travel… — Christopher Lloyd Copy Share Image
I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage,… — Howard Zinn Copy Share Image
At least since the Industrial Revolution, the world of design has been dominated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production. Assembly… — Neri Oxman Copy Share Image
Children are often envied for their supposed imaginations, but the truth is that adults imagine things far more than children do. Most… — Dara Horn Copy Share Image
I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
“He had never got so much back for himself from any pupil as he did from Miss Kronborg. From the first she… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
In the past we have always assumed that the external world around us has represented reality, however confusing or uncertain, and that… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“...a novel for me is a pretext, a way of starting up and sustaining a complicated and many layered inner exchange, a… — Sven Birkerts Copy Share Image
Yours is a race whose imagination is limited to its own small appetites. Greed, lust, envy - these are the motivating forces… — David Gemmell Copy Share Image
The imaginary is not formed in opposition to reality as its denial or compensation; it grows among signs, from book to book,… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
“So, you may ask, what is the use of studying the world of imagination where anything is possible and anything can be… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
The meditation I am talking about is not a meditation on something. If you light a lamp and remove all the objects… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Greatness and Truth can never be in danger from these murdering wretches. To perform one's duty, be it now, be it clean,… — Kenneth Patchen Copy Share Image
Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional… — Martin Filler Copy Share Image
“...And yet a knowledge is here that tenses the throat as for song: the inheritance of the ones, alive or once alive,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
He's a coach with extraordinary knowledge, who loves the club loads, he feels it, he has exceptional bravery and charisma, so for… — Joan Laporta Copy Share Image
“When the white arm rests upon the knee it is a triangle; now it is upright - a column; now a fountain,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“And with distance in time it is the same as with distance in place. The imagination has its atmosphere and its sunlight… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
When the poet's sentiments are overly visible, the audience may become uncomfortable. Japanese ritual is the opposite. By writing simply and only… — Naoto Fukasawa Copy Share Image
Our imagination so magnifies this present existence, by the power of continual reflection on it, and so attenuates eternity, by not thinking… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“Fantasy is like alcohol - too much is bad for you, a little bit makes the world a better place. Like an… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I see the world in ways that might be considered somewhat harsh and Darwinistic. At the same time mediated, as in Darwin,… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
One has but to observe a community of beavers at work in a stream to understand the loss in his sagacity, balance,… — James Thurber Copy Share Image
I believe our task is to develop a moral and aesthetic imagination deep enough and wide enough to encompass the contradictions of… — Richard Tarnas Copy Share Image
“To inquire into what God has made is the main function of the imagination. It is aroused by facts, is nourished by… — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
The absence of fossil evidence for intermediary stages between major transitions in organic design, indeed our inability, even in our imagination, to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I try to think of acting in terms of thinking and doing. People think of it as, "Oh, let's get inside this… — Tobin Bell Copy Share Image
