I grew up in the D.C. suburbs, and what I like about that place is that there's not a strong regional affect… — Rumaan Alam Copy Share Image
Not only is the Napoleonic dream stronger today in our imaginations than it has ever been, but one can already feel the… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
When I get an idea I start at once building it up in my imagination. I change the construction, make improvements and… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Holly is living proof that C.S. Lewis was right when he said that a good atheist can't be too careful of her… — Mark P. Shea Copy Share Image
The American citizen lives in a world where fantasy is more real than reality, where the image has more dignity than its… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
In those sticky summer nights in South London our windows stay open and our tiny apartment becomes our secret garden. The magic… — Diriye Osman Copy Share Image
For some reason I can't explain, artist and musicians tend to look younger than our age. Being in music, you need this… — Joshua Bell Copy Share Image
In a society that considers all genuine ideas subversive, which seeks to discourage ideological imagination, and which aims to abolish thought in… — Guillaume Faye Copy Share Image
Acting is a child's game. It's your willingness to suspend one reality and substitute it for another. That reality lives and breathes… — Walton Goggins Copy Share Image
MARVEL IS A CORNUCOPIA OF FANTASY, A WILD IDEA , A SWASHBUCKLING ATTITUDE , AN ESCAPE FROM THE HUMDRUM AND PROSAIC. IT'S… — Stan Lee Copy Share Image
As a kid, we had one television channel and a sad little roller rink. And there was not much else to do.… — Darby Stanchfield Copy Share Image
Canned reference is practically always loaded with problems. Photos, for example, contrive to kill imagination and stifle the natural development of creative… — Robert Genn Copy Share Image
I see a pattern, but my imagination cannot picture the maker of that pattern. I see a clock, but I cannot envision… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Despite the hundreds of attempts, police terror and the concentration camps have proved to be more or less impossible subjects for the… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
Everything around me is evaporating. My whole life, my memories, my imagination and its contents, my personality - it's all evaporating. I… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Instead of focusing on the amount of money lacking in your budget, focus on what you DO have: a willing spirit, an… — Phil Keoghan Copy Share Image
A good many of my poems over the years have alluded to or taken on the political. Stevens has a line in… — Stephen Dunn Copy Share Image
Our desires presage the capacities within us; they are harbingers of what we shall be able to accomplish. What we can do… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
They say for every light on Broadway there is a broken heart, an unrealized dream. And that’s the same in any profession.… — Sutton Foster Copy Share Image
It is a grave error for historians of literature to interpret the national spirit of the age in an oversimplified manner, ignoring… — Mieczyslaw Jastrun Copy Share Image
Unless you periodically unbind yourself from the world as it is given to you from moment to moment, you will fail to… — Peter London Copy Share Image
[My novel] took up the sweetest part of my mind and the rarest part of my imagination; it was like being in… — Muriel Spark Copy Share Image
When you have a script, and you're discussing what it can be, and who going to play what role, that's a kind… — Cary Fukunaga Copy Share Image
The Opera ghost really existed. He was not, as was long believed, a creature of the imagination of the artists, the superstition… — Gaston Leroux Copy Share Image
“Dream by all means… I still want to see every corner of the globe, paint a perfect picture and hold a star… — S.C. Vincent Copy Share Image
Without question it may be said of Vancouver that her position, geographically, is Imperial to a degree, that her possibilities are enormous,… — Homer Copy Share Image
The secret message communicated to most young people today by the society around them is that they are not needed, that the… — Alvin Toffler Copy Share Image
Any chemist reading this book can see, in some detail, how I have spent most of my mature life. They can become… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For 'Frost/Nixon,' everyone I spoke to told the story their way. Even people in the room tell different versions. There's no one… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
Your skills may not be anything out of the ordinary, but you can do miraculous things with what you've got. Maybe it's… — Chris Gardner Copy Share Image
[Math is] not at all like science. There's no experiment I can do with test tubes and equipment and whatnot that will… — Paul Lockhart Copy Share Image
“Information exists for a reason, as well as the Consciousness. The Ego and the Self are important concepts to one's character, to… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are… — James Fenimore Cooper Copy Share Image
There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
It is always the young that make the change. You don't get these ideas when you're middle-aged. Young people have daring, creativity,… — Abbie Hoffman Copy Share Image
The children would remember for the rest of their lives the august solemnity with which their father, devastated by his prolonged vigil… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
This fact was something I also learned from this first novel that I needed personal experience to invent, to fantasize, to create… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
I hope that when children read my stories that they evoke images for children. I four stories can help children use their… — Julie Andrews Copy Share Image
Millions of American women, and some men, commit that outrage every summer day. They are turning a superb treat into mere provender.… — Rex Stout Copy Share Image
Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or fuels your imagination. Devour old films, new films, music, books, paintings, photographs, poems, dreams,… — Jim Jarmusch Copy Share Image
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![“[Math is] not at all like science. There's no experiment I can do with test tubes and equipment and whatnot that will tell me the truth about a figment of my imagination. The only way to get at the truth about our imaginations is to use our imaginations...” quote by Paul Lockhart](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3e0/paul-lockhart-18353_can-do_math-is-not-at-all-like-science-there-s_140084.jpg)
