The world to me was a secret, which I desired to discover; to her it was a vacancy, which she sought to… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
If history were a photograph of the past it would be flat and uninspiring. Happily, it is a painting; and, like all… — Allan Nevins Copy Share Image
Democracy is the most demanding of all forms of government in terms of the energy, imagination, and public spirit required of the… — George C. Marshall Copy Share Image
We live and move and think; but we are not the creators of our own origin and existence. We are not the… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of… — Francisco Goya Copy Share Image
But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find… — Diana Krall Copy Share Image
The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own… — Dennis Potter Copy Share Image
Our historic imagination is at best slightly developed. We generalise and idealise the past egregiously. We set up little toys to stand… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
He leaned up a little and watched her face. Her face would now be, forever, more mysterious and impenetrable than the face… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The current CEO of Wal-Mart says he has "no choice" but to sacrifice the welfare of his employees in order to serve… — James O'Toole Copy Share Image
Our imagination and reasoning powers facilitate anxiety; the anxious feeling is precipitated not by an absolute impending threat-such as the worry about… — Willard Gaylin Copy Share Image
The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from… — Orhan Pamuk Copy Share Image
“Memory is imagination, and imagination is memory. I don’t think we remember the past, we imagine it. We take a few props… — John Banville Copy Share Image
“Your imagination is the instrument, the means, whereby your redemption from slavery, sickness, and poverty is effected. If you refuse to assume… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
“But fantasies are often the best thing we can make of our multiple and contradictory wishes; they allow us to inhabit one… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I believe that teaching is a creative art in which evidence based knowledge is applied toward meeting the learning goals of learners.… — Barbara Paterson Copy Share Image
The most direct and enduring way to reach the mind and imagination of the learner is through the mind, imagination and character… — Lowell Milken Copy Share Image
“as a child i used to complain to my father about not having toys and he would say (calvero points at his… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There's magic in the unknown; a brooding fertility in the unknowable that can work on the reader's imagination long after a book… — Claire Wingfield Copy Share Image
Art requires imagination. It requires Creativity. Creativity requires experience and experience comes from your life. And your life is expressed in your… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
I've always been introverted and so from a very young age I would play different scenarios in my head and let my… — Matthew Carter Copy Share Image
There is no limit to man's imagination that reality will not stifle. Mankind would have to rid itself of it's capitalist greed… — Pratik Kc Copy Share Image
I remember being so homesick and realizing that where I came from was not something that existed in the cultural imagination outside… — Jennine Capó Crucet Copy Share Image
I like Stan [Getz], because he has so much patience, the way he plays those melodies - other people can't get nothing… — Miles Davis Copy Share Image
It became known that I had a rather fertile imagination, when it came to private activities." She stared. "What sort of private… — Ilona Andrews Copy Share Image
I just can't afford to get bored, because if you've been blessed with a generous imagination, which a lot of actors have,… — John C. McGinley Copy Share Image
“Get to work. Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive. — Man Ray Copy Share Image
“This story is meant to make you realize that your chances of happiness in this world are terribly slim if you lack… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
As writers, we can do whatever we want to. We're only limited by our imaginations. What an amazing, incredible time to be… — J.A. Konrath Copy Share Image
“Imagination, however high it flies, Falls short, however hard it tries. But spirits fit to see deeply invest In what is boundless… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination… — Idris Elba Copy Share Image
“... except when I get down and write...then I let my imagination go to places I never knew existed and my characters… — Mark Alders Copy Share Image
I've never really had a problem with the imagination level of an audience. They're always smarter and savvier than any studio exec… — James Van Der Beek Copy Share Image
It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees… — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
How do we not rue the many unchosen paths in life? A blessed lack of imagination. There are enough real glories along… — Terry Rossio Copy Share Image
To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of… — Thomas Traherne Copy Share Image
The idea of the NHS took root in the political imagination less as an example of social entitlement's victory over private provision,… — Ash Sarkar Copy Share Image