Quotes by Imagination Wit penetrates; humor envelops. Wit is a function of verbal intelligence; humor is imagination operating on good nature. Peggy Noonan witfunctionimagination The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. Percy Bysshe Shelley instrumentsmoralimagination For those without money, the road to the treasure house of the imagination begins at the public library. Pete Hamill libraryimaginationhouse The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible. Pete Seeger imaginationpeoplethinking London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books. Peter Ackroyd imaginationcharacterbook Whatever strengthens and purifies the affections, enlarges the imagination, and adds spirit to sense, is useful. Percy Bysshe Shelley strengthimaginationadd I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the spiritual as well as the material. I have always been attracted to the Gothic and spiritual imagination, and I've always been interested in visionaries. Peter Ackroyd imaginationspiritualexercise Poetry, in a general sense, may be defined to be 'the expression of the imagination': and poetry is connate with the origin of man. Percy Bysshe Shelley imaginationexpressionmen Under the force of the imagination, nature itself is changed. Peter Ackroyd forcechangedimagination What we have is a crisis of imagination. Albert Einstein said that you cannot solve a problem with the same mind-set that created it. Peter Buffett problemimaginationmind Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. Percy Bysshe Shelley fantasydifferencesimagination We live and move and think; but we are not the creators of our own origin and existence. We are not the arbiters of every motion of our own complicated nature; we are not the masters of our own imaginations and moods of mental being. Percy Bysshe Shelley imaginationmovingthinking Soft focus is an important skill that can effect us metaphorically. In other words, the way we see the future has everything to do with how well we can look up and see the expanded horizon before us. Peter Kline focusskillsimagination I acknowledge Mike Leigh and Ken Loach. They are prostlytizers of English socialism preaching to the converted and telling us what we already know. Cinema is best served away from documentary neo-realism. I come from a tradition of post-post-Italian neo-realism in England, where we've produced the best television in the world. But to paraphrase Truffaut, the English have no visual imagination. Peter Greenaway cinemaitalianimagination No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old. Peter Jackson imaginationkingsyears Unless you periodically unbind yourself from the world as it is given to you from moment to moment, you will fail to release those qualities of your mind that can generate images of the world as you would prefer it to be or the world as you declare it to be. Peter London qualityimaginationmind George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create. Peter Mayhew imaginationmightcharacter For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which he must be free, but another in which his thought must be very preceisely regimented; there is poetry in science, but also a lot of bookkeeping. Peter Medawar creativeimaginationscience You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you. Peter Mullan instinctimagination I think writers have to be able to enjoy solitude rather than just endure it. I've always enjoyed being left alone with my imagination, ever since I was a kid. Peter Robinson imaginationkidsthinking«117118119120121122123124125126127»
