Famous Quotes & Sayings

Serge Lang

The reality has been the opposite of the rhetoric especially when questions have been raised about eminent figures in the establishment.

Thomas Berger

Why do writers write? Because it isn't there.

Thomas Berger

The art and science of asking questions is the source of all knowledge.

Earl Derr Biggers

This is unexpected... like squirt from aggressive grapefruit.

Rick Moody

The point is to balance on the edge between musicality and content.

Leo Rosten

Truth is stranger than fiction; fiction has to make sense.

Leo Rosten

Any man who hates dogs and babies can't be all bad.

Katherine Dunn

But I went to high school in a Portland suburb and went to college here.

Katherine Dunn

The second is the structure and source of cults. They have always haunted me, and I wanted to explore the fundamental notion of giving up responsibility to an outside power.

Evan Spiegel

People started conceiving of their friends as networking tools, like, 'Friend me so you can be friends with someone else,' or, 'The more people you know, the more networked you are.' But we see real value in having a fun conversation with your friends.

Seth Shostak

Imagine if the dinosaurs had tried picturing the rulers of their planet 100 million years hence. They'd undoubtedly envision these creatures as... dinosaurs! Conceiving of aliens as polished versions of ourselves is appealing, but unconvincing.

Sara Gruen

It seems natural to surround my fictional world with animals because my reality is full of them. When I'm sitting there conceiving a story, they just pop up.

Carlos Fuentes

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.

Carlos Fuentes

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.

Charles Caleb Colton

We know the effects of many things, but the cause of few; experience, therefore, is a surer guide than imagination, and inquiry than conjecture.

Byron Katie

Everyone in your life is a figment of your imagination--ev en you.

Bryce Courtenay

The imagination is always the best torturer.

Elliot Perlman

I'll be happy if I can gain even the smallest place inside the literary imagination of U.S. readers.

Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt

You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life.

Kate Micucci

There was always that kind of imagination in our house, which was always a little crazy.

Jane Addams

Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the experiences of other people.