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Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination w... by Annie Dillard

Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.

Annie Dillard
imagination book world

Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.

Ansel Adams
photography imagination expression
Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the im... by Anthony Burgess

Language exists less to record the actual than to liberate the imagination.

Anthony Burgess
records language imagination

Oliver Stone is a great director and I've seen many films over the years, but I try to create stuff out of my own imagination. I want to break all the rules and mess about with it and make a different movie just for the fun of it.

Anthony Hopkins
imagination fun years

Sometimes it bursts from your imagination fully formed, sometimes you absorb from nonfiction, sometimes you're able to imprint your own autobiographical experiences on a world you never yourself were a part of. A decent number of the one-liners in the title story originally came up in conversations with my girlfriend or my neighbor.

Anthony Marra
girlfriend imagination numbers
Imagination flourishes best in solitude. by Anthony Storr

Imagination flourishes best in solitude.

Anthony Storr
solitude imagination

The ecstatic state of wholeness is bound to be transient because it has no part in the total pattern of ‘adaptation through maladaptation’ which is characteristic of our species…the hunger of imagination, the desire and pursuit of the whole, take origin from the realization that something is missing, from awareness of incompleteness.

Anthony Storr
imagination missing desire

Imagination, on the contrary, which is ever wandering beyond the bounds of truth, joined to self-love and that self-confidence we are so apt to indulge, prompt us to draw conclusions which are not immediately derived from facts.

Antoine Lavoisier
self-confidence imagination science

But the average person doesnt have that much imagination. They just want to be entertained. They want to have the tableau presented for them. They dont want to participate beyond a certain point. They want the safety of the herd, to be catered to, sit back and enjoy.

Anton Szandor LaVey
safety imagination average

If one draws things in a manner which provides only the barest clue to their meaning, the viewer is forced to fill in the gaps by using his own imagination. He is compelled to participate in the creative act, which I consider very important.

Antoni Tapies
important creative imagination

Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.

Antonio Gaudi
simplicity imagination firsts

Nevertheless, scientific method is not the same as the scientific spirit. The scientific spirit does not rest content with applying that which is already known, but is a restless spirit, ever pressing forward towards the regions of the unknown, and endeavouring to lay under contribution for the special purpose in hand the knowledge acquired in all portions of the wide field of exact science. Lastly, it acts as a check, as well as a stimulus, sifting the value of the evidence, and rejecting that which is worthless, and restraining too eager flights of the imagination and too hasty conclusions.

Archibald Garrod
imagination science hands

A true lady should have the wit and the imagination, or at least the very restraint, to express herself without resorting herself to such base vocabulary.

Ari Marmell
vocabulary imagination should-have
We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagin... by Ariel Dorfman

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.

Ariel Dorfman
without-hope imagination

Beware of turning into the enemy you most fear. All it takes is to lash out violently at someone who has done you some grievous harm, proclaiming that only your pain matters in this world. More than against that person's body, you will then, at that moment, be committing a crime against your own imagination.

Ariel Dorfman
pain imagination enemy

Opinion involves belief (for without belief in what we opine we cannot have an opinion), and in the brutes though we often find imagination we never find belief.

Aristotle
soul imagination belief
Imagination is a sort of faint perception. by Aristotle

Imagination is a sort of faint perception.

Aristotle
perception imagination
Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part i... by Aristotle

Thinking is different from perceiving and is held to be in part imagination, in part judgment

Aristotle
soul imagination thinking

Toy Story 3 is so besotted with brand names and product-placement that it stops being about the innocent pleasures of imagination -- the usefulness of toys -- and strictly celebrates consumerism.

Armond White
imagination names stories

Imagination, whatever may be said to the contrary, will always hold a place in history, as truth does in romance. Has not romance been penned with history in view?

Arsene Houssaye
romance imagination views
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