Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination. — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
On one hand, I kind of feel like I have unlimited options right now, and obviously that's not technically true, but when… — Andrew Bujalski Copy Share Image
No fantasies, I don't think. Most of my fantasies have already been realized. — George Michael Copy Share Image
The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly… — Carol Ann Duffy Copy Share Image
In democracies, nothing is more great or more brilliant than commerce: it attracts the attention of the public, and fills the imagination… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
Reading 'IT' again as an adult, you understand it from a different perspective. It is basically a love letter to childhood and… — Andy Muschietti Copy Share Image
“If your imaginary friends are at all like mine, they’re better off dead.” — Susan Spann Copy Share Image
Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities. — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Imagination should always be treasured, even when it's slightly off-key. — Genesis P-Orridge Copy Share Image
I've always been curious about the other worlds we can shift into in our imaginations. — Noma Dumezweni Copy Share Image
“He expected pages and pages of bright pictures of pancakes of every variety shown in plain stacks, or built into castles or… — Michael Hoeye Copy Share Image
By poetry we mean the art of employing of words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination;… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
To make your spiritual yearning public, I thought, was to announce that you were wounded. To turn deeply into religion was to… — Vanessa L Ochs Copy Share Image
Cinema felt like a fantasy. It was like watching dreams unfold on the screen before me. — Dileesh Pothan Copy Share Image
In my opinion we can never think of God in big enough terms. He is bigger than our biggest thoughts of Him.… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
Writing has always been an incredible outlet for me to feel like I have a voice, even when sometimes I was the… — Natalya Neidhart Copy Share Image
It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with… — Thomas Harris Copy Share Image
It is with some violation of the imagination that we conceive of an actor belonging to the relations of private life, so… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing. — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
Books, I knew then and now, give body to our ideas and imaginations, make them flesh in the world; a bookstore is… — Lewis Buzbee Copy Share Image
I don't really think of time off as writing blocks. I think that's a western notion of demonizing inactivity. When your imagination… — Elliott Smith Copy Share Image
“Can you imagine a scenario, given our present circumstances, in which human life will actually survive and be here in a thousand… — Daniel J. Rice Copy Share Image
Children’s literature must build a bridge between the colorful dream world full of fantasy and illusion, and a tougher real world full… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sound and proper exercise of the imagination may be made to contribute to the cultivation of all that is virtuous and… — John Abercrombie Copy Share Image
The best you can hope for in a relationship is to find someone whose flaws are the sort you don’t mind. It… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I… — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
Human beings thrive on imagination and pushing boundaries and limitations. Imposing limits when we don't actually have any true idea of what's… — Kameron Hurley Copy Share Image
Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life. — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
Intuition is a combination of insight and imagination that was once attributed to spiritual communication. Mathematicians call it 'fuzzy logic,' drawing conclusions… — Jennifer James Copy Share Image
“Stephen Burt is Professor of English at Harvard. "Butterfly with Parachute" Stephen Burt A real one wouldn’t need one, but the one… — Stephen Burt Copy Share Image
