What people, both while voting or while watching television, seek is the same - to know what you stand for and whether… — Barkha Dutt Copy Share Image
Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“If necessity is the mother of invention than imagination must be the egg. Nothing can be invented which has not first been… — Chrissy Byers Copy Share Image
Football has that wonderful gift of being accessible. You don't need much gear, a coach, or a lifeguard. You just need your… — Wangechi Mutu Copy Share Image
The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all logic, nor all mathematics, but is somewhat beauty and poetry.” — Maria Mitchell Copy Share Image
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
It is generally allowed, that no man ever found the happiness of possession proportionate to that expectation which incited his desire, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It can be demonstrated that the child's contact with the real world is strengthened by his periodic excursions into fantasy. It becomes… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
I don't have a lot of experience to draw from. I had my first kiss when I was 17 or 18. The… — Jon Heder Copy Share Image
Of the total creative effort represented in a finished work, 75 percent or more of a writer's labor goes into designing the… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
He has fantastic powers. He can be imperious, abrupt, impatient with sloppy procedures, but he is also poetic, visionary, romantic. He is… — Warren Winiarski Copy Share Image
Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few pursuits equal to painting, or in order… — Michelangelo Copy Share Image
“I watched plays with the kind of voracity with which small children read books; with the same visceral passion, the same complete… — Deirdre Madden Copy Share Image
The moment of writing is not an escape...it is only an insistence, through the imagination, upon human ecstasy, and a reminder that… — Larry Levis Copy Share Image
So you should be able to see them clearly in your imagination. We always find it easier to visualize what we fear;… — Michael Scott Copy Share Image
To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
The Constitution is more than literature, but as literature, it is primarily a work of the imagination. It imagined a country: fantastic.… — Roger Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
Our minds can go no further. The human imagination is capable of no further expression of beauty than the carved owl of… — Hilda Doolittle Copy Share Image
Engineering problems are under-defined, there are many solutions, good, bad and indifferent. The art is to arrive at a good solution. This… — Ove Arup Copy Share Image
I had never been a comic book person before, really, because I had no access to them. Once I had access, I… — Marjorie Liu Copy Share Image
When I was a child, Lego came in brick form, you'd buy boxes of random bricks. You used your imagination and your… — Ben Fogle Copy Share Image
One way or another the no doubt mad idea entered my mind that my own actions had historic importance and this fantasy… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere. — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
“Without faith, there is no imagination; without imagination, there is no innovation; and without innovation, there is no future.” — Mitri Raheb Copy Share Image
Those people who recognise that imagination is reality's master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists. — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
A single glass of champagne imparts a feeling of exhilaration. The nerves are braced; the imagination is stirred, the wits become more… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
If you want to be free with your imagination, you need to be very realistic, but you have also to shift things… — Alice Rohrwacher Copy Share Image
My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as… — Jarrett J. Krosoczka Copy Share Image
“Therefore the man of genius requires imagination, in order to see in things not what nature has actually formed, but what she… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Toy Story 3 is so besotted with brand names and product-placement that it stops being about the innocent pleasures of imagination --… — Armond White Copy Share Image
It's the idea that anticipation is as scary as anything in a movie could be. People's imagination is the most effective tool… — Matt Reeves Copy Share Image
The past is not the present: pretending it is corrupts art and thus both rots the mind and shrivels the imagination and… — Paul Fussell Copy Share Image
I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
