I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination.… — Amelie Nothomb Copy Share Image
One can't write a weird story of real power without perfect psychological detachment from the human scene, and a magic prism of… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
I believe in intuition and inspiration. Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited, whereas imagination embraces the entire world,… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Anya made you kiss her? Yeah. And at our next stop, I'll expect you to deliver. I'll pay, William piped up. After… — Gena Showalter Copy Share Image
Why could she remember nothing but stories of frightened people when Capricorn looked at her? She usually found it so easy to… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
I don't think it's good to achieve too much at too early an age. What else can the future give you if… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Writing fiction is an inherently political activity because people-even imaginary ones-do not live in vacuums... From Twilight to Romeo and Juliet to… — John Green Copy Share Image
One of the big misconceptions is that affairs or trysts are flings about sex. And sometimes they are, but much more often… — Esther Perel Copy Share Image
If you are lucky as an actor, you are doing a character that really matches where you are in life, or you're… — Scott Cohen Copy Share Image
“Gates got up, but not fast or jerkily, with the same slowness that had always characterized him. He wiped the sweat off… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
It was a really strange experience. It was very creative for Alejandro Amenábar. It was almost like it was the most I… — Ethan Hawke Copy Share Image
“But when fundamentals are doubted, as at present, we must try to recover the candour and wonder of the child; the unspoilt… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
...So please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. We do not lack imagination, nor have… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Writing is not a searching about in the daily experience for apt similes and pretty thoughts and images… It is not a… — William Carlos Williams Copy Share Image
The imagination is the medium of appreciation in every field. The engagement of the imagination is the only thing that makes any… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
“Never surrender your hopes and dreams to the fateful limitations others have placed on their own lives. The vision of your true… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
The tiny space, the toilet, two hundred strangers just a few inches away, it's so exciting, the lack of room to maneuver,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
It is quite amazing how hard the subconscious works when it is made to understand that this life is not a rehearsal,… — John Burdett Copy Share Image
In order to execute the idea, you need a certain material that is going to allow you to do what you're challenged… — Michelle Stuart Copy Share Image
Instead of looking at our challenges and limitations as something negative or bad, we can begin to look at them as blessings,… — Amy Purdy Copy Share Image
“Transcendental artists are messengers. Their symbolic vocabulary originates from the infinite wisdom of higher spheres, in a non-referential time/space continuum... the way… — ELLE NICOLAI Copy Share Image
Imagination can't create anything new, can it? It only recycles bits and pieces from the world and reassembles them into visions... So… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
“I didn't know the value of creation until I did it. Once I tasted imagination, I knew that I was trapped. I… — Lionel Suggs Copy Share Image
I do think that science fiction ideas are best expressed through visual media like film and TV. Realist literature depicts things that… — Liu Cixin Copy Share Image
Just take one thing out and the whole palace, the whole edifice of the human mind collapses. Take effort out of it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The essence of our profession is to give. What is it that we in the theater give? We give our body, voice,… — Michael Chekhov Copy Share Image
In voicing so much is left to your imagination to create the world around you like that. It's really the essence of… — Jim Parsons Copy Share Image
The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through… — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
When you write a song about a place, you are writing a song about a place that might be in a hundred… — Justin Vernon Copy Share Image
Those who follow the banners oreason are like the well-disciplined battalions which, wearing a more sober uniform and making a less dazzling… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
“I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what… — Colm Tóibín Copy Share Image
Anything other than free enterprise always means a society of compulsion and lower living standards, and any form of socialism strictly enforced… — Llewellyn Rockwell Copy Share Image
I shall discuss the broad patterns of hominoid evolution, an exercise made enjoyable by the need to integrate diverse kinds of information,… — David Pilbeam Copy Share Image
“There are moments in your life that, when you look back at them, you realize were perfect. A hundred million things had… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
Well, that's why smart people get tripped up with worry and fear. Worry...fear...is just a misuse of the creative imagination that has… — Andy Andrews Copy Share Image
“I explained that most great works of the imagination were meant to make you feel like a stranger in your own home.… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
“Isn't it splendid to think of all the things there are to find out about? It just makes me glad to be… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination projected onto wood and water and rock. It is... difficult to… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
“A fantasy is something produced in the imagination, allowing you to indulge in a thought life that is very different from what… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Not everyone is fortunate enough to earn their living playing. But what draws people to art and artists is a desire to… — Howard Jacobson Copy Share Image
