I do not rush into actual work. When I get a new idea, I start at once building it up in my… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
I tell my students one of the most important things they need to know is when they are at their best, creatively.… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it.… — Nicole Kidman Copy Share Image
My mother's people, the people who captured my imagination when I was growing up, were of the Deep South - emotional, changeable,… — Willie Morris Copy Share Image
Words, words, word. Once, I had the gift. I could make love out of words as a potter makes cups of clay.… — Jeffrey Eugenides 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
Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one… — Danilo Kis Copy Share Image
It wasn't until I had performed by first autopsy that I realized that even the drabest human exteriors could contain the most… — John B. S. Haldane Copy Share Image
Four billion people on this earth, but my imagination is still the same. It's bad with large numbers. It's still taken by… — Wislawa Szymborska Copy Share Image
I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
I don't know where creativity comes from, but I think everybody has the ability to be creative. I think what's important about… — Lyle Lovett Copy Share Image
The first draft you're pretty much on your own, so I love that. I can let my imagination go wild. I just… — Linda Woolverton Copy Share Image
All my desires are born of my dreams. And I have proven my love with words. To what fantastic creatures have I… — Paul Eluard Copy Share Image
Growing up, I didn't have television. My dad would make up stories and tell me stories, so my imagination ran wild. When… — Shiloh Fernandez 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
I really like dating stories, like in Betty and Veronica comics; I like David Lynch and H.P. Lovecraft for the dark gut-wrenching… — Fred Seibert Copy Share Image
I don't know enough about the lower classes to write about them. I don't feel with them, and that could be regarded… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
On the other hand, although I have a regular work schedule, I take time to go for long walks on the beach… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worship God.' If that… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don't even stir my curiosity. You simply produce no… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
My imagination? No, I don't think it's VIVID at all. On the contrary, it's not nearly potent enough. My poor imaginative faculties… — Thomas Ligotti 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
As a boy, I used to look at reproductions of Rembrandt's portraits... the people in his paintings were so real I felt… — David Cobley Copy Share Image
I don't suppose that hard work, discipline, and a perfectionist attitude toward my work did me any harm. They are a big… — Lucille Ball Copy Share Image
