As poet laureate, I was asked to be a spokesman for literature. Then what I decided is I am a spokesman for… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
“The human mind’s innate ability to imagine and create ensures that we never remain stalled out in who we are. We constantly… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even… — Daniel Espinosa Copy Share Image
O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud--what… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
To create a new standard it takes something that's not just a little bit different. It takes something that's really new and… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which… — Michael O'Brien Copy Share Image
“To you, it's a book to read - a nicely printed stack of paper with a beautiful cover. To me, it's a… — Jason P. Stadtlander Copy Share Image
“There is a speculative battle innate to imagination this much we know, yet let us not ‘bear the wounds’2 of battles’ avoided.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I can't make you understand because you don't know the meaning of fear. You have the heart of a lion and an… — Margaret Mitchell Copy Share Image
“Ha-ha!' the fox laughed. '*Just* stories, you say, as if stories mean nothing? Stories are the stuff that sticks the world together.… — C. Alexander London Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I had performed by first autopsy that I realized that even the drabest human exteriors could contain the most… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
The problem with people who are afraid of imagination, of fantasy, is that their world becomes so narrow that I don't see… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
When you are a people's movement, you have one thing. Your only asset is people. And you have to deal with real… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
She's the only woman I've ever had a sexual fantasy about. With me, looks come first, and she's everything a woman should… — Rod Stewart Copy Share Image
If we find it hard to believe that winning millions might not be so lucky after all, we just don't have a… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
“You’re deluding yourself if you think you can know who I am or what I want from spying on me in my… — Chloe Jacobs Copy Share Image
I went to Europe three times, I read dozens and dozens of books, I studied thousands of photos. But I always supplemented… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Lemberger's stories are marvelous compounds of scholarship, imagination and empathy. Brought to life with rich historical detail, these biblical women, sidelined and… — Michelle Huneven Copy Share Image
Genius is not a single power, but a combination of great powers. It reasons, but it is not reasoning; it judges, but… — Edwin Percy Whipple Copy Share Image
Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their… — Rudolf Steiner Copy Share Image
Maybe we should develop a Crayola bomb as our next secret weapon. A happiness weapon. A Beauty Bomb. And every time a… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
If you take your inspiration from nature, you don't invent anything, because what you want to do is to interpret something. But… — Brassai Copy Share Image
Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort… — William Robertson Smith Copy Share Image
He always seemed to women different from what he was, and they loved in him not himself, but the man created by… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
“The sound of her phone shocked her out of the dark world that was currently playing in front of her eyes from… — Allie Burke Copy Share Image
For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined; one believed one knew them, but one represented them… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
'The green beret' is again becoming a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Imagination consists in expelling from reality many incomplete persons, making use of the magical and subversive powers of desire, to obtain their… — René Char Copy Share Image
“We make a home for ourselves, every time we work on something: actors, writers, singers, building these little nests in our gypsy… — Alan Brennert Copy Share Image
Tell the image makers and magazine sellers and the plastic surgeons that you are not afraid. That what you fear the most… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
You have to understand, writing a novel gets very weird and invisible-friend-from-childhood-ish. Then you kill that thing, which was never really alive… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I like when an image could be just one of several others which would create a story. That you can imagine who… — Audrey Tautou Copy Share Image
My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it.… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
Art originates in play - in improvisation, experiment, and fantasy; it remains forever, in its deepest instincts, playful and spontaneous, an exercise… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be… — Paul Davies Copy Share Image
We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Most cocktails containing liquor are made today with gin and ingenuity. In brief, take an ample supply of the former and use… — Irma S. Rombauer Copy Share Image
I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Sharing is the essence of teaching. It is, I have come to believe, the essence of civilization...Without it, the imagination is but… — Bill Moyers Copy Share Image
