“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
“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
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
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
“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
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
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 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
“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’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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
Art was always a means to an end with me. You get an idea, and you just can't wait. Once you've started,… — Walt Disney 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
I have learned as much about writing about my people by listening to blues and jazz and spirituals as I have from… — Ernest Gaines Copy Share Image
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
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
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
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