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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
I'm essentially the result of other people's imagination. And that's fine. Because of other people's imagination, I've played parts I would never… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Ginny came in to visit while you were unconscious", he said, after a long pause, and Harry's imagination zoomed into overdrive, rapidly… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Let's be clear - for people like me, who are obsessed with story and for whom words are their medium, writing is… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have always conjoin'd together, and which in… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“I am going to create what happened to me. Only because living isn't tellable. Living isn't livable. I shall have to create… — Clarice Lispector Copy Share Image
Progress comes by experiment, and this from ennui that leads to voyages, wars, revolutions, and plainly to change in the arts of… — Edmund Clarence Stedman Copy Share Image
It is not too much to say that next after the passion to learn there is no quality so indispensable to the… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
[T]hese last few days where I've moped around damn near depressed for real, because of people who do not exist. Not really.… — Laurell K. Hamilton Copy Share Image
...for those whose favorite season is autumn with its days of cloudless sky, of spacious and clear, far-flung panoramas - those who… — Charlton Ogburn Copy Share Image
“His so-fucking-vivid imagination rarely gave him the horrors, but when it did, God help him. God help him once it was warmed… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He wanted Jordan so badly, his fantasies consumed him. Whenever he reached out to touch something, paper, the phone, his steering wheel,… — Matthew Haldeman-Time Copy Share Image
“Write your script with the most adventurous characters imaginable. Tell others, get out your comfort zone, don’t worry about what they may… — Joseph S. Spence Sr Copy Share Image
The greatest crisis of our lives is neither economic, intellectual, nor even what we usually call religious. It is a crisis of… — Marc Gafni Copy Share Image
'Fright Night' I can just about deal with. Because the original is such a 1980s extravaganza. Which is a good thing. Obviously.… — Imogen Poots Copy Share Image
A spider conducts operations that resemble those of a weaver, and a bee puts to shame many an architect in the construction… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
The bait is the means to get the fish where you want it, catch the fish and you forget the bait. The… — Zhuangzi Copy Share Image
Brazil obviously connotes something in my mind to do with desire, sexuality and freedom. In fantasy, in mythology, Rio is the iconography… — Francis Levy Copy Share Image
Great abilites are not requisitefor an Historian; for in historical composition, all thegreatest powers of the humanmind are quiescent. He has facts… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction...All I'm writing is just what I… — Jimi Hendrix Copy Share Image
“I would rather never make a penny on book sales and know that many had derived some fair pleasure from my writing,… — Eric Diehl Copy Share Image
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