#nation

Writing is like sculpturing words out of a block of imagination. Sentences chisel the story, then characters make it their own. ↗

— Federico Chini

#inspiration #sculpturing #writing #imagination

Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists -- with it all things are possible. ↗

— Ida Tarbell

#imagination #inspirational #key #imagination

So he was always in the town at one place or another, drinking, knocking about with the men he knew. It really wearied him. He talked to barmaids, to almost any woman, but there was that dark, strained look in his eyes, as if he were hunting something. Everything seemed so different, so unreal. There seemed no reason why people should go along the street, and houses pile up in the daylight. There seemed no reason why these things should occupy the space, instead of leaving it empty. His friends talked to him: he heard the sounds, and he answered. But why there should be the noise of speech he could not understand. ↗

— D.H. Lawrence

#drinking #isolation #language #meaninglessness #suicide

I imagine there are orderly, well-organized Scanners in the world, but there can't be very many of them. It's far more common to hear a Scanner mumbling, "Now, where did I put that lizard? ↗

— Barbara Sher

#imagination

My Master had power and law on his side; I had a determined will. There is might in each. ↗

— Harriet Jacobs

#inspirational #power #inspirational

Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its own inspiration, is a trick worthy of humna perverseness which, after inventing an absurdity, endeavours to find for it a pedigree of distinguished ancestors... ↗

— Joseph Conrad

#imagination #literary-theories #imagination

People of different faiths, like yours and mine, sometimes wonder where we can meet in common purpose, when there are so many differences in creed and theology. Surely the answer is that we can meet in service, in shared moral convictions about our nation stemming from a common worldview. ↗

— Mitt Romney

#answer #common #convictions #creed #differences

Million dollar ideas are a dime a dozen. The determination to see the idea through is what's priceless. ↗

— Robert Dieffenbach

#determination #ideas #inspirational #million-dollar-ideas #priceless

It is through imagination that we transcend understanding and travel into the world of possibilities. ↗

— Danielle Pierre

#imagination #inspirational-quotes #imagination

If you have the goods, life's too short to wait. Hidden gold is lost gold. The world should not be denied an opportunity to touch the collective imagination. To those who deny both the world and themselves, their larder deserves absolute obscurity. For those who share, obscurity is relative and a spark remains to keep the embers warm. ↗

— Edward C. Patterson

#inspirational-life #imagination