Literature and the other arts play with pattern - our brains understand our world by recognizing patterns - and with possibility. The… — Brian Boyd Copy Share Image
If life is to be fully human it must serve some end which seems, in some sense, outside human life, some end… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
If we find it hard to believe that winning millions might not be so lucky after all, we just don't have a… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
It seems to me that this whole alone is worthy of the deeper sort of love; and that there is peace, freedom,… — Robinson Jeffers Copy Share Image
But in the years since the neoliberal project really has been stripped down to what was always its essence: not an economic… — David Graeber Copy Share Image
When the sky fills with bright colors I look towards the sunset to find you. I imagine you standing there next to… — Ty Onda Copy Share Image
“What a strange thing it is to wake up to a milk-white overcast June morning! The sun is hidden by a thick… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
“Until recently the locus of sexual fantasy was peopled with images actually glimpsed or were sensations actually felt, or private imaginings taken… — Naomi Wolf Copy Share Image
To reach only for that which pleasantly enchants you is the least of imagination, if even imagination at all, by the obvious… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
The more you observe life in relation to yourself the more you will see the fact that you are hardly ever correct… — Barry Long Copy Share Image
The Spy Who Came in from the Cold was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
One of the most terrible things about the English education System in Ireland is its ruthlessness...it is cold and mechanical, like the… — Patrick Pearse Copy Share Image
“I have zero respect for knowledge, that’s what computers are for. Imagination is the kicker because imagination can extrapolate, create and solve,… — Steve Merrick Copy Share Image
My dear boy, the people who love only once in their lives are really the shallow people. What they call their loyalty,… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
We may seem the weakest and most insignificant of all the Realms, but our strength comes in other ways. We have what… — Chris Wooding Copy Share Image
I teach you that there is no other aim than to live with such totality that each moment becomes a celebration. The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
To read great books does not mean one becomes ‘bookish’; it means that something of the terrible insight of Dostoyevsky, of the… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
“I imagined a labyrinth of labyrinths, a maze of mazes, a twisting, turning, ever-widening labyrinth that contained both past and future and… — Jorge Luis Borges Copy Share Image
The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I want to die, stripped, by myself, of all fantasies. That's the goal. I want to feel what is real, at the… — Frank Lentricchia Copy Share Image
Paris presents one incessant round of amusement & dissipation but very little, I believe - even for its inhabitants of that society… — John Marshall Copy Share Image
To vest a few fallible men — prosecutors, judges, jurors — with vast powers of literary or artistic censorship, to convert them… — Jerome Frank Copy Share Image
Imagination inspires you to look at everything with fresh eyes, as though you had just come forth from a dark tunnel into… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
Kings ought never to be seen upon the stage. In the abstract, they are very disagreeable characters: it is only while living… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
The profession of magician, is one of the most perilous and arduous specializations of the imagination. On the one hand there is… — William Bolitho Copy Share Image
I cannot exaggerate the effect of this marvelous sight on my childish imagination. Day after day I asked myself what is electricity… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Without design thinking, the only sane response to a problem is to make a smaller, "safer" move. Smaller moves don't get you… — Marty Neumeier Copy Share Image
“They tricked me in school and marketing only made it worse. Happiness, love, wellness, success are not children of luck, things to… — Gi Young Copy Share Image
“The imagination doesn’t crop annually like a reliable fruit tree. The writer has to gather whatever’s there: sometimes too much, sometimes too… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Music education can help spark a child's imagination or ignite a lifetime of passion. When you provide a child with new worlds… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
“And then I did the best thing I knew to do with the strange concoction of sadness and hope brewing inside me.… — Amber McRee Turner Copy Share Image
The great successful men of the world have used their imagination. They think ahead and create their mental picture in all its… — Robert Collier Copy Share Image
The pupil's imagination is 'schooled' to accept service in place of value. Medical treatment is mistaken for health care, social work for… — Ivan Illich Copy Share Image
I'm interested in history because it's a discipline that requires a lot of effort from the imagination. You need to put in… — Sarnath Banerjee Copy Share Image
You're already using your imagination because you're watching fiction and then you're trying to believe that this girl who weighs 100 lbs,… — Katee Sackhoff Copy Share Image
The most fun to do in the weightlessness is going down the ladder headfirst, walking on the ceiling, chasing after M&M's that… — Marc Garneau Copy Share Image
I know there's been a lot that's been said about animated voice work, as though it's 'you can do this in your… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Diana: "I wish I were rich, and I could spend the whole summer at a hotel, eating ice cream and chicken salad."… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Because of things like 'The X Factor' and 'Autotune', the real art of communicating a song is not treasured any more. But… — Katie Melua Copy Share Image
I did spend a lot of my childhood playing out movie scenarios in my head. I'd walk along the road, pretending like… — Gerard Butler Copy Share Image
