"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.”

“I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit”

“She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.”

“Imagine if birds were tickled by feathers. You'd see a flock of birds come by, laughing hysterically!”

“A society's competitive advantage will come not from how well its schools teach the multiplication and periodic tables, but from how well they stimulate imagination and creativity.”

“so full of shapes is fancy”

“It's certain there is no fine thing Since Adam's fall but needs much laboring.”

“Leave a space and something will fill it.”

“This life is worth living, we can say, since it is what we make it.”