Stab me if you can enjoy it – but not if it feels like a duty. Stab me vertically if I’m lying down and horizontally if I’m running

We cross from memory into imagination with only a vague awareness of change.

Am I crazy?” she asked. “I feel like I am sometimes.” “Maybe,” he said, rubbing her forehead. “But don’t worry about it. You need to be a little bit crazy. Crazy is the price you...

You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye.

Reality is such a pain. Those of us who were fed up with that kind of reality decided to remake it. We’d set up a partition, separate what’s important to us from what was trash,...

Vzduch venku byl kapalného skupenství. Černá, antracitová voda, vybízející k tomu, aby jí člověk položil ruku na hřbet a pohladil ji.

Dreamer in Exile.

Whether divine or human, it is precisely the imagination that fashions and recognizes the universe as meaningful, abiding, and valuable, that is to say, as real.

How promising today’s generation is. They can whip out their cellular phones like sheep, instantly take a million digital photos of their cat and then just delete them. But I’d like to see these kids...

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for...

Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

To be successful in life, plan, implement, revise, update, and build on change.

The only unreachable dream is the one you don’t reach for.

In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.

On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid,And I begin to meditate about problems I make up.

The crisis besetting America is not just an economic or political crisis; something deeper is wreaking havoc across the land, a mercenary and utilitarian attitude that demonstrates little empathy for people’s actual well-being, that dismisses...

Fantasy leaves imaginations larger than it finds them.

There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it…others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having the ability to fuse the two.

Imagination is the gatekeeper of the human soul.

We can breathe in the sweet scent of a tepid summer’s meadow after the kiss of a warm rain, and in the very same moment we can stand utterly breathless underneath the expanse of untold...

Maybe she would have done more good as a playwright than as a doctor, after all — clichés were like plaque in the arteries of the imagination, they clogged the sense of what was possible....

Anything you imagine (inner world)will materialize into your life (outer world). It’s speed of materializing is determined by how much feeling and trust you give it, and how well you are able to recognize when...

Art is a consciousness-provoking vessel.

The self-centered man will always expect nothing but praise. He will hope and expect all incoming criticism to be mere self-projection from the critic because when you’re self-centered, self-projection is all you can imagine one...

Sometimes he does talk back, but sometimes he doesn’t. Sometimes he’s not there; and from time to time I believe this was all nothing but imaginary.

If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just...

When people go away they vanish, turn to nothing, stop being. They live only in memories, haunting the imagination.

Our imagination is dictated by who we are. (198)

We dream — it is good we are dreaming —It would hurt us — were we awake —But since it is playing — kill us,And we are playing — shriek —What harm? Men die —...

By no stretch of the imagination am I going to tell you that I’ve solved all the problems of the community in terms of integrating and in lashing it up, … But we’ve made an...

I have a mansion of an imagination, and I cordially invite you to come sleep in my shed.

As cities grow and technology takes over the world belief and imagination fade away and so do we.

Man was first a hunter, and an artist: his early vestiges tell us that alone. But he must always have dreamed, and recognized and guessed and supposed, all the skills of the imagination. Language itself...

You can’t be stop. Reach out for your dreams.

Your imagination is a wonderland full of realities.

Imagination is a sacred place.

The curse of imagination is picturing the world as it should be.

It is … through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.

The trouble with men is that they have limited minds. That’s the troublewith women, too.” [“Existence” (1975)]

Knowledge has a materiality, not unlike the materiality of a ladder, that can be used to gain access to places and worlds that were previously unimaginable.

The true parents of creativity are curiosity and necessity.

People will say,”there’s heaven and hell”, and they take it so serious that they look so sorrowful with penitence. I would rather ask them to show me the route that leads to heaven or hell.

… every hypothesis is a construction, and because of this it is an authentic theory. In so far as they merit that exigent name, ideas are never a mere reception of presumed realities, but they...

Rows and rows of books lined the shelves and I let my eyes linger on the sturdy spines, thinking how human books were, so full of ideas and images, worlds imagined, worlds perceived; full of...

You don’t read to exercise the mind but to take voyages

Everyone needs to escape sometimes, and retreating into somebody else’s fantasy isn’t nearly as satisfying as slipping into your own.

There can be no understanding without that sympathy which puts us, through the imagination, and (another’s) situation.

Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us.

10.Never allow your imagination to stop. It was the imagination of great people that brought us the internet, the pyramids, cars, airplanes, boats, great novels, beautiful painting, classical songs, great movies, water irrigation, solar panels,...