Imagination seems to be a glory and a misery, a blessing and a curse. Adam, to his sorrow, lacked it. Eve, to… — Stella Benson Copy Share Image
Lemberger's stories are marvelous compounds of scholarship, imagination and empathy. Brought to life with rich historical detail, these biblical women, sidelined and… — Michelle Huneven Copy Share Image
But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the… — Brenda Ueland Copy Share Image
My childhood dreams and fantasies came from the movies. The images created in Hollywood had a major influence on my life. Helping… — Hugh Hefner Copy Share Image
I think, is wonderful about growing older, is appreciation for the miracle of existence, of life. I thank God every day. I… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
That in these times every serious person should not in his heart have felt some difliculty with the doctrines of the incarnation,… — James Anthony Froude Copy Share Image
The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes… — Michael Foley Copy Share Image
This is the way of meditation: encountering the present in all its tremendous beauty, just being in the present. Inside, the mind… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Prayer is the highest form, the supreme act of the Creative Imagination. ... For prayer is not a request for something: it… — Henry Corbin Copy Share Image
A nervous excitability, a chronic exaltation of the passion, in which commingle the inferior life of the individual and its exterior manifestations,… — Kadmi Cohen Copy Share Image
Sculpture and painting are very justly called liberal arts; a lively and strong imagination, together with a just observation, being absolutely necessary… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
“10. Never allow your imagination to stop. It was the imagination of great people that brought us the internet, the pyramids, cars,… — Tasha Hoggatt Copy Share Image
“The fantastic postulates that there are forces in the outside world, and in our own natures, which we can neither know nor… — Franz Rottensteiner Copy Share Image
If we go back to the beginnings of things, we shall always find that ignorance and fear created the gods; that imagination,… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
I think at the moment we did not even want to break the seal [on the inner chamber of the tomb of… — Howard Carter Copy Share Image
Human history, like all great movements, was cyclical, and returned to the point of beginning. The idea of indefinite progress in a… — Edward Bellamy Copy Share Image
When a man acts in ways that annoy us we wish to think him wicked, and we refuse to face the fact… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
I don't hold animals superior or even equal to humans. The whole case for behaving decently to animals rests on the fact… — Brigid Brophy Copy Share Image
There are only two worlds - your world, which is the real world, and other worlds, the fantasy. Worlds like this are… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Only curiosity about the fate of others, the ability to put ourselves in their shoes, and the will to enter their world… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
We were born with a natural tendency to focus on love. Our imaginations were creative and flourishing, and we knew how to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like… — Bruce Springsteen Copy Share Image
“Critics do not have the satisfaction of working on things that actually exist, like sick dogs or dental cavities. So they are… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Often there are two different reasons given for this natural desire to simplify. First is that we as humans have a very… — Vlatko Vedral Copy Share Image
I love video games. I'm also slightly in awe of them. I'm in awe of their power in terms of imagination, in… — Tom Chatfield Copy Share Image
Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek… — James Russell Lowell Copy Share Image
“I’d loved women who were old and who were young; those extra kilos and large rumps, and others so thin there was… — Roman Payne Copy Share Image
“...the imagination works not so much through inspiration as through perseverance. One must slog through the false starts, spot the wrong words… — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
The dream you are living is your creation. It is your perception of reality that you can change at any time. You… — Miguel Angel Ruiz Copy Share Image
But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I long to embrace, to include in my own short life, all that is accessible to man. I long to speak, to… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
When I was a young boy, I loved spending hours in St. Franics Xavier's school library at Saint Louis University. The feel… — William Lacy Clay, Jr Copy Share Image
“So he closed his eyes and imagined Artimé, the way it had been, he way he wanted it to be again. His… — Lisa McMann Copy Share Image
That which men suppose the imagination to be, and to do, is often frivolous enough and mischievous enough; but that which God… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Another reason I think the novel will survive is that the reader has to work in a novel. In a film, you… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
If one has to conform to a certain taste, he/she might lose his/her own individuality and imagination. But if you don't really… — George Li Copy Share Image
When you read a book [The Hunger Games], you create that tonal bandwidth. You set a tone for yourself, as you're reading… — Nina Jacobson Copy Share Image
Some persons are exaggerators by temperament. They do not mean untruth, but their feelings are strong, and their imaginations vivid, so that… — Tryon Edwards Copy Share Image
I believe in a passionately strong feeling for the poetry of life - for the beautiful, the mysterious, the romantic, the ecstatic… — Leopold Stokowski Copy Share Image
'The Lord of the Rings,' published in the mid-1950s, was intended as a prehistory to our own world. It was perceived by… — Peter Jackson Copy Share Image
![“I think at the moment we did not even want to break the seal [on the inner chamber of the tomb of Tutankhamen], for a feeling of intrusion had descended heavily upon us... We felt that we were in the presence of the dead King and must do him reverence, and in imagination could see the doors of the…” quote by Howard Carter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d9/howard-carter-27604_break_i-think-at-the-moment-we-did-not-even-wa_166704.jpg)
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