The elegance of dress, of motion, and of manners gives a lustre to beauty, and inflames the senses through the imagination. Luxurious… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
“What all this means is that learning the impossible is possible augments our ability to see ourselves doing the impossible, which triggers… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
Character halts without aid of the imagination, which our classes in Shakespeare and Browning, music and drawing, recognize not only as amusement… — C. A. Bartol Copy Share Image
Anyone can do shock value. Develop enough tension and cue the music right, then have something jump out: It's almost impossible not… — Daniel Myrick Copy Share Image
The fantasy that appeals most to people is the kind that's rooted thoroughly in somebody looking around a corner and thinking, 'What… — Tamora Pierce Copy Share Image
All that the posture of skepticism accomplishes is to freeze the ego in an ignorantist poverty that never stretches or diversifies its… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
We must in imagination sweep off the drifted matter that clogs the surface of the ground; we must suppose all the covering… — Adam Sedgwick Copy Share Image
But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget. You take your material where you find it, which is in your… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Your reactions, whether positive or negative, are creative of future circumstances. In your imagination, you can hear words congratulating you on getting… — Neville Goddard Copy Share Image
“What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling; some sort of extreme of subject matter;… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
Life is infinite energy coupled with limitless creative imagination. It is the invisible essence and substance of every visible form. Its nature… — Ernest Holmes Copy Share Image
Because I was new to comics, I didn't know what to expect! However, I really like working collaboratively [on Dark Tower series],… — Robin Furth Copy Share Image
“I'd begun to grow weary of my constant daydreaming because, as I retreated more often into fantasy, it had become a reminder… — Nick Miller Copy Share Image
Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to its… — John Noble Wilford Copy Share Image
He'd always known that the world was an interesting place, and his imagination had peopled it with pirates and bandits and spies… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“Morning Sea Let me stop right here. Let me, too, have a look at nature: the morning sea and the cloudless sky,… — Constantinos P. Cavafis Copy Share Image
We are rarely able to interact only with folks like ourselves, who think as we do. No matter how much some of… — Bell Hooks Copy Share Image
You're afraid of imagination and even more afraid of dreams. Afraid of the responsibility that begins in dreams. But you have to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
Certainly I was a very religious child, a deeply weird and very emotional child, an only child with lots of imaginary friends… — Lee Smith Copy Share Image
“Long ago, before I had ever seen a diamond, I read about them and I tried to imagine what they would be… — Lucy Maud Montgomery Copy Share Image
Hunger, inadequate medical care, poor housing, and inferior schools are enemies of the sense of wonder. It is easier and less expensive… — Margaret Geller Copy Share Image
The individual exists only in your imagination. It is just an illusion. When the Atma is one without a second, when the… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
In The Care and Management of Lies the wonderfully talented Winspear writes irresistibly about the First World War, both in the trenches… — Margot Livesey Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered as an imaginer, someone who used his imagination as a way to journey beyond the limits of… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
most of us persist in regarding leadership as synonymous with - indeed solely derived from - high position. Perhaps the notion of… — Sally Helgesen Copy Share Image
The Enormous Room seems to me to be the book that has nearest approached the moodof reckless adventure in which men will… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Reading is everything. Reading makes me feel like I've accomplished something, learned something, become a better person. Reading makes me smarter. Reading… — Nora Ephron Copy Share Image
Growing up, my parents managed to show me the importance of reading without cramming it down my throat. A difficult task, I'm… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Now I existed solely thanks to the quantum paradox, my brain a collection of qubits in quantum superposition, encoding truths and memories,… — Robin Wasserman Copy Share Image
“If human nature does alter it will be because individuals manage to look at themselves in a new way. Here and there… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
“His mind had been working away behind his high forehead. Unimaginative himself he could recognize imagination in her: he had come upon… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
It's usually easier to rouse stupidity to action than to arouse wisdom to effort, for wisdom sees alternatives while stupidity lacks the… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
Nevertheless, scientific method is not the same as the scientific spirit. The scientific spirit does not rest content with applying that which… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think it's a blessing that the show [Dracula] is on a network because it forces everyone to use their imaginations and… — Oliver Jackson-Cohen 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
“A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and many… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
I do not believe in God, but I believe God is man’s greatest idea. Those incapable of religious feeling or those (like… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
If you take your inspiration from nature, you don't invent anything, because what you want to do is to interpret something. But… — Brassai Copy Share Image
Anthropologists visit the temple sites and read the inscriptions and make up stories about the Maya, but they do not read the… — Carlos Barrios Copy Share Image
How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
![“Because I was new to comics, I didn't know what to expect! However, I really like working collaboratively [on Dark Tower series], since I feel that - with so many different imaginations working together - the final product is so much richer. I also feel incredibly lucky to be able to work with…” quote by Robin Furth](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4b8/robin-furth-29780_able_because-i-was-new-to-comics-i-didn-t-kno_128920.jpg)
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