Quotes about imagination
imagination might shut-up
Imagination in a poet is a faculty so wild and lawless that, like a high ranging spaniel, it must have clogs tied to it, lest it outrun the judgment. The great easiness of blank verse renders the poet too luxuriant. He is tempted to say many things which might better be omitted, or, at least shut up in fewer words. John Dryden
imagination soul enthusiasm
Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
imagination survival secret
The secret of survival is a defective imagination. John Banville
imagination
Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming. Francis Spufford
imagination paragraph
Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.
imagination might reducing using
Reducing and reusing take nothing more than a rethink on the way we shop, and using our imagination with the things that we might once have considered junk. Sheherazade Goldsmith
imagination people imagine
I’ve always thought that each person invented himself… that we are each a figment of our own imagination. And some people have a greater ability to imagine than others. David Geffen
imagination important want
I've always felt that anyone who wants to talk about my private life is only demonstrating the paucity of his/her imagination when there are so many more important and exciting things to discuss. David Gerrold
imagination identity today
The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities. David Whyte
imagination hatred actors
Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination. Danny Boyle
imagination truth
I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least. C. S. Lewis
imagination science unseen worlds
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science. Ada Lovelace
imagination experience tragedy
The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations. Alfred North Whitehead
imagination keeps
It's what you don't see that keeps you on the edge of your seat in any kind of film - leave it to the imagination of the viewer. Christopher Lee
imagination nature paint
But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers? James Thomson
imagination ears sound
Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears! Dante Alighieri
imagination resources knows
The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about. Cynthia Ozick
imagination use imagine
To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination
imagination creative able
To be a storyteller is to be able to speak truth, to be able to use your imagination, to use the creative gifts that the Creator has given you. Common
imagination illusion ends
illusion throughout is illusion. There is no end to it, just as there is no end to imagination. Meher Baba
imagination religion world
Who says God has created this world? We have created it by our own imagination.
imagination feels
It doesn't take any imagination at all to feel awed Peter Weir
imagination instinct
You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you. Peter Mullan
imagination force changed
Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed. Peter Ackroyd
imagination leave-me-alone never-quit
You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me. Peter Shaffer
imagination world
I loved the world of imagination. R. A. Salvatore
imagination sick victim
The sick are victims of their own imagination. Pol Pot
imagination heaven communion
Keep the imagination sane--that is one of the truest conditions of communion with heaven. Nathaniel Hawthorne
imagination actors bigs
...an actor is exactly as big as his imagination. Minnie Maddern Fiske
imagination looks said
Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again. Terry Pratchett
imagination looks invention
I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.
imagination want kicks
I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you. Terry Brooks
imagination golden pathways
The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere. Terence McKenna