Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Kisses are a better fate than wisdom.

The earth laughs in flowers.

The most wasted of all days is one without laughter.

It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.

Unbeing dead isn't being alive.

America makes prodigious mistakes, America has colossal faults, but one thing cannot be denied: America is always on the move. She may be going to Hell, of course, but at least she isn't standing still.

Private property began the instant somebody had a mind of his own.

I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.

Unless you love someone, nothing else makes any sense.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

I would rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach 10,000 stars how not to dance.

At least the Pilgrim Fathers used to shoot Indians: the Pilgrim Children merely punch time clocks.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.

A politician is an arse upon which everyone has sat except a man.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

To destroy is always the first step in any creation.

A wind has blown the rain away and blown the sky away and all the leaves away, and the trees stand. I think, I too, have known autumn too long.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than to teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit.

It takes three to make a child.

The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

I thank you God for this most amazing day, for the leaping greenly spirits of trees, and for the blue dream of sky and for everything which is natural, which is infinite, which is yes.

Listen; there's a hell of a good universe next door: let's go.

Humanity I love you because when you're hard up you pawn your intelligence to buy a drink.

To like an individual because he's black is just as insulting as to dislike him because he isn't white.

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

Nothing recedes like progress.

If a poet is anybody, he is somebody to whom things made matter very little - somebody who is obsessed by Making.

Be of love a little more careful than of anything.

Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.

I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

We especially need imagination in science.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.

To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.

In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was before TV - and Superman movies. We even visualized Superman billboards. And it's all come true.

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.