You were the living image of the entire Platonic shadow show, an illusion that could fill my emptiness with marvellous, imaginary things… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
Of all the planets apart from Earth in our solar system, Mars is the most hospitable. Yeah. Right. Better keep my visit… — Greg Bear Copy Share Image
“Isn’t it easy to see that this line is imaginary, and that it, and the witness behind it, are the same old… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
The stars we are given. The constellations we make. That is to say, stars exist in the cosmos, but constellations are the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Men should continue to fight, but they should fight for things worth while, not for imaginary geographical lines, racial prejudices and private… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
All novels . . . are concerned with the enigma of the self. As soon as you create an imaginary being, a… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
You reduce illegal immigration by making it harder to get jobs here, or easier to get jobs south of the border. This… — Gail Collins Copy Share Image
Children, I mean, think of your own childhood, how important the bedtime story was. How important these imaginary experiences were for you.… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
One minute you're closer to someone than anyone in the whole world, next minute they need only to say the words 'time… — Helen Fielding Copy Share Image
In the native literatures of North America there aren't any novels. Instead, the major genre is myth. And myths are stories that… — Robert Bringhurst Copy Share Image
The point I wish plainly to bring before you on this occasion is the individuality of each human soul--our Protestant idea, the… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton Copy Share Image
All you have is the writer's imagination. You have a very limited time to take this imaginary person and bring the details… — John Malkovich Copy Share Image
There is no wrong suffering. There is imaginary, sham, feigned, simulated, pretended suffering. But the assertion that someone suffers for the right… — Dorothee Solle Copy Share Image
Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
“We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to live an… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
When war is waged, it is for the purpose of safeguarding or increasing one's capacity to make war. International politics are wholly… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Pi is not merely the ubiquitous factor in high school geometry problems; it is stitched across the whole tapestry of mathematics, not… — Robert Kanigel Copy Share Image
Suppose you could be hooked up to a hypothetical 'experience machine' that, for the rest of your life, would stimulate your brain… — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
I am glad to have found a readership, but one can’t write only what is likely to sell. A writer is not… — Tahar Ben Jelloun Copy Share Image
The knowledge that mankind needs is not the way or principle which has an absolute existence, but the particular truths for here… — Hu Shih Copy Share Image
The proposition of an established classification of states as slave states and free states, as insisted on by some, and into northern… — William H. Seward Copy Share Image
Most religion-mongers have bated their paradises with a bit of toasted cheese. They have tempted the body with large promises of possessions… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
If there's any kind of morality, for me, it's about reality; what is reality? I have a hard time distinguishing what is… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Any guy, even imaginary, would just feel like second best. Second best to what? I don't even have an image of the… — Tabitha Suzuma Copy Share Image
I'd love to write some porn, but I don't know if I have the right engines. When I was a young man… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
As is known, it is in the realm of experience inaugurated by psychoanalysis that we may grasp along what imaginary lines the… — Jacques Lacan Copy Share Image
“Most of us are used to thinking that “imaginary” is the opposite of “real.” That is, when we imagine things, we are… — Linda Bender Copy Share Image
Don't you ever touch my car again," Santangelo says with the same fury he had on his face when Jonah Griggs made… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it… — Lin Yutang Copy Share Image
Using the device of an imaginary world allows me in some strange way to go to the central issues - it's one… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
I write simply because I hear voices of people in my head who won't give me peace until I convey their stories… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
I wasn't a very outgoing child. I read a lot of books and the characters in each of the books became like… — A Fine Frenzy Copy Share Image
And I do pay a lot of attention to how things feel underneath my feet. It's a way of transporting yourself somewhere… — Evie Wyld Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to… — John Green Copy Share Image
I like capturing stuff that is disappearing - that’s the point of photography. What I am photographing is an imaginary place that… — Tim Walker Copy Share Image
Don't wallow in brainstorming. Time spent fiddling with a business plan or filling up whiteboards with ideas is time that you could… — Naveen Jain Copy Share Image
The imagination is the medium of appreciation in every field. The engagement of the imagination is the only thing that makes any… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
[W]e must stop trying to protect our planet from every imaginable, exaggerated or imaginary risk. And we must stop trying to protect… — Niger Innis Copy Share Image
That's what's so great about my job. I get paid to do what got me in trouble in grade school space out… — Jonathan Kellerman Copy Share Image
Literature takes reality and human experience as its starting point, transforms it by means of the imagination, and sends readers back to… — Leland Ryken Copy Share Image