A child who has never fantasized about having other…

“Unfortunately, it has come to my attention that the modern world is sorely lacking in imagination. And grown-ups are the biggest culprits of all.”

— Sarvenaz Tash

If it should turn out that the whole of physical reality can be described by a finite set of equations, I would be disappointed,…

— Freeman Dyson

Life is amazingly unpredictable; any 22-year-old who thinks they know where they will be in 10 years, much less in 30, is simply lacking imagination.

— Ben Bernanke

I was a boarding school product from the age of eight, and I hated it. Though I do have a theory that boarding school…

— Simon Mawer

He likes 'Confetti,' and he doesn't like 'Star Wars.' I think that just relieves us from the burden of ever having to take Mark…

— Robert Webb

The bourgeois thinkers of the eighteenth century thus turned Aristotle's formula on its head: satisfactions which the Greek philosopher had identified with leisure were…

— Alain de Botton

I believe that it is possible for one to praise, without concern, any man after he is dead since every reason and supervision for…

— Niccolo Machiavelli

Short fiction is the medium I love the most, because it requires that I bring everything I've learned about poetry - the concision, the…

— Ron Rash

There are moments when it's too quiet. Particularly late at night or early in the mornings. That's when you know there's something lacking in…

— Frank Sinatra

for the obvious reason that nature - unadulterated and unimproved by man - is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is…

— Edward Weston

What one thing does the world need most today-apart, that is, from the all-inclusive thing we call righteousness? Aren't you inclined to agree that…

— B. C. Forbes

I truly believe that one of the things that has been lacking in America is a spirit of repentance about the injustices of slavery…

— David Oyelowo

Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which…

— Maria Montessori

Who said we take drugs? we're just lacking fate

— Cath Chatto

I feel as much of a stud as... I can't come up with a metaphor. That's how lacking in studliness I am.

— Anonymous