#allen

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#bring #dismiss #effective #enabled #faculty

I'm not a dark person at all, so those roles are the most challenging. I don't think I'm necessarily drawn to dark things. It just seems to work out that way. ↗

— Camilla Belle

#dark #drawn #i #just #most

With a novelist, like a surgeon, you have to get a feeling that you've fallen into good hands - someone from whom you can accept the anesthetic with confidence. ↗

— Saul Bellow

#anesthetic #confidence #fallen #feeling #get

Time is shortening. But every day that I challenge this cancer and survive is a victory for me. ↗

— Ingrid Bergman

#challenge #day #every #every day #i

Let there be no doubt: the state of our union is strong - stronger than the terrorists who seek to harm us and stronger than the challenges that confront us. At the same time, we know that our union can be stronger still. ↗

— Tom Daschle

#confront #doubt #harm #know #no doubt

I think we're going to the moon because it's in the nature of the human being to face challenges. It's by the nature of his deep inner soul... we're required to do these things just as salmon swim upstream. ↗

— Neil Armstrong

#being #challenges #deep #face #going

The Internet provides very serious challenges to our ability to keep from children the kinds of things that are destructive to them. ↗

— John Ashcroft

#challenges #children #destructive #internet #keep

And, we put a lot more value, or at least I personally put a lot more value, on the creative values and creative challenges of something than the commercial necessities. ↗

— Rowan Atkinson

#commercial #creative #i #least #lot

Each book has been different and has been challenging in its own way to write. ↗

— Jean M. Auel

#book #challenging #different #each #own

I accept sceptics, you've got to have challenges. ↗

— Dan Aykroyd

#challenges #got #i #you