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
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
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
"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 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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
“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
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
My friend asked me recently, "Do you find it weird that you are now the property of other people's imaginations?" I hadn't… — Alycia Debnam Carey Copy Share Image
Reading fiction not only develops our imagination and creativity, it gives us the skills to be alone. It gives us the ability… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Perhaps we ought to feel with more imagination. As today the sky 70 degrees above zero with lines falling The way September… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
“Angie was a border crosser, a wetback, a worker in the immigrant sweatshop they call this city. On days like this I… — Dionne Brand Copy Share Image
Becoming a strategic thinker is about opening your mind to possibilities. It’s about seeing the bigger picture. It’s about understanding the various… — Max McKeown 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
I think there's such a fine line in a relationship. The role of imagination and privacy... how much space can you allow… — Katie Kitamura 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
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 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
I was headed for the fantastic lights. No doubt about it. Could it be that I was being deceived? Not likely. I… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
Losing is a habit. So is winning. Now lets work on permanently instilling winning habits into your life. Eliminate sabotaging habits and… — Darren Hardy Copy Share Image
Here's the thing about imagination. It gives you an opportunity to dream, no matter, you know, how outlandish my dreams were. Like,… — Dawn Staley Copy Share Image
Everything is an idea for something, something that touches the imagination, a fact that seems relevant or maybe just a statement I… — Elizabeth Spiers Copy Share Image
Many have no happier moments than those that they pass in solitude, abandoned to their own imagination, which sometimes puts sceptres in… — Lyndon B. Johnson Copy Share Image
If young people had love, hope, true education, the arts, full and meaningful lives they won’t join gangs. My life since living… — Luis J. Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image