“(speaking of Ann Radcliffe) A work of art worthy of the name is one which gives us back the freshness of the… — André Breton Copy Share Image
All poets adore explosions, thunderstorms, tornadoes, conflagrations, ruins, scenes of spectacular carnage. The poetic imagination is not at all a desirable quality… — W. H. Auden Copy Share Image
Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the… — William Irwin Thompson Copy Share Image
There is no safest place in this world than that peaceful world you created with your imagination. There is no safest relationship… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The most common human act that writing a novel resembles is lying. The working novelist lies daily, very complexly, and at great… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
I write fantasy because it's there. I have no other excuse for sitting down for several hours a day indulging my imagination.… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
You really have to be in touch with your soul and spirit and your imagination - it keeps you in shape, and… — Chita Rivera Copy Share Image
We have all lost our possessions and many of us our homes," he said. "But these losses, severe though they may seem,… — Lloyd Jones Copy Share Image
In physics, one of the most exciting areas is in nanotech. With computers exhausting the power of silicon, Silicon Valley could become… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
Anxiety uses imagination to picture something you don't want. Vision uses imagination to picture something you DO want. Either way, you tend… — Ian Lawton Copy Share Image
“When a person reaches the end of a book and says, 'I want to read that again,' what he's actually saying is… — Richelle E. Goodrich 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
When you do your research write down whatever interests you. Whatever stimulates your imagination. Whatever seems important. A story is built like… — Roland Smith Copy Share Image
We also use our imagination and take shortcuts to fill gaps in patterns of nonvisual data. As with visual input, we draw… — Leonard Mlodinow Copy Share Image
The innovative process is a fragile one, dependent on a complex, often messy interplay of imagination, competition, and exchange. Curbing new ideas… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
In Ronald Reagan's chaotic childhood, the imagination was armor. There is nothing unusual about that; transcending the doubts, hesitations, and fears swirling… — Rick Perlstein Copy Share Image
But You know Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her that I look for fame - and all that the warmth… — John Constable Copy Share Image
It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others. — Alexander McCall Smith Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I used to escape from my family with my imagination, and I kept this spirit into my… — Jean-Pierre Jeunet Copy Share Image
A lot of these liberal churches that harbor illegal immigrants who are criminals say they are following the example of Jesus. They… — Robert Jeffress Copy Share Image
Politics has always been the art of the possible. Today it's too often the art of the probable - tinkering around the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If I had influence with the good fairy... I should ask that her gift to each child in the world be a… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
Growing up, my mom made us this amazing thing called The Mack Theatrical Wardrobe. It was a massive trunk filled with everything… — Allison Mack Copy Share Image
I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming… — Sean Parker Copy Share Image
There’s a strange quality in stop-motion photography, like in King Kong, that adds to the fantasy. If you make things too real,… — Ray Harryhausen Copy Share Image
The greatest sin of political imagination: Thinking there is no other way except the filthy rotten system we have today. — Shane Claiborne Copy Share Image
“The Kingdom of Heaven is within and it lies beyond your wildest imagination, so expect a roller coaster ride to get there!” — Carl J. Painter Copy Share Image
In my personal view, a failure to discover unimagined objects and answer unasked questions, once HST functions properly, would indicate a lack… — John N. Bahcall Copy Share Image
In thoughts one keeps a reserve of hope, in spite of everything. You cannot say good-bye in imagination. That is something you… — Shirley Hazzard Copy Share Image
Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity. — Guy Fieri Copy Share Image
Merkel has realized that the euro is not working, but she cannot change the narrative she has created because that narrative has… — George Soros Copy Share Image
The world is full of horror. Our imaginations struggle to keep up. It would be a poor life without imagining. I’m not… — Steve Rasnic Tem Copy Share Image
I think one of things is that all fantasy it seems to me works the way your brain basically works. This is… — Diana Wynne Jones Copy Share Image
Imagination is a quality that was given to man compensate him from whats not. The sense of humor was given to console… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Tensurrealism creates actual and non-compromised reality, jamboree, fervor, fascination, poetics of an active enthusiasm, interludium, lyrical practice, active happiness.” — Lepota L. Cosmo Copy Share Image
Every powerful movement has had its philosophy which has gripped the mind, fired the imagination and captured the devotion of its adherents. — John Stott Copy Share Image
Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have… — Jhumpa Lahiri Copy Share Image
I always appreciated the magnitude of my mother's imagination. She always saw beauty in what was broken, and she'd preserve it. — Blake Lively Copy Share Image
I think radio's a beautiful thing, because it's all about the imagination, and it's all about the capability of the performer being… — Paterson Joseph Copy Share Image
I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
