“oh youth! The strength of it, the faith of it, the imagination of it!” — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I think more influential than Emily Dickinson or Coleridge or Wordsworth on my imagination were Warner Brothers, Merrie Melodies and Looney Tunes… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
The arts open your heart and mind to possibilities that are limitless. They are pathways that touch upon our brains and emotions… — Jacques d'Amboise 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
I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of… — Anne Fadiman 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
Imagination is the means of deep insight and sympathy, the power to conceive and express images removed from normal objective reality. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Insanity is coasting through life in a miserable existence when you have a caged lion locked inside and the key to release… — Morgan Freeman Copy Share Image
London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Donald Trump's blaming the media, he's blaming the GOP, he's saying that America can't run a fair election. He is swinging at… — Tim Kaine Copy Share Image
Love is purely a creation of the human imagination, it is merely perhaps the most important of all the examples of how… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination. — Terry Brooks Copy Share Image
I demand that the world be good, and lo, it obeys. I proclaim the world good, and facts range themselves to prove… — Helen Keller Copy Share Image
I have no imagination about holidays, vacations, or retiring life. I can't imagine about those things. — Yohji Yamamoto Copy Share Image
For the child whose impulsiveness is indulged, who retains his primitive-discharge mechanisms, is not only an ill-behaved child but a child whose… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations. — J. J. Abrams Copy Share Image
Eroticism is mystique; that is, the aura of emotion and imagination around sex. It cannot be 'fixed' by codes of social or… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
When a certain show or film or celebrity captures the imagination of the masses that has a good deal to say about… — Laurie Foos Copy Share Image
The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas. — William Bernbach Copy Share Image
“Illium was a stunning sight against the lightening sky, his wings sweeping through the air with a grace that made him seem… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
Long may Louis de Broglie continue to inspire those who suspect that what is proved by impossibility proofs is lack of imagination. — John Stewart Bell Copy Share Image
“But if it so happens ... a work ... under pain of otherwise becoming shameful or false, requires fantasy ... [and that]… — Michaelangelo Copy Share Image
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more… — Taylor Swift Copy Share Image
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation. — Wendy Beckett 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
Of course it is inconceivable to me / that you can give what Shape are your imagination — Mak_786 Copy Share Image
“I have, to begin with, an incurably romantic imagination. The practice of throwing a bottle into the sea with an important document… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
I certainly incorporate facts into my fiction. I take the basic facts from the life of my subject and I pick and… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
The only goal in life is to be happy, genuinely, intensely and consistently , regardless of what it looks like to others. — Abhishek Shukla Copy Share Image
I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me. — Kazuo Ishiguro Copy Share Image
Whatever appeals to the imagination, by transcending the ordinary limits of human ability, wonderfully encourages and liberates us. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
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