Panic: A highly underrated capacity thanks to which individuals are able to indicate clearly that something is wrong. Given their head, most… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
Reality is the richest thing there is, the most important thing there is. Our imagination allows us to live an artificial life… — Mario Vargas Llosa Copy Share Image
Were a man to spend only one day in Sicily and ask, "What must one see?" I would answer him without hesitation,… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
I realized the shells were talking in a voice I recognized. I should have; it was my own. Had I always known… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Worry is the product of feverish imagination working under the stimulus of desires... It is a necessary resultant of attachment to the… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
“The term entheogen proposes a radical inversion of customary attitudes towards religion as faith or as something concerned with an ultimate reality… — Daniel Waterman Copy Share Image
The Christian faith is the most exciting drama that ever staggered the imagination of man-and the dogma is the drama ... The… — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
Whether as living humans or as mythological figures, ancestors have always played an important role in the African popular and literary imagination.… — Uzodinma Iweala Copy Share Image
If there's any sort of superpower we desperately need right now, it's this transcendental force that reminds us of union and connection.… — Ezra Miller Copy Share Image
“Although Katie had this same flair for coloring an incident and Johnny himself lived in a half-dream world, yet they tried to… — Betty Smith Copy Share Image
“We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to live an… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
As a teenager, my father took me to the shows at the Architectural Association and to places like Milton Keynes back when… — Thomas Heatherwick Copy Share Image
Of all literary exercitations, whether designed for the use or entertainment of the world, there are none of so much importance, or… — William Warburton Copy Share Image
Cyborg writing must not be about the Fall, the imagination of a once-upon-a-time wholeness before language, before writing, before Man. Cyborg writing… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past ("en… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
It is the imagination pressing back against the pressure of reality. It seems, in the last analysis, to have something to do… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
I've talked to a few writers who have had childhood illnesses. The sense of convalescence - the feeling that you're waiting to… — Evie Wyld Copy Share Image
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
When a poor disconsolated drooping creature is terrified from all enjoyment,--prays without ceasing 'till his imagination is heated,--fasts and mortifies and mopes,… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“His games have a deeper meaning and fascination that adults can no longer fathom and require nothing more than three pebbles, or… — Thomas Mann Copy Share Image
As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them… — Bharati Mukherjee Copy Share Image
“People say they want to read about life but that's not what they want at all. They want a version of life.… — Andersen Prunty Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of people: one who goes on thinking about the future, not bothering about the present at all. That… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Am I crazy?" she asked. "I feel like I am sometimes." "Maybe," he said, rubbing her forehead. "But don't worry about it.… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
…Then another porpoise broke the water and rolled toward us. A third and fourth porpoise neared. The visitation was something so rare… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The intellect of most men is barren. They neither fertilize or are fertilized. It is the marriage of the soul with nature… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“I am not against playfully imagining possible decivilized worlds. But for such imaginings to be truly playful and to have experimental potential,… — Wolfi Landstreicher Copy Share Image
I was driving down a familiar road one fall day when I almost drove off the road, the beauty was so intense.… — Sheila Walsh Copy Share Image
I was reading C.S. Lewis with my mom, and she was pointing out that he was dead, and I'm like, 'What do… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
Ethiopia always has a special place in my imagination and the prospect of visiting Ethiopia attracted me more strongly than a trip… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
The art of dharma practice requires commitment, technical accomplishment, and imagination. As with all arts, we will fail to realize its full… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“ Willard Gibbs is the type of the imagination at work in the world. His story is that of an opening up… — Muriel Rukeyser Copy Share Image
I always thought that the location of this film [Girl In The Train] was on the train and inside her imagination, and… — Erin Cressida Wilson Copy Share Image
Talent is an amalgam of high sensitivity; easy vulnerability; high sensory equipment (seeing, hearing, touching, smelling, tasting intensely); a vivid imagination as… — Uta Hagen Copy Share Image
A chief cause of unhappiness is what I call mental movies. Mental movies are a misuse of the imagination. You know how… — Vernon Howard Copy Share Image
The Mathematics are Friends to Religion, inasmuch as they charm the Passions, restrain the Impetuosity of the Imagination, and purge the Mind… — John Arbuthnot Copy Share Image
“The ability to imagine is the largest part of what you call intelligence. You think the ability to imagine is merely a… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“Her mother said that three great powers kept the universe going. The first and the strongest was God. Each of the two… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
The desert came into view ... sand and palm trees, a way of life that revolved around human beings without possessions or… — Hanan al-Shaykh Copy Share Image
But she still had that something which fires the imagination, could still stop one's breath for a moment by a look or… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image