A horror novel should reveal to you that you are falling apart. That there are ways your imagination can be made different.… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
“Serious illness, life-threatening illness, was outside the realm of my imagination. If pushed to consider the question, I might have responded that… — Heather Harpham Copy Share Image
Poetry, at all times, exercises two distinct functions: it may reveal, it may unveil to every eye, the ideal aspects of common… — Walter Pater Copy Share Image
The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. I was a child then,… — Beatrix Potter Copy Share Image
It is not enough to simply teach children to read; we have to give them something worth reading. Something that will stretch… — Katherine Paterson Copy Share Image
If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
I used to think that when I set out that doing the research was enough! But then the gaps would emerge that… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Pure physical sensation, social status, sexual attraction, and feeling like a winner are generally superficial, which is why people hunger for them… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
“I used to give X-ray vision a lot of thought because I couldn’t see how it could work. I mean, if you… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I'm sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
In imagination she sailed over storied seas that wash the distant shining shores of "faëry lands forlorn," where lost Atlantis and Elysium… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting… — Jennifer Lopez Copy Share Image
“And what more am I? I look for aid to the imagination. [But how mistakenly!] I am not that assemblage of limbs… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
“At its best, science fiction stimulates imagination and creativity. It gets reader and writer off the beaten track, off the narrow, narrow… — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
In horror films, they sometimes don't show the monster because our imaginations and our own pain is so much greater. Social media… — Alice Eve 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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
…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
“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
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 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
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
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
“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
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
“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
Have you ever seen any member of radiohead aside from me in public? Do they interact or 'lift' objects? Holograms, all of… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
For a long time the objects that mathematicians dealt with were mostly ill-defined; one believed one knew them, but one represented them… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
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