“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.”
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) British economist
Book One in 'Black Magic and Its Expose', B/O
The Master and Margarita (1967)
“The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones.”
John Maynard Keynes (1883–1946) British economist
“To imagine means to make images and to move them about inside one's head in new arrangements.”
Jacob Bronowski (1908–1974) Polish-born British mathematician
"The Reach of Imagination" (1967)
“And to bring in a new word by the head and shoulders, they leave out the old one.”
Michel De Montaigne book Essays
Book III, Ch. 5. Upon some Verses of Virgil
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
William McKeen (1954) American academic
In fact, getting the story became the story. His writing could be classified as metajournalism, journalism about the process of journalism.
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 5, Observer, p. 73
“Nothing got inside the head without becoming pictures.”
Jonathan Franzen book The Corrections
Source: The Corrections
“When danger reared its ugly head,
He bravely turned his tail and fled.”
Graham Chapman (1941–1989) English comedian, writer and actor
Source: Monty Python and the Holy Grail (Book): Mønti Pythøn Ik Den Hølie Gräilen
“Sex is rearing its interesting head.”
Robert A. Heinlein book Sixth Column
Source: Sixth Column (1949; originally serialized in 1941), Chapter 7 (p. 83)
Sheri S. Tepper (1929–2016) American fiction writer
Source: The Visitor (2002), Ch. 7 : dismé the maiden, p. 57