“I am an explorer,' she whispered, 'setting courageously off into the wild unknown.' It was not a daydream she'd ever had before,… — Marissa Meyer Copy Share Image
It was over in a blink of an eye, that moment when aviation stirred the modern imagination. Aviation was transformed from recklessness… — George Will Copy Share Image
Now, we are agreed, I and my destinies. The total world, Above, below, whate'er is seen or known, And all that men,… — Hartley Coleridge Copy Share Image
What are the lessons learned? Well, I think number one is curiosity. It's the most powerful thing you own. Imagination is a… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
“Life when one first arrives is a continual mortification as one's romantic illusions are successively shattered and the musical treasure-house of one's… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
“Words are little houses, each with its cellar and garret. Common-sense lives on the ground floor, always ready to engage in "foreign… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Rather than pointing fingers or assigning blame, let’s use this occasion to expand our moral imaginations, to listen to each other more… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. [They are the two sides of a coin, so learning how to manage… — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
Take a bunch of little kids to the beach and they all make art. Adults are too stupid to call it art,… — Buffy Sainte-Marie 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
“Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination. Every time you give them a new metaphor, a mustard seed,… — Christopher Moore Copy Share Image
“To me, the best, if not the only function of imaginative writing, is to lead the human imagination outward, to take it… — Clark Ashton Smith 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
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
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
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
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
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
“Finally, we entered Chetaube County, my imaginary birthplace, where the names of the little winding roads and minuscule mountain communities never failed… — Sol Luckman 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
Imagination is a pretty powerful thing, and when you're in the moment and you're riding a train and you're asked to look… — Chris Pine Copy Share Image
You must watch the pictures that you paint with your imagination. Your environment and the conditions of your life at any given… — Seth 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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
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
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
![“Fear cannot be without hope nor hope without fear. [They are the two sides of a coin, so learning how to manage fear through learning, understanding, rationality, controlled imagination, preparation, mental focus (including distraction) and a gratitude attitude is very helpful.]” quote by Baruch Spinoza](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/d90/baruch-spinoza-1338_anticipation_fear-cannot-be-without-hope-nor-hope-wit_304096.jpg)
