The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutionsthat get rid of the whole problem-… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in… — Barbara Grizzuti Harrison Copy Share Image
“Everyone needs to escape sometimes, and retreating into somebody else's fantasy isn't nearly as satisfying as slipping into your own.” — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off… — Gary Ross Copy Share Image
Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals. — Zeno Vendler Copy Share Image
Imagine settling for a life you can have because you don't have the courage to go after the life you really want. — Jill Davis Copy Share Image
Creativity requires novelty. Imagination is all about counterfactuals and untested possibilities that don't yet exist. — Maria Konnikova 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
I believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I feel like I'm moving from a world where I was creating fantasies that weren't real inside - and very often feeling… — Damien Rice Copy Share Image
It seems to be the fate of man to seek all his consolations in futurity. The time present is seldom able to… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
People read a lot of stories about witches, fairies, paranormals, and children possessed by evil spirits. They go to films showing rituals… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Soul, a particle of God, is blessed with the gift of creative imagination, which finds a solution for every problem. — Harold Klemp Copy Share Image
A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
We are creatures of information and the imagination. The monkey we are already beginning to transform and shed. We don't look like… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Among the sayings and discourses imputed to him (i.e. Jesus) by his biographers, I find many passages of fine imagination, correct morality,… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“Dreaming is not only an act of communication; it is also an aesthetic activity, a game of the imagination, a game that… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that… — Richard Le Gallienne 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
The clothes you're wearing, the room, the house, the city that you're in. Everything in it started out in the human imagination.… — Superman Copy Share Image