I think that people need an adrenalin rush. Folks need something aspirational; they need to do something that is hard. That's what… — Mae Jemison Copy Share Image
o matter how much research you do, or invention you do, whether it's a character from a novel, a completely invented character… — Cate Blanchett 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
But You know Landscape is my mistress - 'tis to her that I look for fame - and all that the warmth… — John Constable Copy Share Image
Creative fantasy, because it is mainly trying to do something else ... may open your hoard and let all the locked things… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
There are two Italies.... The one is the most sublime and lovely contemplation that can be conceived by the imagination of man;… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Neither rejoice nor lament prematurely; for whatever may happen, all will be well if we only have health; for happiness exists--merely in… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
Republicanism is not the phantom of a deluded imagination. On the contrary, laws, under no form of government, are better supported, liberty… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“Nobody is allowed to tell me where the limits of my imagination are.” — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“Writing a story is like ruling the world. Except it's even better. How many rulers out there that you know can tell… — VanillaCreamPie8888 Copy Share Image
“Subcreation is not just a desire, but a need and a right; it renews our vision and gives us new perspective and… — Mark J.P. Wolf Copy Share Image
Oh! this opponent, this collaborator against his will, whose notion of Beauty always differs from yours and whose means (strength, imagination, technique)… — Alexander Alekhine Copy Share Image
All this could be part of a plan. There is no way an atheist can prove it’s not. But it’s some plan,… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Everyone should know nowadays the unimportance of the photographic in art: that truth, life, or reality is an organic thing which the… — Tennessee Williams Copy Share Image
I don't know what imagination is, if not an unpruned, tangled kind of memory. — Christina Stead Copy Share Image
In film, a lot of the time you're not as engaged, it is all being given to you, and you're accepting it… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Works of imagination excel by their allurement and delight; by their power of attracting and detaining the attention. That book is good… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In our imaginations we can go anywhere. Travel with me to Redwall in Mossflower country. — Brian Jacques Copy Share Image
It's not only that I want to get things right when I'm composing but that my imagination often gets lost, and then… — George Benjamin Copy Share Image
People will ask me, "How do you approach writing books for young readers differently than for adults?" My answer is always: I… — Alan Gratz Copy Share Image
For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“If we don’t manage to connect the dots anymore and the power of our imagination is creaking at the seams, in a… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Imagine, if you will, that I am an idiot. Then, imagine that I am also a Congressman. But, alas, I repeat myself. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
My parents had come from Mexico, a short road in my imagination. I felt myself as coming from a caramelized planet, an… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world. — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them. — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
That is the simple secret of happiness. Whatever you are doing, don’t let past move your mind; don’t let future disturb you.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I don't want to discredit people's individuality, but I think people are pretty much the same. People are very similar. If you… — Kristen Stewart Copy Share Image
A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
People are only limited by their imagination. If you don't dream then you won't do it. Human beings are capable of doing… — Nirmal Purja Copy Share Image
Bad teaching is teaching which presents an endless procession of meaningless signs, words and rules, and fails to arouse the imagination. — W. W. Sawyer Copy Share Image
