Genius always finds itself a century too early.

An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself.

Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.

Nothing is impossible the word itself says 'I'm possible'!

With the world as it now presents itself there is something perverse and probably dysfunctional about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome the school-lottery migration the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?

I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area but it's one of them one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet a fun thing then it hurts itself.

While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

You can understand nothing about art particularly modern art if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.

Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination nature is imagination itself.

The sense of humor has other things to do than to make itself conspicuous in the act of laughter.

Comedy we may say is society protecting itself - with a smile.

Everything human is pathetic. The secret source of humor itself is not joy but sorrow. There is no humor in heaven.

My great hope would be that Quebec would realize itself fully as a distinct part of Canada and stay Canadian bringing to Canada a part of its richness.

Structure is one of the things that I always hope will reveal itself to me.

Put your blog out into the world and hope that your talent will speak for itself.

I can only speak for myself and hope people hear my words and see me on television speaking for myself. And hopefully they'll be able to make their own judgment. And at the end of the day I just want my work to speak for itself.

People internalize from the jail to student loan debt to credit card debt to unemployment to the whole collective. It manifests itself in many ways in people's home lives domestic stuff.

Every day is a journey and the journey itself is home.