When your parents regulate everything you hear and everything you intake, it forces you to get creative in other ways. It sparked… — SZA Copy Share Image
And with listening, too, it seems to me, it is not the ear that hears, it is not the physical organ that… — Mary Caroline Richards Copy Share Image
I realized the shells were talking in a voice I recognized. I should have; it was my own. Had I always known… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
All acting is an act of imagination. You are simply conjuring up imaginary circumstances in your mind and responding truthfully to them. — Tom Hiddleston Copy Share Image
Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The fine gifts of temperament and imagination which are essential to the production of true poetry are often accompanied by morbid sensibility.… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
That which men suppose the imagination to be, and to do, is often frivolous enough and mischievous enough; but that which God… — Henry Ward Beecher 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
Over many years so many poets have touched my imagination and opened paths for me - it hardly makes sense to list… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Most people who play golf have one big trouble: they think too much. To get any real mileage out of this game… — Sam Snead Copy Share Image
The great end of art is to strike the imagination with the power of a soul that refuses to admit defeat even… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
With any kind of sci-fi, the imagination continues, and the world exists, and you create that in your own mind, and it… — Scott Bakula Copy Share Image
Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
Manners are about imagination, ultimately. They are about imagining being the other person. — Lynne Truss Copy Share Image
The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so… — James Weldon Johnson Copy Share Image
I was taught to lie at a young age. . . . I think that [A PARK IN OUR HOUSE] describes what… — Nilo Cruz Copy Share Image
If you're using your imagination, you tend to look into the past for ideas. — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
As opposed to putting too much confidence in myself, or in an image or a scene or a set of brushes, I… — Dan Colen Copy Share Image
The termination is not based on innocence or guilt, but on biology. The sociopath personality is fraudulent. They are impostors within the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What is the use of having an imagination if you can't make it work for you?” — Carolyn Wells Copy Share Image
The imagination is the medium of appreciation in every field. The engagement of the imagination is the only thing that makes any… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
My fantasy is that I could wake up looking amazing, that I could be strong and stop the bully, but that everybody… — Patty Jenkins Copy Share Image
I have a crazy imagination, and it's a visual one that can be scary from time to time. — MO Copy Share Image
I don't like super-descriptive modern fiction. I like, "Here's what was happening in 1582 all over the planet." Then that gets my… — Andrew Bird Copy Share Image
I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
The answers to our problems don't lie beyond our reach. They exist in our laboratories and universities; in our fields and our… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
My mind has an obsessive, neurotic quality, but I also have a very hard work ethic. I know that a lot of… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Your imagination can focus on ugliness, distress and failure, or it can picture beauty, success, desired results. You decide how you want… — Philip Mallory Conley Copy Share Image
We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope. — Ariel Dorfman Copy Share Image
It is thus religion infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity and fanaticism: if he has a heated imagination it… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
“The mind of man possesses a sort of creative power on its own; either in representing at pleasure the images of things… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
“Our imagination so magnifies the present, because we are continually thinking about it, and so reduces eternity, because we do not think… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
I do have a collection of mid-century, small-press science fiction and fantasy hardcovers that is my most focused and dedicated collection. Everything… — Michael Chabon Copy Share Image
The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos. — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
There are no mistakes and it's never boring on the edge of imagination, which is only pure spirit having a bit of… — Wavy Gravy Copy Share Image
These visions which I saw were not in sleep nor in dreams, nor in my imagination nor by bodily eyes or outward… — Hildegard of Bingen Copy Share Image
![“I was taught to lie at a young age. . . . I think that [A PARK IN OUR HOUSE] describes what people make out of their reality in a totalitarian system like Castro's. They take flight and move into the imagination in order to transcend their immediate reality. I had to write this play. It helped me…” quote by Nilo Cruz](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/a26/nilo-cruz-36320_age_i-was-taught-to-lie-at-a-young-age-i-thi_3050601.jpg)
