I first saw Dead Man in high school, and it changed everything. That movie was like a memory to me - I… — Willis Earl Beal Copy Share Image
I have a lot of good people in my actual life, but I will say that it's a strange time that we… — Katie Featherston Copy Share Image
That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
dreams must not take the place of actual life, nor constitute themselves a cowardly escape from it, but become rather a sanctuary… — Maude Meagher Copy Share Image
You see I'm trying in all my stories to get the feeling of the actual life across, not just to depict life,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
Actual life was chaos, but there was something terribly logical in the imagination. It was the imagination that set remorse to dog… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“What is it about our expectations, plans, or ideas that hold such sway over us? It is as if we've written a… — Holly Sprink Copy Share Image
For me, storytelling is what I love to do and that's my life's work. Football is not my life's work. It's just… — Martellus Bennett Copy Share Image
“The decision as to whether to risk one’s actual life or to surrender the ideal self-conception is a decision about who one… — Robert Brandom Copy Share Image
Learning from our mistakes is critical for improving, but even I don't have patience for ranking my regrets. Regret is a negative… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
Pragmatism asks its usual question. "Grant an idea or belief to be true," it says, "what concrete difference will its being true… — William James Copy Share Image
My actual life is a fact, in view of which I have no occasion to congratulate myself; but for my faith and… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“To sit in Meditation is not the only method of practising Zazen. "We practise Dhyana in sitting, in standing, and in walking,"… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
Whatever brief delights it provides, mere strangeness in poetry and prose eventually leaves us cold, especially when we suspect the writer is… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Out of the attempt to harmonize our actual life with our aspirations, our experience with our faith, we make poetry, - or,… — Anna Brownell Jameson Copy Share Image
At a theoretical level, I think a naturalist approach to religion is just asking questions I'm not interested in. They're perfectly legitimate… — George Pattison Copy Share Image
“Eliot's understanding of poetic epistemology is a version of Bradley's theory, outlined in our second chapter, that knowing involves immediate, relational, and… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“When I arrived home from Boston, I realized there were no pictures on my mantel. I set down my suitcase and walked… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“An artistic image is one that ensures its own development, its historical viability. An image is a grain, a self-evolving retroactive organism.… — Andrei Tarkovsky Copy Share Image
Underneath the forms of fiction and poetry, you can bet your ass the ground comes from someone's actual life experience. — Lidia Yuknavitch Copy Share Image
I've managed to keep my career going in a way that suits me. I'll perform, and then I'll go home to my… — Debbie Gibson Copy Share Image
And Robert Lowell, of course - in his poems, we're not located in his actual life. We're located more in the externals,… — Mark Strand Copy Share Image
“Looking back on the past six months, Margaret realized the chaotic nature of our daily life, and its difference from the orderly… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
Poems offer us counter-knowledges. They let us see what is invisible to ordinary looking, and to find in overlooked corners the opulence… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
