My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination.… — Jessica Hagedorn Copy Share Image
Our bread need not ever be sour or hard to digest. What Nature is to the mind she is also to the… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As a species, we create tools to control our environment. What excites my imagination is wilderness: our materials' ability to escape our… — James Arthur Copy Share Image
I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition… — Ishmael Beah Copy Share Image
I'm interested in that hybrid - the place between the real world and my imagination. There's a friction that's created between the… — Laurel Nakadate Copy Share Image
How extraordinary was my life an incident may illustrate... [As a youth] I was fascinated by a description of Niagara Falls. I… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I was a weird little kid. I was very irritable, bored, frustrated. I felt my imagination bubbling inside my head without having… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
One night I had an idea while I was at the movies: to photograph the film itself. I tried to imagine photographing… — Hiroshi Sugimoto Copy Share Image
Being on set and seeing all that green screen, and how it activated my imagination, was amazing to me. I fell into… — Dennis Haysbert Copy Share Image
I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite… — Brian K. Vaughan Copy Share Image
Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio: a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy: he hath borne me on his… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
The illusion of control has to be there, but mostly I'm following characters and the consequences of their own decisions, because a… — Bob Shacochis Copy Share Image
I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of… — L. Frank Baum Copy Share Image
I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
If it weren't for my imagination, I would weigh ten thousand pounds. This is because the only way I am able to… — Mindy Kaling Copy Share Image
I would love to do a western. I would love to play an explorer. That is always something that has really captured… — John C. Reilly Copy Share Image
I just try to put myself in the sense of being a character, sometimes male. I suppose I just like the idea… — Kate Bush Copy Share Image
I've frequently been asked over the years who Lily Savage was based on and I've always answered that it was no one… — Paul O'Grady Copy Share Image
