People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
I personally feel like certain topics and certain issues aren't really being conveyed the right way in music nowadays. It's all very… — Omarion Copy Share Image
It's easier to write about a place sometimes when you've left it, when you can apply your imagination to your memory and… — John Dufresne Copy Share Image
Restraint offers a space between intention and action and the opportunity to protect others from actions or reactions that should exist only… — Stephanie Dowrick Copy Share Image
I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep… — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature… — Shirley Geok-lin Lim Copy Share Image
“If you hate to think, you are not different from some who is peeing on his academic certificates. The goal of education… — Israelmore ayivor Copy Share Image
One of the things that Teller and I are obsessed with, one of the reasons that we're in magic, is the difference… — Penn Jillette Copy Share Image
“For an instant Harry imagined his own Mum and Dad in Azkaban with the Dementors sucking out their life, draining away the… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Creativity...involves the power to originate, to break away from the existing ways of looking at things, to move freely in the realm… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
Taking a comic strip character is very hard to write. Because comics are meant to work in one page, to work in… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
“Heaven preserve us! what a hotch-potch!” cried Hubert. “Is that what they are doing nowadays? I very seldom read a novel, but… — Henry James Copy Share Image
I don't know exactly how I end up with some of these roles. It mystifies me sometimes, but I am a fan… — Christopher Lloyd Copy Share Image
Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination. Learning to… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
In those days it was possible for a Greek to flee from an over-abundant reality as though it were but the tricky… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The age of warrior kings and of warrior presidents has passed. The nuclear age calls for a different kind of leadership… a… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
I like to build a character, trying to stretch my imagination as far to the walls of my brain as I can… — Uzo Aduba Copy Share Image
When I am no longer being copied, I shall know that I am a back number. ... the fear of being copied… — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a little kid, and I had a wild imagination, but it was something that was encouraged and… — Uzo Aduba Copy Share Image
I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and… — Thomas Bailey Aldrich Copy Share Image
In my dream the angel shrugged and said, if we fail this time, it will be a failure of imagination. And then… — Brian Andreas Copy Share Image
But what we strive to gratify, though we may call it a distant hope, is an immediate desire; the future estate for… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
I think that there was a lot of fantasy projected onto me, and that resulted in a reappropriation and re-characterization of who… — Amanda Knox Copy Share Image
Always remember deep in your heart that all is well and everything is unfolding as it should. There are no mistakes anywhere,… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
“We can, as Martha Nussbaum (2010) suggests, benefit from the enlarged and varied imagination that literature, films, and other cultural products afford… — Gloria Wekker Copy Share Image
“There are days when my imagination in my enemy. It likes to keep me company in my darkest of times and romanticizes… — Alfa H Copy Share Image
The experience of life is very bitter. it is sweet only in imagination. In its reality it is very bitter. He escaped… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
That day she put our heads together, Fate had her imagination about her, Your head so much concerned with outer, Mine with… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
But who can distinguish between falling in love and imagining falling in love? Even genuinely falling in love is an act of… — John Irving Copy Share Image
We are creatures of information and the imagination. The monkey we are already beginning to transform and shed. We don't look like… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Usually when your imagination is bigger then one's comprehension, this normally means you've out grown the small circle. Get with like-mined people… — Takina Cupp Copy Share Image
I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real… — Matthew Ashford Copy Share Image
“When a man goes back to look at the house of his childhood, it has always shrunk: There is no instance of… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I find it depressing that people think you have to be on drugs to watch [my stuff], that’s a cop out, use… — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image
The spirit's there and that's not just my imagination. I think if you look at surveys and attitudes among young people, you… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by… — Marquis de Sade Copy Share Image
[A writer is] a priest of eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life. — James Joyce Copy Share Image
Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance… — Lara St. John Copy Share Image
I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and… — Amy Sedaris Copy Share Image
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as… — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image