My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people. — Patricia Highsmith Copy Share Image
Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin, And what it fears creates. — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races. — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
May you keep dreaming until the day you die. May imagination overtake memory. May you die young at a ripe old age. — Mark Batterson Copy Share Image
“The ambition of much of today's literary theory seems to be to find ways to read literature without imagination.” — Charles Simic Copy Share Image
“When an imaginative person gets into mental trouble, the line between seeming and being has a way of disappearing-” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I do sculpting sometimes when I have the time, and the first thing I sculpted was a bust of [Albert] Einstein. It… — Vandana Shiva Copy Share Image
Finding the medium that excites your imagination, that you love to play with and work in, is an important step to freeing… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Business leaders love the humanities because they know that to innovate you need more than rote knowledge. You need a trained imagination. — Martha C. Nussbaum Copy Share Image
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people. — Henry Williamson Copy Share Image
'Mind and matter,' said the lady in the wig, 'glide swift into the vortex if immensity. Howls the sublime, and softly sleeps… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Lonely children often have imaginary playmates but I was never lonely; rather, I was solitary, and wanted no company at all other… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
As one of four daughters, I grew up with an imaginary brother - wondering what it would have been like if one… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who… — Robert Creeley Copy Share Image
“You’re deluding yourself if you think you can know who I am or what I want from spying on me in my… — Chloe Jacobs Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I had performed by first autopsy that I realized that even the drabest human exteriors could contain the most… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
There are a lot of ways to talk about the life of a photograph. You can talk about the afterlife of a… — Sam Abell Copy Share Image
Why should you think that beauty, which is the most precious thing in the world, lies like a stone on the beach… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left… — Alejandro Jodorowsky Copy Share Image
The crazy thing about 'Hook' was it was one of the movies in town that everybody knew about. It was the biggest… — Dante Basco Copy Share Image
“He knew clearly enough that his imagination was growing traitor to him, and yet at times it seemed the ship he sailed… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
“As the video game designer and writer James Wallis puts it, “Human beings like stories. Our brains have a natural affinity not… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image