William Shakespeare Quotes

The box was a universe, a poem, frozen on the boundaries of human experience.

For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.

All experience is an arch wherethrough gleams that untravelled world whose margin fades for ever and for ever when I move.

I am concerned, rather, that there should not be more things dreamt of in my philosophy than there actually are in heaven and earth.

I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.

How little do we discover in comparison of those things which now are and forever will be hidden from our sight? The whole of which I am fully persuaded no one will ever be able to dive into, and to explain their causes and effects.

The child who has no need to feign empirical knowledge about life can wonder and fantasise with great ease. The world is his oyster, or any other thing he wants it to be.

Whenever I start a novel, I'm always looking for two things: a bit of science that makes me go 'what if?' and a piece of history that ends in a question mark.

Some things have to be believed to be seen.

The flesh is the surface of the unknown.

I would rather live in a world where my life is surrounded by mystery than live in a world so small that my mind could comprehend it.

It is my supposition that the Universe in not only queerer than we imagine, is queerer than we can imagine.

If all you were left believing was what you were seeing, it'd be nothing but desperate. To have hope, you're going to have to imagine that there's something behind the curtain.

And where does magic come from? I think that magic's in the learning.

All that we know is still infinitely less than all that still remains unknown.

Everything that you can imagine is going on is going on.

All the world is heavy with the promise of greater things, and the day will come … when beings, beings who are now latent in our thoughts and hidden in our loins shall stand upon this earth … and shall laugh and reach out their hands amid the stars.

Politics has been called the “art of the possible,” and it actually is a realm akin to art insofar as, like art, it occupies a creatively mediating position between spirit and life, the idea and reality.

Each day has its own destiny. Yesterday is history, today is opportunity while tomorrow is mystery.

What is the world for if you can't make it up the way you want it.

One can never produce anything as terrible and impressive as one can awesomely hint about.

If you stand over on the edge of the west coast of Ireland and look west, you are looking at something you can't see, only imagine. You know America is there, and you can imagine it being there. But you're also looking into infinity, because you can see nothing.

A starry sky is equally interesting to a scientist, a mystic, an ethics scholar, and a poet. Looking at the stars, each experiences something different, and each sees his own picture.

Pink Floyd and Yes and some of the old art-rock bands, you didn't know what they looked like. You were always looking for pictures, and that added to the mystique. It's much more interesting when you're forced to imagine or guess at these things because usually it's better than reality.

No one really has any idea about me. To me, what I give you is what happens onscreen, and past that, anything you're coming up with in your own head, you're creating in your own mind.