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
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
The ability to discern the thoughts and motives of your heart (especially when experiencing intense emotion) is an essential skill for the… — Lou Priolo Copy Share Image
I have been asked, Many Times, In many different ways, All of my life, Are you real? I have indeed pondered this… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
“When I first began to explore the nature of the mind professionally, there was no term in our everyday language that captured… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Many calls to adventure are puzzles waiting to be solved. Anyone can apply, but the price of admission is paid in imagination.… — Sean Patrick Copy Share Image
Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a… — Walter Gropius Copy Share Image
There's a fine line between imagination and reality. An inventor dreams something up, and pretty soon, it's there on the table before… — Ridley Pearson Copy Share Image
“The lonely little dicky bird, without a shred of shame, perched precariously on a weathered branch. He paid no heed to the… — Michella Augusta Copy Share Image
…tell me your dreams What could they be? Whether nightmares or horrors or fantasies to see???? What are they made of? Do… — Fatima Fatimzahra Copy Share Image
“It's life's failure and its deficiencies that make someone a daydreamer. I don't understand why prophets and philosophers didn't see the significance… — Shokoofeh Azar Copy Share Image
It is so rare...to find a complete person, with a soul, a heart and an imagination; so rare for characters as ardent… — Hector Berlioz Copy Share Image
Conversation as talent exists only in France. In other countries, conversation provides politeness, discussion, and friendship; in France, it is an art… — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
Five golden years, Heart of Mine, have we walked the way of life together, and there is not an hour I would… — Myrtle Reed 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
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
From this height the sleeping city seems like a child's construction, a model which has refused to be constrained by imagination. The… — Ian Rankin Copy Share Image
All during the day, in the chinks of time between the things we find ourselves obliged to do, there are the moments… — Frank Laubach Copy Share Image
To suppose that the eye with all its inimitable contrivances for adjusting the focus to different distances, for admitting different amounts of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
This, therefore, is a faded dream of the time when I went down into the dust and noise of the Eastern market-place,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of… — Dweezil Zappa Copy Share Image
“The truth is that what fascinates me is not so much being in a place as not being there: how places live… — Siri Hustvedt Copy Share Image
It's hard to say when my interest in writing began, or how. My mother read to my sister and me every night,… — Sara Zarr Copy Share Image
The pursuit of science has often been compared to the scaling of mountains, high and not so high. But who amongst us… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I change many things, discard others, and try again and again until I am satisfied; then, in my head, I being to… — Ludwig van Beethoven Copy Share Image
India has millions of internally displaced people. And now, they are putting their bodies on the line and fighting back. They are… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
I was very withdrawn and definitely played with dolls well into eighth grade. But I was the oldest of nine, and that… — Susan Sarandon Copy Share Image
“Osborn was a founding partner of the advertising agency Batten, Barton, Durstine, and Osborn (BBDO), but it was as an author that… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
The law is meant to work for justice. But people who know themselves know that, at some point, justice had better be… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Edmund doesn’t solve any of his grievances or personality disorders by going through the wardrobe. If anything, they're exacerbated and brought to… — Levi Grossman Copy Share Image
“Nowhere does Niemeyer set out a specific aesthetic. In “The Autonomous Man” he notes that the imagination can be used for good… — Gregory Wolfe Copy Share Image
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analagous to a good country breakfast: what we want… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
When he painted a road, the roadmakers were there in his imagination, when he painted the turned earth of a ploughed field,… — John Berger Copy Share Image
The finest imagination in the world could not have conceived of a better idea than the philosophers' stone to inspire the minds… — Justus von Liebig Copy Share Image
You have a curious way of arousing one's imagination, stimulating all one's nerves, and making one's pulses beat faster. You put an… — Leopold von Sacher-Masoch Copy Share Image
Running! If there's any activity happier, more exhilarating, more nourishing to the imagination, I can't think what it might be. In running… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
“It’s no secret that we all live within a damning illusion called denial. We are doomed by our own far-reaching imaginations and… — Christopher Hawke Copy Share Image
Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals,… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
