I guess I'm interested in the behind-the-surface feelings of the human condition, in my own way. I was always struck by the… — Signe Baumane Copy Share Image
The pilasters reaching down were adorned with a glistering substance (I know not what) under glass (as it seemed), resembling - a… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
“Imagination is the politics of dreams. Imagine an escape. Imagine that your own shadow on the wall is a perfect door. Imagine… — Sherman Alexie Copy Share Image
Over-scheduling their child's time, far from improving their lives, actually damages them. Scheduling an hour of free time strengthens their imagination. When… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
“I have a really vivid imagination and I find it difficult to read scenes of complete graphic violence. That's not to say… — Sara Sheridan Copy Share Image
To gaze into the depths of the sea is, in the imagination, like beholding the vast unknown, and from its most terrible… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The close observer soon discovers that the teacher's task is not to implant facts but to place the subject to be learned… — Nathan M. Pusey Copy Share Image
“A man vows, and yet will not east away the means of breaking his vow. Is it that he distinctly means to… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
“As an artist, i live in fantasy and flirt with reality. I'm an emotional magician of sorts. I paint my feelings onto… — Jaeda DeWalt Copy Share Image
Nothing more powerfully excites any affection than to conceal some part of its object, by throwing it into a kind of shade,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“In the midst of the vagaries of life, they provide us a trip to the land of goodness and fairies, of imaginations… — Sanhita Baruah Copy Share Image
“The great thinkers have long pointed to a connection between creativity and happiness. "Happiness," Kant once said, "is an ideal not of… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
There can be little question that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaintance with its laws, than upon practice and natural… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Competition is. In every business, no matter how small or how large, someone is just around the corner forever trying to steal… — Alice Foote MacDougall Copy Share Image
I definitely gravitate towards quality genre projects and genre of any kind whether it's science fiction, horror or really anything. I'm just… — Emma Caulfield Copy Share Image
While the fashion industry may, at least at the top end, be thriving, the notion of fashion itself is becoming more and… — Rebecca Mead Copy Share Image
I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research… — Amy Waldman Copy Share Image
A fiction which is designed to inculcate an object wholly alien to the imagination sins against the first law of art; and… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
I think the secret of great acting is that you have to bring your imagination to the party. You have to have… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
The whole, though it be long, stands almost complete and finished in my mind so that I can survey it at a… — Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart Copy Share Image
I feel really strongly about not wanting to overly guide the reader about what he or she should think. I really trust… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
Doubt is a profound and effective spiritual motivation. Without doubt, no truism is transcended, no new knowledge found, no expansion of the… — James Hollis Copy Share Image
“I have dreamed of that song, of the strange words to that simple rhyme-song, and on several occasions I have understood what… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Actually, the suburbs are far more sinister places than most city dwellers imagine. Their very blandness forces the imagination into new areas.… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
To say that such-and-such a circumstance is 'Kafkaesque' is to admit to the denigration of an imagination that has burned a hole… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Everyone has options. They are a fixed set of predetermined scenarios, points of view, perceived limitations that already reside in your data… — Nicholas Lore Copy Share Image
Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a… — Alexander Rodchenko Copy Share Image
When this immediate evil power has been defeated, we shall not yet have won the long battle with the elemental barbarities. Another… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
How to avoid cliche at the root of conception? Practice sincerity. If we've come by ... material honestly, through our own personal… — Peter Selgin Copy Share Image
Any individual or society that fails to honor or provide the opportunity for women to fully exert their power can never truly… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
“By projecting his psyche into the stone he gave the stone life, identity, consciousness, doing what the alchemists did as they gazed… — Anthony Stevens Copy Share Image
The most unhappy people in the world are those who face the days without knowing what to do with their time. But… — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Not only does social life demand teaching and learning for its own permanence, but the very process of living together educates. It… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
There are stories within stories, whispered in the quiet of the night, shouted above the roar of the day, and played out… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Making movie you just think, well, you know what you're gonna do, and you just when it comes down to the very… — Wayne Coyne Copy Share Image
“I don’t want to see landscapes, i.e. scenic paintings of them, because I don’t want to see the original realities – as… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook… — Graham Joyce Copy Share Image
Of the total creative effort represented in a finished work, 75 percent or more of a writer's labor goes into designing the… — Robert McKee Copy Share Image
I don't have a lot of experience to draw from. I had my first kiss when I was 17 or 18. The… — Jon Heder Copy Share Image
It can be demonstrated that the child's contact with the real world is strengthened by his periodic excursions into fantasy. It becomes… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
