Through books you will meet poets and novelists whose creations will fire your imagination. You will meet the great thinkers who will… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
If there's one thing I feel very strongly about, it's that there shouldn't be a distinction between pianists who play Ligeti and… — Jeremy Denk Copy Share Image
“The revolution that counts is the one that takes place in the imagination; many kinds of change issue forth thereafter, some gradual… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
In my perfect imagination, with stern discipline I rise with the first bird, salute the dawn, have a healthy breakfast of fruits,… — Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor Copy Share Image
“Many people would have to hang by their teeth from a frayed cord suspended by a paper clip from a leaking hot… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an… — Andy Hertzfeld Copy Share Image
Everything that I see must become personal; otherwise, it is dead and mechanical. Our only chance to escape the blight of mechanization,… — Clarence John Laughlin Copy Share Image
“Velvet carpet," sighed Anne luxuriously, "and silk curtains! I've dreamed of such things, Diana. But do you know I don't believe I… — L.M. Montgomery Copy Share Image
How was it that he haunted her imagination so persistently? What could it be? Why did she care for what he thought,… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
“The creative act is a letting down of the net of human imagination into the ocean of chaos on which we are… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to me As… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
When we think back at our youth, we always remember the feeling of freedom... that you actually believe in the world. Even… — Daniel Espinosa Copy Share Image
That experience of touching down in a totally foreign place is like having a blank canvas: You begin with nothing, but stroke… — Edwidge Danticat Copy Share Image
“After my mom died she ate my father up completely. She would have hated it. Every minute of his life since then… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
“It is inconceivable that any form of intelligence would waste so much time and effort to make such an inferior piece of… — Joseph Lewis Copy Share Image
One of the most dangerous errors is that civilization is automatically bound to increase and spread. The lesson of history is the… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“With what characters she had filled this lost stage of emptiness! It was here that she would see the people of her… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
The necessity of loyalty between friends, the responsibility that the strong owe the infirm, the illusion of ill-gotten gain, the rewards of… — Michael Dorris Copy Share Image
Since I write the lyrics, I don't want to be pigeonholed into a person who's out there preaching these songs. If you… — Linda Perry Copy Share Image
The law of attraction says there are no limits and anything is possible. Your imagination has no limits, and anything is possible… — Rhonda Byrne Copy Share Image
My father used to tell me that stories offer the listener a chance to escape but, more importantly, he said, they provide… — Tahir Shah Copy Share Image
Good conversation can leave you more exhilarated than alcohol; more refreshed than the theater or a concert. It can bring you entertainment… — Dorothy Sarnoff Copy Share Image
Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special.… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
A director is a man, therefore he has ideas; he is also an artist, therefore he has imagination. Whether they are good… — Michelangelo Antonioni Copy Share Image
“We have to bring our imaginations to bear on a story if we are to see all it's possibilitiess; otherwise it's just… — Thomas C. Foster Copy Share Image
You must have the willpower to overcome life. Overcoming the problems you face is vital. Imagination and desire are two different things.… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be… — Anatole Broyard Copy Share Image
The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men,… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine Copy Share Image
All of the Antilles, every island, is an effort of memory: every mind, every racial biography culminating in amnesia and fog. Pieces… — Derek Walcott Copy Share Image
There are instances: [Henry David] Thoreau read [John] Wordsworth, [John] Muir read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt read Muir, and you got national parks.… — Robert Hass Copy Share Image
The imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“I do exist, don’t I? It often feels as if I’m not here, that I’m a figment of my own imagination. There… — Gail Honeyman Copy Share Image
“Grown up at last and required to live all day long in the real world, it now seemed to Beatrix that imaginary… — Susan Wittig Albert Copy Share Image
Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
To live in the memories, to live in the imagination, is to live in the non-existential. And when you are living in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I learned what research was all about as a research student [with] Stoppani ... Max Perutz, and ... Fred Sanger... From them,… — Cesar Milstein Copy Share Image
“Whomever or whatever the visitors are, their activities go far beyond a mere study of mankind. They are involved with us on… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is… — Emmitt Smith Copy Share Image
A library in the middle of a community is a cross between an emergency exit, a life-raft and a festival. They are… — Caitlin Moran Copy Share Image
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![“It's [programming] the only job I can think of where I get to be both an engineer and an artist. There's an incredible, rigorous, technical element to it, which I like because you have to do very precise thinking. On the other hand, it has a wildly creative side where the boundaries of imagination…” quote by Andy Hertzfeld](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/001/andy-hertzfeld-24074_art_it-s-programming-the-only-job-i-can-thin_250407.jpg)
![“There are instances: [Henry David] Thoreau read [John] Wordsworth, [John] Muir read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt read Muir, and you got national parks. It took a century for this to happen, for artistic values to percolate down to where honoring the relation of people's imagination to the land, or…” quote by Robert Hass](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ee0/robert-hass-3548_artistic_there-are-instances-henry-david-thoreau_1836417.jpg)
![“I learned what research was all about as a research student [with] Stoppani ... Max Perutz, and ... Fred Sanger... From them, I always received an unspoken message which in my imagination I translated as "Do good experiments, and don't worry about the rest."” quote by Cesar Milstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df8/cesar-milstein-56606_experiments_i-learned-what-research-was-all-about-as_1928967.png)
