It is generally allowed, that no man ever found the happiness of possession proportionate to that expectation which incited his desire, and… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“So many people along the way,whatever it is you aspire to do,will tell you it can't be done.But all it takes is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“POPULATION: None. It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
We have a duty towards music; namely to invent it. ...Invention presupposes imagination but should not be confused with it. For the… — Igor Stravinsky Copy Share Image
All my words are sort of shaped, all my words, my voice, my gestures, my imagination, are shaped by centuries, really. They… — Alice Rohrwacher Copy Share Image
A man's reputation is not in his own keeping, but lies at the mercy of the profligacy of others. Calumny requires no… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“The best thing about being a writer is the writer's imagination, which is, given the day, time, or date, either a paradise… — H.L. Sudler Copy Share Image
Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are:… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is only a short step from exaggerating what we can find in the world to exaggerating our power to remake the… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
“Our imagination so magnifies the present, because we are continually thinking about it, and so reduces eternity, because we do not think… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
To make extra money, my parents would sell eggs and chickens. I was very little. I remember a chicken's head being chopped… — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
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I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and… — Sam Raimi Copy Share Image
You named your sword Fire? Fire? What kind of a boring name is that? You might as well name your sword 'Blazing… — Christopher Paolini Copy Share Image
“For me, fantasy must be about something, otherwise it's foolishness... ultimately it must be about human beings, it must be about the… — George Clayton Johnson Copy Share Image
Not write what you know, but know what you write. If you write about a world before, after, or other than this… — Steven Saylor Copy Share Image
When I try to analyze my own cravings, motives, actions and so forth, I surrender to a sort of retrospective imagination which… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Of all the major religions, or lack thereof, the atheist's is one of the best pretenders: his foundation for all existences, as… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
A being who, as I grew older, lost imagination, emotion, a type of intelligence, a way of feeling things - all that… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
I love the necessary ambiguity of short stories - there simply isn't time to render every detail, so much of the story… — Matthew Healy Copy Share Image
Asceticism in most cases is either the result of a sordid imagination or of passion diverted from its natural course, and experience… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
“Each night he added to the pattern of his fancies until drowsiness closed down upon some vivid scene with an oblivious embrace.… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
The idea of a group of elders is that, in past civilizations, they have linked worlds; the other world was also present… — Jacques Yves Cousteau Copy Share Image
For with him the phantoms of the mind (which to the average man are merely phantoms) projected themselves with a bodily vividness… — May Sinclair Copy Share Image
Do people ever climb the demon towers? Like, for any reason?" Aline looked up. "Climb the demon towers?" She laughed. "No, no… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
I went to Europe three times, I read dozens and dozens of books, I studied thousands of photos. But I always supplemented… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
We don't experience things collectively or cathartically anymore. Viewing has become an intensely private, fetishistic, compulsive process that happens separately from others,… — Masha Tupitsyn Copy Share Image
Many prefer not to exercise their imaginations at all. They choose to remain comfortably within the bounds of their own experience, never… — J. K. Rowling Copy Share Image
When preparing for a role, a month is a luxury. Sometimes you've maybe got two weeks before you start on something. So… — Jared Harris Copy Share Image
For me, the subtlety of black and white inspires the imagination of the individual viewer to complete the picture in the mind's… — Michael Kenna Copy Share Image
I don't really know what Americans are like. I've no idea. I know a few things about them. In my imagination, they… — Sebastian Horsley Copy Share Image
The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts and expectations move, when the wind of the imagination is active, changes as… — William Hurrell Mallock Copy Share Image
Once you finish a book, it doesn't belong to you anymore. You're giving it to other people. If something in what a… — Paul Auster Copy Share Image
“The clothes you're wearing, the room, the house, the city that you're in. Everything in it started out in the human imagination.… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
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Everything becomes agitated. Ideas quick-march into motion like battalions of a grand army to its legendary fighting ground, and the battle rages.… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Looking at the sky last night and the moon in the first fresh dark, just a few stars, bright with their cold… — James Schuyler Copy Share Image
The first of our senses which we should take care never to let rust through disuse is that sixth sense, the imagination.… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
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