Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
It is the childlike part of us that produces works of the imagination. When we were children time passed so slow with… — William Morris Copy Share Image
The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
“What is a Wanderess? Bound by no boundaries, contained by no countries, tamed by no time, she is the force of nature’s… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
That's what reading was for my mother, and became for me - a way to escape, a private time machine, a place… — Ramona Koval Copy Share Image
An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“What is more boundless than imagination? What is more primordial than the art of creation? To create and be creative is perhaps… — Atalina Wright Copy Share Image
I have to always check back in with my imagination just to remember that I have this infinite potential, and I can… — Kamasi Washington Copy Share Image
A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
Everyone has options. They are a fixed set of predetermined scenarios, points of view, perceived limitations that already reside in your data… — Nicholas Lore Copy Share Image
To say that such-and-such a circumstance is 'Kafkaesque' is to admit to the denigration of an imagination that has burned a hole… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Actually, the suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers imagine. Their very blandness forces the imagination into new areas.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“I have dreamed of that song, of the strange words to that simple rhyme-song, and on several occasions I have understood what… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Doubt is a profound and effective spiritual motivation. Without doubt, no truism is transcended, no new knowledge found, no expansion of the… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
I feel really strongly about not wanting to overly guide the reader about what he or she should think. I really trust… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to see landscapes, i.e. scenic paintings of them, because I don’t want to see the original realities – as… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
It's an imaginative thing we do; it's about immersing oneself in one's imagination. If you're a novelist, you do it with pen… — Rupert Friend Copy Share Image
“The "field" encompassed in the "science of the Imagination" is so vast that it is difficult to enumerate all its sectors.” — Henry Corbin Copy Share Image
The clich? that women, more consistently than men, turn inward for sustenance seems to mean, in practice, that women have richly defined… — Patricia Ann Meyer Spacks Copy Share Image
Courses in the humanities, in particular, often seem impractical, but they are vital, because they stretch your imagination and challenge your mind… — Martha Nussbaum Copy Share Image
True sympathy is putting ourselves in another's place; and we are moved in proportion to the reality of our imagination. — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
With multimedia, everything blurs. Software takes the concept of the imagination and makes it something you can edit, tweak, and transform with… — DJ Spooky Copy Share Image
Art that submits to orthodoxy, to even the soundest doctrines, but lacks imagination and deep self-expression is lost leaving only the craftsmanship. — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
Truth is a matter of the imagination. The soundest fact may fail or prevail in the style of its telling: like that… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
In Haydn's oratorios, the notes present to the imagination not only motions, as, of the snake, the stag, and the elephant, but… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
For decades I'd flit from drawing table to typewriter to guitar with no sense of strain or contradiction. They all exercised the… — Peter Blegvad Copy Share Image
Creative freedom is determined by how we behold the world. Any one of us can make new things with our perceptions that… — Shaun McNiff Copy Share Image
If there is one thing I long for above all else, it's that the years to come may see Christianity in this… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
My imagination was really hyperactive as a child and animated. I had those elements, but as you live and go through the… — Wes Bentley Copy Share Image
The Love of God is like the ocean...you can see its beginnings, but you cannot imagine its width and depth. God loves… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
The un-happiest of mortals is that man who insists upon reliving the past, over and over in imagination - continually criticizing himself… — Maxwell Maltz Copy Share Image
“Scent is such a powerful tool of attraction, that if a woman has this tool perfectly tuned, she needs no other. I… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
Multitasking, throughput, efficiency - these are excellent machine concepts, useful in the design of computer systems. But are they principles that nurture… — Ellen Ullman Copy Share Image
you pay a price for the 'gift' of an active imagination. While mine played a major part in making me a writer,… — Jean Little Copy Share Image
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination. — Charles de Gaulle Copy Share Image
Fairy tales were great because they provided a no-limits playground for my imagination, and growing up, there's nothing more exciting. — Elliot Knight Copy Share Image
“The brain had its own food on which it battened, and the imagination, made grotesque by terror, twisted and distorted as a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We are raised to honor all the wrong explorers and discoverers thieves planting flags, murderers carrying crosses. Let us at last praise… — Peter S. Beagle Copy Share Image
If you want to save yourself the ticket price, go into the kitchen, cue up a male choir singing the music of… — Roger Ebert Copy Share Image
