In the liberal imagination, the money is the government's by default, and the president and Congress determine through the tax code how… — Matthew Continetti Copy Share Image
What's a mediator you ask? Oh, a person who acts as a liason between the living and the dead. Hey, wait a… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
We created out own little world when we were kids and that's what's so special about Donegal. You can create whatever you… — Amybeth McNulty Copy Share Image
Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your… — Nancy Gibbs Copy Share Image
Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty… — Bruce Catton Copy Share Image
Very seldom in my fiction have I directly used the stories people have told me. I think ripping off people's lives in… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
My father used to say to me, 'The only limit to your success is your own imagination.' I actually believed that -… — Shonda Rhimes Copy Share Image
As to...old composers like Schubert or Beethoven, I imagine that, while modern music expresses both feeling, thought and imagination, they expressed pure… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What liberates the imagination is the sense that work in its theory and practice holds aesthetic possibilities, that jobs can be elegantly… — Robert Grudin Copy Share Image
Q: What’s hard for you? A: Mostly I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a… — Tom Waits Copy Share Image
In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else Ive ever written.… — Colleen McCullough Copy Share Image
“One of the shining exceptions in personalities is that writers do not need to be charismatic in their own persons; they are… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Charles Laughton, who's a great hero of mine, only ever made one film and it happens to be one of the great… — Brian Cox Copy Share Image
I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I… — Zooey Deschanel Copy Share Image
“WRITER'S NIGHTMARE" "I felt a grip on my arm that shook my body, forcefully pulling me toward a tunnel of darkness. … — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
“Picture to yourself the most beautiful girl imaginable! She was so beautiful that there would be no point, in view of my… — Walter Moers Copy Share Image
When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
One must recently have lived on or close to a college campus to have a vivid intimation of what has happened. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The trouble was that Itzy had what her mother had always called an ‘overactive imagination’. Even if she wanted to stop the… — Vrinda Pendred Copy Share Image
When we were kids , we get scared of Monsters even we never saw them ,but we had used our childish fertile… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Perhaps looking out through big baby eyes - if we could - would not be as revelatory experience as many imagine. We… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“If it is indeed the business of imagination to make politics distrust itself - reminding it that its principles are not literal… — Richard Kearney Copy Share Image
The mathematic, then, is an art. As such it has its styles and style periods. It is not, as the layman and… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
Let us fix our attention out of ourselves as much as possible; let us chase our imagination to the heavens, or to… — David Hume Copy Share Image
If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
I believe in the imperative to explore, so any project that I can be involved with that celebrates that, and expands people's… — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
We need to get back to trusting our emotional rapport with children, to seeing a child's beauty and singling that child out.… — James Hillman Copy Share Image
In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
Microsoft does not dominate the software industry by any stretch of the imagination. We have lots of very able competitors who keep… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
The catastrophe story, whoever may tell it, represents a constructive and positive act by the imagination rather than a negative one, an… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Often, very often, I am alone. My studio in Amsterdam, (Beckmann lived in the center of Amsterdam during World War 2.) an… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“What I corrupted was what is called the truth in favour of a more marvelous world. I could always improve on the… — Anaïs Nin Copy Share Image
“There it is,” he’d say reverentially. “The box represents the mysterious threshold between reality and make-believe. [..] Because every one of us… — Marisha Pessl Copy Share Image
The dwarves of course are quite obviously, couldn't you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
Adventures come to the adventurous, and mysterious things fall in the way of those who, with wonder and imagination, are on the… — Algernon Blackwood Copy Share Image
I can't separate the process of writing from the visual process. I'm speaking only for myself here, but I'm a highly visual… — Stephen Gaghan Copy Share Image
Time spent with children is time well spent. Their little minds are not constrained by 'reality' or focused upon goals. Anything and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Movement, after all, seemed futile to him. He felt that imagination could easily be substituted for the vulgar realities of things. It… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
The more closely the author thinks of why he wrote, the more he comes to regard his imagination as a kind of… — Richard Wright Copy Share Image
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