“When I thought of myself, of the feelings I had, of the things I thought I understood so well, I imagined myself… — Gaito Gazdanov Copy Share Image
Why won't they let a year die without bringing in a new one on the instant, can't they use birth control on… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
Echoing the criticism made of his father's habilis skulls, he added that Lucy's skull was so incomplete that most of it was… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
For me, psychology and art interact and overlap in so many ways. Psychology is the study of the inner life and creativity… — Kelly Carlin-McCall Copy Share Image
The secondary Imagination I consider as an echo of the former, co-existing with the conscious will, yet still as identical with the… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
Just as the plurality of the human soul's life of imagination, feeling, and will has a focus, a center, around which it… — Valentin Tomberg Copy Share Image
Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own… — John le Carre Copy Share Image
When I was a child, I was reading books filled with people different from me, all French, all foreigners. There was a… — Laila Lalami 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
“The unforeseen is the most beautiful gift life can give us. That is what we must think of multiplying in our domain.… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
“The highest form of morality is not to feel at home in ones own home." Most great works of the imagination were… — azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
My being Indian is possibly the biggest thing that influences my stories. Not just in terms of settings - most of the… — Vandana Singh Copy Share Image
What's your story? It's all in the telling. Stories are compasses and architecture; we navigate by them, and to be without a… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“Let me stay where the sun shines ever so brightly in the sky—where I can be who I am, carefree. Boxes, boxes,… — Kim Hebert Copy Share Image
I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it,… — Tatiana Maslany Copy Share Image
Literature as a whole is not an aggregate of exhibits with red and blue ribbons attached to them, like a cat-show, but… — Northrop Frye Copy Share Image
“But life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
If you would understand this secret, you must first understand the distinction between training an animal and educating one. Trained animals are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Children live in a world of dreams and imagination, a world of aliveness… There is a voice of wonder and amazement inside… — Mike Yaconelli Copy Share Image
Charity is a cop-out so traditionally female in its apparent self-effacement that there seems resonant comfort in it. We're no longer supposed… — Jane Rule Copy Share Image
Learn to look without imagination, to listen without distortion: that is all. Stop attributing names and shapes to the essentially nameless and… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“Why? When I, myself do not believe? "Because,"explained Mary Rommely simply, "the child must have a valuable thing which is called imagination.… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
For the child whose impulsiveness is indulged, who retains his primitive-discharge mechanisms, is not only an ill-behaved child but a child whose… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me. Like the bodiless heads you see sometimes in circus sideshows, it… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
“The conscious energy of attention can be used to do literally anything because it’s a focalization of the imagination, the binding life… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Imagine: You've spent all day traipsing around London, lost in a maze of chaos, trying to find a hidden illusion; you've been… — Kevin Brooks Copy Share Image
The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination,… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
My anxiety about disasters is lower. The more you know, the less scary any of this stuff is. And that's my hope… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
“Contrary to the dogma downloaded from our many cult-like institutions of higher (actually lower) learning, we’re not in any way separate from… — Sol Luckman Copy Share Image
If your first Christmas tree is a wilting eucalyptus and if you're normally troubled by heat and sand... then, to have just… — J. R. R. Tolkien Copy Share Image
However intense my experience, I am conscious of the presence and criticism of a part of me, which, as it were, is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Pyramids, cathedrals, and rockets exist not because of geometry, theories of structures, or thermodynamics, but because they were first a picture- literally… — Eugene S. Ferguson Copy Share Image
In film, if you've got to do a scene in a swimming pool, you do a scene in a swimming pool. If… — John Tiffany Copy Share Image
As the biocentric view suggests, the garden prospers when control is balanced by equal measures of humility and benevolence. A balance is… — Jim Nollman Copy Share Image
A man may daydream of how he would spend a million dollars, but playing the same game with a billion dollars sours… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
“I have, to begin with, an incurably romantic imagination. The practice of throwing a bottle into the sea with an important document… — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Reading 'IT' again as an adult, you understand it from a different perspective. It is basically a love letter to childhood and… — Andy Muschietti Copy Share Image
As a skilled psychologist, Dr. Reznick draws from her wealth of experience to offer children and parents a treasure trove of skills… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
I've come to the conclusion that it's all about fear- fear that your kid won't come out on top, be a success.… — Deb Caletti Copy Share Image
