To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When I have something to say that I think will be too difficult for adults, I write it in a book for… — Madeleine L'Engle Copy Share Image
Formerly I believed books were made like this: a poet came, lightly opened his lips, and the inspired fool burst into song… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“All life is death. You don't fool yourself about this anymore. You slash at the perfect canvas with strokes of paint and… — M. Rickert Copy Share Image
In order to become soundly virtuous, it is advisable to make good practical resolutions concerning particular acts of the virtues and to… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
I have loved you in every manner that my imagination could contrive. I have wanted you so deeply that my body sang… — Nick Bantock Copy Share Image
“To make this journey, we'll need imagination but imagination alone is not enough because the reality of nature is far more wondrous… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The more I study Nature, the more I become impressed with ever-increasing force that the contrivances and beautiful adaptations slowly acquired through… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“FICTION is a series of unintended coincidence,confabulation,and quasi-lucid lying made plausible enough for an author and a reader to cohabitate for a… — J.D. Brayton Copy Share Image
If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
“The wheels of the cars stormed underneath. Woods and pastures ran up and receded, the rails of sidings sheathed in rust, the… — Saul Bellow Copy Share Image
“Do you imagine --" Mr. Lorry had begun, when Miss Pross took him up short with: "Never imagine anything. Have no imagination… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
To go out in a gondola at night is to reconstruct in one's imagination the true Venice, the Venice of the past… — Peggy Guggenheim Copy Share Image
Soil is a resource, a living, breathing entity that, if treated properly, will maintain itself. It's our lifeline for survival. When it… — Marjorie Harris Copy Share Image
I found something" Simon said as he walked in. He whipped out an old-fashioned key from his pocket and grinned at me.… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I… — Jane Campion 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
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
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
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
Imagination is a valuable asset in business and she has a sister, Understanding, who also serves. Together they make a splendid team… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
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
“Like it or not, we’re doomed or blessed—depending on your perspective—to inhabit an eternally looping circuit that involves our thoughts, innermost desires,… — Sol Luckman 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
Learn to live without self concern. For this you must know your own true being as indomitable, fearless and ever victorious. Once… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
For the 99 percent of the time we've been on Earth, we were hunter and gatherers, our lives dependent on knowing the… — Janine Benyus 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
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
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
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 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
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
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
“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 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
