“We all say we want our kids to be happy, only happy, and healthy, but we don't want that. We want them… — Hanya Yanagihara Copy Share Image
... some veil between childhood and the present is necessary. If the veil is withdrawn, the artistic imagination sickens and dies, the… — Margaret Mead Copy Share Image
“But in exchange for what our imagination leads us to expect and we give ourselves so much futile trouble trying to find,… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Stick to the script like paper clips and coffee stains Never let a seed of doubt deter you from your lofty aims… — Jay Electronica Copy Share Image
I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination.… — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
Is it not a great temptation to be so valiant in imagination and so cowardly in execution? — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination. — Anna Godbersen Copy Share Image
How good are the best musical imaginations? Can a trained musician, swiftly reading a score, tell just how that voicing of dissonant… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“When there is silence, Give your voice. When there is darkness, Shine your light. When there is desperation, Offer hope.” — Tim Fargo Copy Share Image
I think fiction is all about the exercise of the empathetic imagination. Part of what I do is let the stuff I… — Jim Shepard Copy Share Image
There would be far less suffering in the world if human beings-God knows why they are made like this-did not use their… — Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe Copy Share Image
A thousand fearful images and dire suggestions glance along the mind when it is moody and discontented with itself. Command them to… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Philosophers, if they have much imagination, are apt to let it loose as well as other people, and in such cases are… — Granville Penn Copy Share Image
Human life--that appeared to him the one thing worth investigating. Compared to it there was nothing else of any value. It was… — Oscar Wilde 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
Experience teaches that when the will and imagination are in conflict, the imagination usually wins. What we imagine may defeat our reason… — Joseph B. Wirthlin Copy Share Image
“Maybe everyone does have a novel in them, perhaps even a great one. I don't believe it, but for the purposes of… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
“To love at a distance and without hope; never to possess; to dream chastely of pale charms and impossible kisses extinguished on… — Huysmans Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
We have ... dreamed so much and observed so little, that our imaginations have grown larger than the world we live in,… — Frances Wright Copy Share Image
It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block. — Paul Gauguin Copy Share Image
We are seeing, then, that our experience is altogether momentary. From one point of view, each moment is so elusive and so… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
