“Seeing the world as it is, carrying the weight of its noise and its beauty, and still choosing to believe in something… — Steven Cuoco Copy Share Image
Nobody would know it to look at me, but the movies I liked as a kid were musicals - 'All That Jazz,'… — Juliette Lewis Copy Share Image
“When a Wanderess has been caged, or perched with her wings clipped, She lives like a Stoic, She lives most heroic, smiling… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is because Venice is both liquid and solid, both air and stone, that it somehow combines all the elements crucial… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast,… — Michael Leunig Copy Share Image
Imagination builds the image of the self, and thought then functions within its shadows. From this self-concept grows the conflict between what… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
What an enormous magnifier is tradition! How a thing grows in the human memory and in the human imagination, when love, worship,… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“People will say,"there's heaven and hell", and they take it so serious that they look so sorrowful with penitence. I would rather… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
“I didn't know the value of creation until I did it. Once I tasted imagination, I knew that I was trapped. I… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
“I read the stories I've been told in my own way and make a narrative of them. Narrative is a chain of… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
This highway leads to the shadowy tip of reality: you're on a through route to the land of the different, the bizarre,… — Rod Serling 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
I think as much as possible, an artist, if he has any kind of social or political concern, has to…expose as much… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
I think at the moment we did not even want to break the seal [on the inner chamber of the tomb of… — Howard Carter Copy Share Image
I've made movies that were adaptations and I've been kind of frustrated by the process because, you know that old axiom, 'It's… — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you… — Anna Deavere Smith Copy Share Image
The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons… — Robert Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
This pool is a triumph of imagination. That's how you win at life, Gin. You have to imagine your way through. Never… — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
“Anything you can think of, anything you can imagine- is real.. somewhere. We dream of such things, here on earth, never realizing… — Anya Allyn Copy Share Image
Imagination is a screen onto which the evil spirits can 'project' images, temptations presented as stimulating entertainments, offering us pleasurable rewards if… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“As I watch, the sky fills with clouds of snow feathers from every kind of bird there ever was and even some… — Kate Atkinson Copy Share Image
You see, this would be a death by the imagination. And though the imagination feeds on phantoms, it needs a premise in… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
Any media-brainwashed automaton can summon the insipid courage to peer into the horrifying abyss. But it takes a freaking genius with a… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
“...our imagination, like stars, Hint at something in the distance. I don't know where we will be But we will light up… — Eric Overby Copy Share Image
As we looked up in silence to those distant lights, we were reminded that it was a rare imagination which first taught… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The moon likes secrets," Meran said. "And secret things. She lets mysteries bleed into her shadows and leaves us to ask whether… — Charles de Lint Copy Share Image
Great fiction can often present moral messages with greater power and clarity than instructional writing - since literature, after all, penetrates not… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Adults are living increasingly as children: completely in their imaginations. Reading Harry Potter while every newspaper in the country goes out of… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The Christian should be the person who is alive, whose imagination absolutely boils, which moves, which produces something a bit different from… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
Except for its worst inner-city slums, America is not the primitive capitalist jungle of European imagination, where human beings slink away like… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
My fantasy is that I could wake up looking amazing, that I could be strong and stop the bully, but that everybody… — Patty Jenkins Copy Share Image
“I remember Peyton [Manning] called me as soon as I got out to Denver. He started the conversation by asking me, ‘When… — Vernon Davis Copy Share Image
Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced… — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
If you happen to capture my imagination for some reason and I decide to write about you and you don't like what… — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
I'm filled with admiration, delight, and gratitude at discovering James Lasdun's poems in A Jump Start. He has wit, speed, intelligence, a… — Anthony Hecht Copy Share Image
“Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I think my weakness as a writer is a limited imagination, and I think my strength is a talent for reflecting the… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
People said, ‘You must be mad, or on drugs,’ which I found a bit disappointing. What about imagination? It reflects our time… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image