I want to be remembered as an imaginer, someone who used his imagination as a way to journey beyond the limits of… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
The illusion of control has to be there, but mostly I'm following characters and the consequences of their own decisions, because a… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
I was very withdrawn and definitely played with dolls well into eighth grade. But I was the oldest of nine, and that… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
My fictional worlds were those of a fabulist, of an intellectual fantasist. I was the lawgiver, and the countries and inhabitants of… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
You can say the president's private life takes up so much of his time that he doesn't focus on his job, so… — Tony Goldwyn Copy Share Image
I grew up going to the theater. That was one of the nice things my mom did was she took us to… — David Small Copy Share Image
That the sum of a man's life was not where he wound up but in the details that brought him there. That… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
I don't really know what Americans are like. I've no idea. I know a few things about them. In my imagination, they… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and… — Sam Raimi Copy Share Image
I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
I'm asked all the time, "Doesn't it feel great to finish the novel?" And the answer to that is, "No." It's sort… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
Q: What’s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
Often, very often, I am alone. My studio in Amsterdam, (Beckmann lived in the center of Amsterdam during World War 2.) an… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Chris [ Nolan] and I have a strange way of working from the non-movie process, where after all these conversations and reading… — Christopher Nolan Copy Share Image
I am not even six feet tall. Yet I am praying to the Absolute Supreme to reach His infinite Height, which is… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I never start with what lots of people think of as a subject or a theme. They're school words, not art words.… — Tim Winton Copy Share Image
It's no good. I've been trying to sleep for the last half-hour, and I can't. Writing here is a sort of drug.… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
I remember when I was a kid, when I just used to love listening to something again and again and over and… — Cat Stevens Copy Share Image
[Math is] not at all like science. There's no experiment I can do with test tubes and equipment and whatnot that will… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
[My novel] took up the sweetest part of my mind and the rarest part of my imagination; it was like being in… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
![“How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I had perused, and pictured in my imagination a big wheel run by the Falls. I told my uncle that I would go to America and carry out this scheme. Thirty years later I saw my…” quote by Nikola Tesla](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/5e1/nikola-tesla-1383_america_how-extraordinary-was-my-life-an-inciden_276209.jpg)
![“Chris [ Nolan] and I have a strange way of working from the non-movie process, where after all these conversations and reading the script and more conversations, Chris went out and shot the films and the first thing he did, he wouldn't show it to me until I had written the music - not out of…” quote by Christopher Nolan](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/4fd/christopher-nolan-2670_cinema_chris-nolan-and-i-have-a-strange-way-of_2310909.jpg)
![“[Math is] not at all like science. There's no experiment I can do with test tubes and equipment and whatnot that will tell me the truth about a figment of my imagination. The only way to get at the truth about our imaginations is to use our imaginations...” quote by Paul Lockhart](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/3e0/paul-lockhart-18353_can-do_math-is-not-at-all-like-science-there-s_140084.jpg)
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