the curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low,… — Gertrude Atherton Copy Share Image
No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
If ever Shakespeare rants, it is not when his imagination is hurrying him along, but when he is hurrying his imagination along. — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
There are real facts in my poems, but facts mixed up in the perverse stubborn stew of imagination, add a pinch or… — Philip Schultz Copy Share Image
“For an instant Harry imagined... Just for an instant, before his imagination blew a fuse and called an emergency shut down and… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Human beings are just way more complex than they'd like to be. They like to be simple machines. And they'll set up… — Nell Zink Copy Share Image
...If you work hard enough and assert yourself, and use your mind and imagination, you can shape the world to your desires. (151) — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Fear is not real. The only place that fear can exist, is in our thoughts of the future. Its a product of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the parallel narrative of our fantasy lives. How the moment of 'now' that is palpably real, is surrounded by… — Dave McKean Copy Share Image
You can say the president's private life takes up so much of his time that he doesn't focus on his job, so… — Tony Goldwyn Copy Share Image
In this great nation of saints and poets, public administrators and ingenious architects, has our national and local imagination shrunk so much… — Rohini Nilekani Copy Share Image
My fictional worlds were those of a fabulist, of an intellectual fantasist. I was the lawgiver, and the countries and inhabitants of… — Norman Lock Copy Share Image
“You are lucky to be one of those people who wishes to build sand castles with words, who is willing to create… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
I mean, it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, 'I've got this great game of… — Max Irons Copy Share Image
What is it that we in the theatre give? Instead of images on canvas or in the form of statuary or music,… — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing,… — Andrew Motion Copy Share Image
I'm really the addition of other peoples' imagination, quite honestly. It's what they see me as, and I'm very happy to comply.… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
Some kids don't want to be organized all the time. They want to let their imaginations run; they want to see where… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
Imagination is a very precise thing, you know - it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was… — Jacques Lipchitz Copy Share Image
DAISY: I never knew you were such a realist-I thought you were more poetic. Where's your imagination? There are many sides to… — Eugene Ionesco Copy Share Image
One of the great things about cartoons is that they're not real - you're not watching real people and it engages your… — Tim Daly Copy Share Image
“It takes curiosity to find your call to adventure, it takes courage to venture into the unknown, and it takes imagination to… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
“He who has the audacity to stop you from dreaming is he who had given you the imaginations to think, but not… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The human intellect owes its superiority over that of the lower animals in great measure to the stimulus which alcohol has given… — Samuel Butler Copy Share Image
None of us can predict when the causes we support will capture the public imagination, and our once-lonely quests become popular crusades. — Paul Rogat Loeb Copy Share Image
The great thing about a record is it frees your imagination; it gives your eyes a rest and lets your mind wander.… — Henry Mancini Copy Share Image
“From imagination comes our vision of the world, our vision of our future, and most importantly our vision of ourselves, who we… — Devdutt Pattanaik Copy Share Image
Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic. — George Steiner Copy Share Image
“Don’t let your idea of God be limited to the imagination of others. Don’t let them define your God and don’t let… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
I wouldn't say I have comedy chops. I guess you get lucky with good writing because I don't think I'm a comedian… — Michael Pena Copy Share Image
“Kellyanne opened the car door and crawled into my bedroom. Her face was puffy and pale and fuzzed-over. She just came in… — Ben Rice Copy Share Image
And habits are hell's own substitute for good intentions. Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative , of imagination. They're the… — Dorothy Dunnett Copy Share Image
Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
As surely as the bullet rips through the victim's flesh, organ and bone, it shatters the image of the man who pulls… — Paritoshik Sharma Copy Share Image
“Imagination just wasn't up to the task of understanding unique and foreign sensations. It knew only how to dampen or augment what… — Hugh Howey Copy Share Image
We are all living in a techno-dystopian fantasy, the Internet-connected portals we rely on rendering the world in all its granular detail… — Thomas Chatterton Williams Copy Share Image
It's certainly not a shock to find that the industry has no imagination. I think people don't know what it is I… — Nathan Lane Copy Share Image
“When I am alone, I drink my tea with pinkie raised, like a kid playing "tea party." At times, a fancy British… — Christy Hall Copy Share Image
