Quotes by Imagination For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world. Angela Carter our-world imagination men Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant. Ani DiFranco government imagination talking Is imagination dependent upon experience, or is experience influenced by imagination? Anita Shreve dependent imagination I chose Congo in order to become close to a place that we had turned away from. It isn't present in our imaginations, in the stories we tell each other. Yet it's relevant to our lives and to our worlds, in a practical way. Congo supplies raw materials for the things that we use on a daily basis. We are intimately linked to Congo, economically. We're linked to it through human events that are occurring there, that affect all of us, and yet you don't find narratives of Congo present in our lives. Anjan Sundaram relevant imagination world She glared at him, feeling the old frustration. Sometimes in his presence she felt the deepest connection to him, and other times she felt completely alone-as though any bond to him was her own bitter imagination. Ann Brashares frustration imagination feelings I've always been intrigued by cutout silhouettes. They are so intriguing, so poetic-the shadow of a soul. They tell everything about a character and they are open to be filled with one's own imagination. Ann Demeulemeester soul imagination character Damon Lindelof is hypnotizing. His imagination is without limits, and Tom Perrotta, as well. You begin to just trust, completely, where the story is going, knowing that you're entirely safe in the truthfulness of it. Ann Dowd truthfulness damon imagination Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere. Ann Patchett one-time imagination People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go. Ann Wilson just-listen imagination people I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination. Anna Deavere Smith development imagination home Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. Anna Funder suffering-of-others imagination people A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination. Anna Godbersen imagination men world The sexiest thing about a bikini is that it leaves something to the imagination, which is the best part. Anna Sui sexiest bikinis imagination It's really important that, as women, we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations. Anne Bancroft important imagination stories My hope is that this life is not all there is. This life is like preparation for what is coming next, and what is coming next is something so glorious that the Bible says minds can't conceive it, eye has never seen, your imagination could never even enter into all that God is preparing for those who love him. Anne Graham Lotz preparation eye imagination Because the world of this film begins and ends in the imagination of Tim Burton, you're not seeing a movie that's been shot on locations that you've seen a million times. Because this world has no rules, you're seeing so many different and separate brushstrokes and colors and characterizations somehow getting combined through Tim. Anne Hathaway color different imagination No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination. Anne Sullivan Macy imagination trying ideas Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing. Anne Waldman imagination writing firsts It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, a massive failure of imagination... If we were to judge nature by common sense or likelihood, we wouldnt believe the world existed. Annie Dillard imagination judging believe What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling; some sort of extreme of subject matter; some nearness to death; some call to courage. I myself was getting wild; I wanted wildness, originality, genius, rapture, hope. ... What I sought in books was a world whose surfaces, whose people and events and days lived, actually matched the exaltation of the interior life. There you could live. Annie Dillard imagination book people «678910111213141516»
