So where do the ideas-the salable ideas-come from? They come from my nightmares. Not the night-time variety, as a rule, but the… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Marilyn Monroe seemed to have a kind of unconscious glow about her physical self that was innocent, like a child. When she… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
While Poe and the Symbolists were exploring the irrational in literature, Freud had begun to explore the resonant figure/ground double-plot of the… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
Whether it's a blatant homage or unconscious mimicry, the Rolling Stones have permanently, indelibly influenced how rock stars look and behave. — Diablo Cody Copy Share Image
Reality! But what does this word mean? Each has his own reality. I draw upon my personal reality upon the dark side… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
Into the hands of every individual is given a marvelous power for good or evil---the silent, unconscious, unseen influence of his life.… — William George Jordan Copy Share Image
Dead bodies didn't resemble unconscious ones; it was as if you could sense that something had fled from them, that some essential… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
“The unconscious is always trying to make itself conscious and so if you slow down and listen you can align yourself instead… — Oli Anderson Copy Share Image
[Sigmund Freud] makes the interpretation of dreams extremely simple: it deals in substance with discovering what unconscious desires, distorted but recognizable, are… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say… — Owen Barfield Copy Share Image
If I say that Shakespeare is the greatest of intellects, I have said all concerning him. But there is more in Shakespeare's… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In these times - where social appearance is more important than spiritual substance - what has become our longing to change is… — Guy Finley Copy Share Image
I don't think unfriending your old crush on Facebook will do much other than remove him from your Facebook feed. Don't beat… — Mallory Ortberg Copy Share Image
I have an unconscious burglar living in my mind: If I read something, it's mine. I can read Middle English stories, Geoffrey… — David Eddings Copy Share Image
On the other hand, the pleasure caused by laughter, even on the stage, is not an unadulterated enjoyment; it is not a… — Henri Bergson Copy Share Image
Poetry comes to me out of thin air or out of my unconscious mind. It's sort of the way dreams come to… — John Ashbery Copy Share Image
Art is the uniting of the subjective with the objective, of nature with reason, of the unconscious with the conscious, and therefore… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Poetry is a process of getting back to the unconscious. Hence, I am always writing-even when I'm not facing the white space.… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
I believe that a man is converted when first he hears the low, vast murmur of life, of human life, troubling his… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
We have wandered into a state of prolonged neurosis because of the absence of a direct pipeline to the unconscious and we… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“Rather than thinking in terms of good and bad, it is more helpful to think in terms of conscious and unconscious, aware,… — Joan Borysenko Copy Share Image
Technical knowledge is not enough. One must transcend techniques so that the art becomes an artless art, growing out of the unconscious. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The unconscious democracy of America is a very fine thing. It is a true and deep and instinctive assumption of the equality… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
The multilevel, the conscious and the unconscious, is natural when I write scripts, when I come up with ideas and stories. — Bong Joon-ho Copy Share Image
The Freudians describe the conscious as a small lit area, all white, and the unconscious as a great dark marsh full of… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
The secret to Hitler's power is ... that his unconscious has exceptional access to his conscious and ... that he allows himself… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave… — Mary Caroline Richards Copy Share Image
The greatest impediments to changes in our traditional roles seem to lie not in the visible world of conscious intent, but in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“felt as though my body had been switched into some kind of perverted survival mode, where it wanted to fuck itself unconscious.” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“...[R]ead a great deal of the works you enjoy most. Much of it will be useless. But the trusty unconscious can be… — C.L. Moore Copy Share Image
In recognizing exactly where we have been unconscious, we become more conscious. And in seeing and feeling the ways we've gone dead,… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
Tess," I say. "I'm going to head down to the water.I'll be back in a minute." "You sure you can make it… — Marie Lu Copy Share Image
The deceit is sometimes unconscious, but not always, since some people, owing to their sectarianism, purposely overlook reality and refuse to acknowledge… — Pierre-Paul Grasse Copy Share Image
Animals have no unconscious, because they have a territory. Men have only had an unconscious since they lost a territory. — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
When you're mid-season, in very intense situations, it's hard not to take that home with you. Especially when you're sleeping, you can't… — Aaron Paul Copy Share Image
The purpose of ritual is to wake up the old mind in us, to put it to work. The old ones inside… — Zsuzsanna Budapest Copy Share Image
All of my short films are about marriages, and I think that this probably comes from some kind of unconscious fascination with… — Sarah Polley Copy Share Image
I suppose I had always been an unconscious suffragist. With my temperament and my surroundings, I could scarcely have been otherwise. — Emmeline Pankhurst Copy Share Image
The artist's knowledge of his own creative nature is often unconscious; he pursues his mysterious way of life in a strange innocence. — Dorothy L. Sayers Copy Share Image
It is one of the basic tenets of fascist leadership to keep primary libidinal energy on an unconscious level so as to… — Theodor Adorno Copy Share Image