As the idea imparted by the term Cataclysm, Catastrophe, or Revolution, is extremely vague, and may comprehend any thing you choose to… — George Julius Poulett Scrope Copy Share Image
Composition is a process of combination, in which thought puts together complementary truths, and talent fuses into harmony the most contrary qualities… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
If we imagine an observer to approach our planet from outer space, and, pushing aside the belts of red-brown clouds which obscure… — Eduard Suess Copy Share Image
“A critical piece of holistic self-becoming involves the deeply felt realization that our thoughts, beliefs and intentions aren’t merely mental or ‘just… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
Where love exists with self-respect and joy, where a fine environment is provided for the child, where the parents live under conditions… — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
“When the imagination is not controlled and the attention not steadied on the feeling of the wish fulfilled, then no amount of… — Neville Copy Share Image
...I don't see myself as a documentary photographer. I am more drawn to the image itself, rather than to the description of… — Beat Streuli Copy Share Image
Light enhances but its shadow deletes, thus giving the picture its depth, its third dimension and its subtractive properties... I believe that… — Augusto De Luca Copy Share Image
“Any artist is insulted by the suggestion that art is merely a matter of recording reality, and knows that it is impossible… — Joan Lindsay Copy Share Image
I've often tried to describe how memory works. I've suggested this to students, and told them to close their eyes and try… — Lore Segal Copy Share Image
When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
“She imagined all the mothers of the unnamed children, imagined the ad cut from the paper, a mother writing her child’s name… — Douglas Weissman Copy Share Image
“As the virtual world of electronic communication becomes the world many of us inhabit all the time, in turning to imaginative literature… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“There's a great difficulty in making choices if you have any imagination at all. Faced with such a multitude of desireable choices,… — John Barth Copy Share Image
The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for… — Virginia Postrel Copy Share Image
“To write is to carve a new path through the terrain of the imagination, or to point out new features on a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“When the artist leaves a painting on a wall with the full confidence that the mastery of his skill, soul and vision… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
Some imaginations help to break the bondage of the rest. The whole universe is imagination, but one set of imaginations will cure… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
For me, as I've said many times, the story is not research. The story is how the characters relate with each other… — Uwem Akpan Copy Share Image
I guess what attracted me about the philosophy aspect was that it was realistic. It didn't go off into the realm of… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Love the battle between chaos and imagination. Remember: Acting is living truthfully in imaginary circumstances. Remember: Acting is the way to live… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
There is no such thing as experience here. You seem to know, you imagine. Imagination must come to an end...I don't know… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Imagination is what providence uses to take men captive in actuality, in existence, in order to get them far enough out, or… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
In mature years I have always been gregarious, a lover of my kind, dependent upon the company of friends for the very… — Edmund Gosse Copy Share Image
The idea of implanting memories where by the implantee couldn't tell the difference between a real experience and a fantasy experience was… — Colin Farrell Copy Share Image
“Before cruelly vilifying them from a great height, the mudslingers at newspapers and journals should bear in mind that all artistic endeavors… — Felix J Palma Copy Share Image
“His youth reappeared, bringing with it all those sweet souvenirs which are rather perfumes than thoughts. Between that past and the present… — Alexandre Dumas Copy Share Image
To witness that calm rhythm of life revives our worn souls and recaptures a feeling of belonging to the natural world. No… — George Schaller Copy Share Image
The empire of Saturnus is gone by; Lord of the secret birth of things is he; Within the lap of earth, and… — Friedrich Schiller Copy Share Image
“An old dream with a shiny new veneer. It's fascinating, you know, how an obsolete madness is sometimes adopted and stylized in… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image
“It's not enough for us to mourn and resist the suffering and oppression of 2SLGBTQIA+ folks. We must also dare to imagine… — Jamie Arpin-Ricci Copy Share Image
'The green beret' is again becoming a symbol of excellence, a badge of courage, a mark of distinction in the fight for… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
“Rejoice, Micayon. Yours is a prophet’s dream. The Great Nostalgia has made your world too small, and made you a stranger in… — Mikhail Naimy Copy Share Image
O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud--what… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination,… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
We hand the meat over to Greasy Sae in the kitchen. She likes District 13 well enough, even though she thinks the… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Thus metaphysics and mathematics are, among all the sciences that belong to reason, those in which imagination has the greatest role. I… — Jean le Rond d'Alembert Copy Share Image
Daisy was a consciously happy young woman without any of the usual endowments that make for conscious happiness, money apart. She was… — Laura Riding Copy Share Image
