Through an experience that simultaneously involved my sensibility and intelligence, I realized early on that the imaginative life, however morbid it might… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime… — Florence Welch Copy Share Image
The greatest experience I've ever had in a movie theater was watching "Star Wars." It shaped how I look at the world.… — Will Smith Copy Share Image
There are people a lot smarter than me investigating nature versus nurture who would have a lot to say about that, but… — Zoe Kazan Copy Share Image
I write about, more or less, everything I can think of, that is I stretch my imagination as far as it'll go.… — John Updike Copy Share Image
A novel, for me, relies on my imagination to inspire your (the reader's) imagination. It is not all there for you. My… — Jay Neugeboren Copy Share Image
Thought for Today: I dream big! I let go of any limitations on my imagination, and I give voice to my inner… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
The notion of Victoria should be a ladies' paradise. If men like Victoria's Secret, that's kind of a bonus, but in my… — Les Wexner Copy Share Image
My parents had come from Mexico, a short road in my imagination. I felt myself as coming from a caramelized planet, an… — Richard Rodriguez Copy Share Image
I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always… — Gillian Flynn Copy Share Image
I've talked to a few writers who have had childhood illnesses. The sense of convalescence - the feeling that you're waiting to… — Evie Wyld 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
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
It is a bit more challenging for the simple fact that now the stories I am writing are relying more on my… — Sasa Stanisic 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
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
At school any spontaneous act was likely to get me into trouble. I learned never to act on impulse, and that whatever… — Keith Johnstone 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
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
For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
It's not only that I want to get things right when I'm composing but that my imagination often gets lost, and then… — George Benjamin Copy Share Image
With all the movies I've made about history, it's not really fun because you're trying to get it right. You've got history… — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
There is a core of loneliness. It's partly existential. Secondly, I was raised a loner. My parents were not there. My father… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Usually when I'm painting something it takes a lot of focus. I have the room I go into called the white room.… — Autumn de Forest Copy Share Image