The reason prophets are so rarely honored in their own country is that their role is to transcend the limits of their… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the resposibility that begins in dreams. But you have to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
They say for every light on Broadway there is a broken heart, an unrealized dream. And that’s the same in any profession.… — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A good many of my poems over the years have alluded to or taken on the political. Stevens has a line in… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
Instead of focusing on the amount of money lacking in your budget, focus on what you DO have: a willing spirit, an… — Phil Keoghan Copy Share Image
Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
When you have a script, and you're discussing what it can be, and who going to play what role, that's a kind… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
[My novel] took up the sweetest part of my mind and the rarest part of my imagination; it was like being in… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
Unless you periodically unbind yourself from the world as it is given to you from moment to moment, you will fail to… — Peter London Copy Share Image
It is a grave error for historians of literature to interpret the national spirit of the age in an oversimplified manner, ignoring… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
For 'Frost/Nixon,' everyone I spoke to told the story their way. Even people in the room tell different versions. There's no one… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Without question it may be said of Vancouver that her position, geographically, is Imperial to a degree, that her possibilities are enormous,… — Homer Copy Share Image
“Dream by all means… I still want to see every corner of the globe, paint a perfect picture and hold a star… — S.C. Vincent Copy Share Image
Your skills may not be anything out of the ordinary, but you can do miraculous things with what you've got. Maybe it's… — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
It's almost like living a double life where I'm in a limbo space where Amanda Knox, a real person, exists, 'Foxy Knoxy,'… — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
“Magic is the first language of the world. It was the language before words, before mathematics. Humanity can accept concepts like space… — Rosella Testa Copy Share Image
The public, as a whole, does not demand or appreciate the pure expression of beauty. Its cultured members expect to find in… — Harold Monro Copy Share Image
“In Ruth's view, they looked 'like a couple' because they seemed to possess some terrible secret between them - they appeared stricken… — John Irving Copy Share Image
By directing our sentiments, passions, and reason toward the common human plight, imagination grants us the advantages of a moralexistence. What we… — Louise J. Kaplan Copy Share Image
In the time of my parents, before World War One, most people who came to New Zealand from Europe were the more… — Maurice Wilkins Copy Share Image
For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination's caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The more I study nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force with the conclusion, that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
To finish building the free society dreamed of by Washington, Franklin, and Jefferson, we must draw upon the resources of the enlightened… — Robert Thurman Copy Share Image
I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my… — Yehuda Amichai Copy Share Image
Football is one of the world's best means of communication. It is impartial, apolitical and universal. Football unites people around the world… — Franz Beckenbauer Copy Share Image
“So I continued spinning fantasies, and now alcohol fueled my dreams. I would make great discoveries, win the Nobel Prize in medicine… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great task demanded of man is reproduction. He is urged by passion to perform this task. Passion, working through the imagination,… — Jack London Copy Share Image
The trouble with him was that he was without imagination. He was quick and alert in the things of life, but only… — Jack London Copy Share Image
I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist… — Scott Lynch Copy Share Image
We are the bright new stars born of a screaming black hole, the nascent suns burst from the darkness, from the grasping… — Dave Eggers Copy Share Image
“Rows and rows of books lined the shelves and I let my eyes linger on the sturdy spines, thinking how human books… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most terrible (or wonderful) thing that can happen to an imaginative youth, aside from the curse (or blessing) of imagination… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
I try to be as faithful as possible to the facts as I understand them, but any story is at least partly… — Jason Lutes Copy Share Image
Moscow, Rome, London, Paris stay in place. Leningrad and New York float, spreading all their sails, cutting space with their prows, and… — Nina Berberova Copy Share Image
“All self-expression is the product of the imagination, so how can we speak of an objective reflection of the real in words?… — Bruce Gatenby Copy Share Image
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