Not only did I rediscover every experience of my life, I had to live each unfulfilled desire as well—as though they’d been… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
“She preferred the quiet solitary atmosphere, to create in her own world of paint and colour, the thrill of anticipating how her… — E.A. Bucchianeri Copy Share Image
The images selected by memory are as arbitrary, as narrow, as elusive as those which the imagination had formed and reality has… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
You have a dream 35 years ago - doesn't come to fruition, but you move on with life. But it's somewhere back… — Diana Nyad Copy Share Image
“Our feelings, thoughts, beliefs and even expectations act as filters through which our imaginations initiate the process of generating our particular experienced… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
I can't even tell you what else I imagined. I can only humiliate myself to such a degree; at a certain point… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
Truth may perhaps come to the price of a pearl, that showeth best by day; but it will not rise to the… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
My mind has touched the farthest horizons of mortal imagination and reaches ever outward to embrace infinity. There is no knowledge beyond… — Susan Kay Copy Share Image
I think the best thing a person can do is to read through the Gospels in the Bible and really look at… — Donald Miller Copy Share Image
“I dedicate this book to all of you Guardians of Ga'hoole readers who have become like citizens in my imaginary world. Imagination… — Kathryn Lasky Copy Share Image
We're born into a certain family, nation, class. But if we have no connection whatsoever with the worlds beyond the one we… — Elif Safak Copy Share Image
Writing is not a job or activity. Nor do I sit at a desk writing for inspiration to strike. Writing is like… — John Marsden Copy Share Image
The force of what was called Panther rhetoric or word mongering resided not in elegant discourse but in strength of affirmation (or… — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather,… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
“Anything you imagine (inner world)will materialize into your life (outer world). It's speed of materializing is determined by how much feeling and… — Franklin Gillette Copy Share Image
"What is my job on the planet?" is one question we might do well to ask ourselves over and over again. Otherwise,… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“On both sides we encounter the idea that the Godhead possesses the power of Imagination, and that by imagining the universe God… — Henry Corbin Copy Share Image
I think music took hold of me and captured my imagination at such a formative age that I ascribe a mysteriousness to… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
“Imagination, she figured, just wasn't up to the task of understanding unique and foreign sensations. It only knew how to dampen or… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
“When we want to awaken a thought in anyone, what are the means at our disposal? One only, to produce in him… — Antonin Sertillanges Copy Share Image
More investment trusts securities were offered in September of 1929 even than in August - the total was above $600 million. However,… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“We must have imagination, awakened by the uncertainty of being able to attain our object, to create a goal which hides our… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Authors, she soon decided, were probably best met within the pages of their novels, and were as much creatures of the reader's… — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
“It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine. It's just as Yeats said: In dreams begin… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
If you look at the last 150 years, about every 30 years or so, a new scientific discipline emerges that starts spinning… — Paul Saffo Copy Share Image
“How is it done? By not doing. By dreaming insistently. By performing our daily duties but living, simultaneously, in the imagination. Travelling… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I love young adult fantasies. While I say that, I have not seen all of the Twilight and Harry Potter movies. But… — Viola Davis Copy Share Image
“Emily’s world fascinates and disturbs: in it you can touch thick Yorkshire speech, and moorland rain slants across your mind with a… — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
“And when the Duke of Alva ordered three hundred Citizens to be put to Death together at Antwerp, a Lady who saw… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
The works of a person that begin immediately to decay, while those of him who plants begin directly to improve. In this,… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
Muses are fickle, and many a writer, peering into the voice, has escaped paralysis by ascribing the creative responsibility to a talisman:… — Anne Fadiman Copy Share Image
“This is why a woman makes things up: Because when she dies, those lives she never got to are all going down… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
The very names assigned to angels by their Creator, convey to us ideas pre-eminently pleasing, fitted to captivate the heart, and exalt… — Timothy Dwight V Copy Share Image
Maybe there's a sense that technology isn't necessarily the answer to a lot of our problems. Fantasy offers readers a less radically… — Lev Grossman Copy Share Image
Through intense deep meditation you reach a state that is beyond thought, beyond change, beyond imagination, beyond differences and duality. Once you… — Swami Muktananda Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter if people are playing jazz or writing poetry -- if they want to be successful, they need to learn… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Children know that if they have a question about the world, the library is the place to find the answer. And someone… — Laura Bush Copy Share Image
I talk about going to his [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
![“I talk about going to his [George W. Bush's] Inauguration and crying when he took the oath, 'cause I was so afraid he was going to "wreck the economy and muck up the drinking water"... the failure of my pessimistic imagination at that moment boggles my mind now.” quote by Sarah Vowell](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/8d7/sarah-vowell-2016_causes_i-talk-about-going-to-his-george-w-bush_1287893.jpg)
