If it should turn out that the whole of physical reality can be described by a finite set of equations, I would… — Freeman Dyson Copy Share Image
Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
As an aspiring artist, you should strive for originality of vision. Have something to say and a fresh way of saying it.… — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal. — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The only way art lives is through the experience of the observer. The reality of art begins with the eyes of the… — Keith Haring Copy Share Image
Anyone who has set out to invent a purely imaginary story knows that the whole thing is fantasy, from beginning to end;… — Russell Smith Copy Share Image
The termination is not based on innocence or guilt, but on biology. The sociopath personality is fraudulent. They are impostors within the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is all very well, when the pen flows, but then there are the dark days when imagination deserts one, and it… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
One of the proud joys of the man of letters --if that man of letters is an artist is to feel within… — Edmond de Goncourt Copy Share Image
When I circled the moon and looked back at Earth, my outlook on life and my viewpoint of Earth changed... Earth is… — Jim Lovell Copy Share Image
The story of scientific discovery has its own epic unity-a unity of purpose and endeavour-the single torch passing from hand to hand… — Alfred Noyes Copy Share Image
But without Adolf Hitler, who was possessed of a demonic personality, a granite will, uncanny instincts, a cold ruthlessness, a remarkable intellect,… — William L. Shirer Copy Share Image
We are not just scientists, but human beings as well. Like most people we’d like to see the world a better place,… — Stephen Schneider Copy Share Image
“I can well imagine an atheist’s last words: “White, white! L-L-Love! My God!”—and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
Imagination is really dependent on memory and observation, these things that we think of as part of nonfiction writing, actually. — Elif Batuman Copy Share Image
A man who is half an idiot, but who keeps a sharp lookout and acts prudently all his life, often enjoys the… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
The writer must have a good imagination to begin with, but the imagination has to be muscular, which means it must be… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own… — Albert Ellis Copy Share Image
I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
One of my favorite things about animation is that the boundaries are as limitless as our imaginations. If we can dream it,… — Dean DeBlois Copy Share Image
Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating… — Stephen Vizinczey Copy Share Image
I want to be remembered most as a writer - one who entertained readers, and, hopefully, stretched their imagination as well. — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle. — Sarah Fielding Copy Share Image
The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm… — Julius Lester Copy Share Image
“My small torrent of words dissipated into an elaborate sense of expanding and receding. It was my entrance into the radiance of… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely… — Samantha Shannon Copy Share Image
...a distinction must be made between true and false ideas, and that too much rein must not be given to a man's… — Gottfried Leibniz Copy Share Image
The Mathematics are Friends to Religion; inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of Imagination, and purge the Mind from… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
It was not the purpose of poetry to record anything and everything, to merely describe either the outer world or some subjective… — Kathleen Raine Copy Share Image
What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“A fortress built long ago, Walls made timeless by historic glory. The small girl in the boat slows, To listen to its… — Rachel Lewis Copy Share Image
“Every repast can have soul and can be enchanting; it asks for only a small degree of mindfulness and a habit of… — Louisa Thomsen Brits Copy Share Image
A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their… — Raymond Carver Copy Share Image
But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking… — Roger McGuinn Copy Share Image
There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became… — Andrew Wyeth Copy Share Image
