I don't believe my house was haunted. I think I had an overactive imagination, and I was so convinced that those around me became convinced, too.
The image of Stephen Hawking - who has died aged 76 - in his motorised wheelchair, with head contorted slightly to one side and hands crossed over to work the controls, caught the public imagination as a true symbol of the triumph of mind over matter.
Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.
I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.
Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.
The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The theater is unnatural, a place of imagination. But the theater tells the audience something true: that the world requires judgments.
The hoax is the very absence of truth, which usually means art is absent, too - hoaxes regularly substitute claims of reality for imagination, facts for form, acting as if artifice is the antithesis of art.
There's something magical about a home run. It almost violates the space of the stadium. It's a game of the imagination in some ways. Baseball.
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
It was David McCullough's 'The Johnstown Flood' that lit my imagination as to how I might one day go about writing book-length nonfiction, though my favorite of his books is 'Mornings on Horseback,' about the young Teddy Roosevelt.
But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular songs, putting a grimy human face on capitalism while dramatizing the social changes and conflicts it brought.
I have truly been inspired by the struggle and triumphs of so many women that dare to break new ground in all aspects of society, and those who have pushed the boundaries of human imagination.
Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
The best way to renew thought is to go outside the human imagination.
Human imagination is so much more potent than anything we could put down in words.
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.
I think technical people now should learn literature, because literature teaches you a great deal about how - the depths and variety of human imagination.
The human imagination can connect to practically anything.
