Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind. — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
That's why I love being a writer. My imagination can take me places I may never see except in my mind's eye. — Pearl Cleage Copy Share Image
A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist. — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination. — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
I should like the fields tinged with red, the rivers yellow and the trees painted blue. Nature has no imagination. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Painting must be fertile. It must give birth to a world.. ..it must fertilize the imagination. — Joan Miro Copy Share Image
“Without the aid of the imagination all the pleasures of the senses must sink into grossness.” — Mary Wollstonecraft Copy Share Image
In terms of essays, I would say Oliver Sacks. His breadth of hard knowledge and imagination and empathy seems to constitute the… — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
My forte is editing and I am most experienced in that. I love the challenge of playing with material and imagination while… — Vikramaditya Motwane Copy Share Image
Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan intrigue and sulfurous hatreds where anything is… — Shana Alexander Copy Share Image
As a rule, indeed, grown-up people are fairly correct on matters of fact; it is in the higher gift of imagination that… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
“Vary your training, your running partners, and your environment. Only your imagination limits the ways you can spice up your running routine.” — Bob Glover Copy Share Image
Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant. — Ani DiFranco Copy Share Image
Our imagination may take us on amazing journeys but it all ends when we come into reality and realize that if we… — Wheaton Copy Share Image
Of course, they (i. e., demons) had always been observed with some regularity, but that could usually be ascribed to an overabundance… — Jack McDevitt Copy Share Image
“And suddenly it came to him. That Strawberry Fields garden he'd come from, and the Freedom Tower he'd been thinking of: taken… — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
“The disease of the hypochondriac consists in this: that certain bodily sensations do not so much indicate a really existing disease in… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularly is indispensable to the creations of the imagination. In proportion as men… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
“There's an apt expression: 'If you don't live in your body, where are you going to live?' But many of us don't.… — Bill Connington Copy Share Image
When we read a literary work (or, in some instances, listen to music) our imagination is stimulated, we feel various emotions, and… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
There's a different experience when you're reading a book rather than when you're seeing something on screen. When you're seeing a movie… — Holland Taylor Copy Share Image
Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.. It is only fair… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Imagination consists in expelling from reality many incomplete persons, making use of the magical and subversive powers of desire, to obtain their… — René Char Copy Share Image
Me liking you = Reality. You liking me = Fantasy. Me and you = too good to be true… — Alvin Copy Share Image
“You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity.” — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Every comic delves into the personal archive when their imagination runs dry. — James Acaster Copy Share Image
There is art and beauty and power in the primal images of fantasy. — Guillermo del Toro Copy Share Image
“Einstein also said that ‘Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.’” He” — Ellery Adams Copy Share Image
“It is amazing what a pen and paper can create when one adds just a little imagination.” — Bethany Robbins Copy Share Image
The imagination is the workshop of the soul, where all the plans for individual achievement are shaped. — Napoleon Hill Copy Share Image
Challenging the status quo takes commitment, courage, imagination, and, above all, dedication to learning. — Marshall Ganz Copy Share Image
“The power of an imagination can arise from what it refuses to foresee.” — Michael Lewis Copy Share Image
“If you think things can't get any worse, you have no imagination and no sense of history.” — John S. Hall Copy Share Image
“Children have to grow into their imaginations like a pair of oversized shoes.” — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“Words are beads on the strings of sentences. So make a beautiful necklace!” — Aneta Cruz Copy Share Image
Fiction and poetry are doses, medicines. What they heal is the rupture reality makes on the imagination — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Life is where reality ends and imagination begins. Until you step beyond that boundary, you have not lived.” — Thomas Lopinski Copy Share Image
The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination. — Alexander Cockburn Copy Share Image
“Imagine our imaginations were limited only to the limitless. Still, it wouldn't matter without a motivation to move.” — Ryan Lilly Copy Share Image
