Quotes by Imagination It is the imagination that gives shape to the universe. Barry Lopez imagination wise giving Jazz spent a chunk of the day fantasizing about ways to kill his grandmother, plotting them and planning them in the most excruciating, gruesome detail his imagination would allow. It turned out his imagination allowed quite a bit. He spent the rest of the day convincing himself--over and over--not to do it. Barry Lyga details grandmother imagination The greatest poet who ever wrote about rowing is Virgil, the greatest historian is Thucydides, but the greatest imagination ever to turn its attention to the sport is that of painter, Thomas Eakins. Barry S. Strauss imagination attention sports The reader may ask himself if this is not cruelty and injustice of a kind so terrible that it beggars the imagination, and whether these poor people would not fare far better if they were entrusted to the devils in Hell than they do at the hands of the devils of the New World who masquerade as Christians. Bartolome de las Casas imagination christian hands Measure, time and number are nothing but modes of thought or rather of imagination. Baruch Spinoza imagination numbers science ...I don't see myself as a documentary photographer. I am more drawn to the image itself, rather than to the description of a scene. And, anyway, every image only halfway represents reality, whereas the other half is rather, more or less, fulfilling our imagination. Beat Streuli half imagination reality For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand. Beatrix Potter imagination children hands Light had a way of keeping the monsters of my imagination at bay. Becca Fitzpatrick light imagination monsters If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers. Bela Lugosi betrayed imagination enemy I have been contemplating the place and meaning of love in our lives and culture for years. When a subject attracts my intellectual and emotional imagination, I am long to observe it from all angles, to know it inside and out. Bell Hooks emotional imagination years Life is amazingly unpredictable; any 22-year-old who thinks they know where they will be in 10 years, much less in 30, is simply lacking imagination. Ben Bernanke imagination years thinking Any closer would unravel her mystery, the very thing which made her so truly beautiful...It was her mystery that he adored. He was in love with everything that he did not know about her... No real sexual encounter could ever match the secret one that he could nurture in his imagination... No living flesh could ever be the erotic equal of flesh kept private, untouchable and unknowable Ben Elton real imagination beautiful I think that one thing fiction can offer, and must offer, is a place where someone's mind and their imagination can come to rest for a little while. Ben H. Winters imagination mind thinking Ghetto-dwellers are the great fantasists. There was an extraordinary vibrancy there, an imaginative life. When you are that poor, all you've got left is your belief in the imagination. Ben Okri vibrancy ghetto imagination The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure. Ben Okri artist imagination secret Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination. Benedetto Croce art-is imagination art Art is ruled uniquely by the imagination. Images are it's only wealth. It does not classify objects, it does not pronounce them real or imaginary, does not qualify them does not define them; it feels and presents them. Benedetto Croce real imagination art Civility is a work of the imagination, for it is through the imagination that we render others sufficiently like ourselves for them to become subjects of tolerance and respect, if not always affection. Benjamin Barber tolerance imagination life Reading activates and exercises the mind. Reading forces the mind to discriminate. From the beginning, readers have to recognize letters printed on the page, make them into words, the words into sentences, and the sentences into concepts. Reading pushes us to use our imagination and makes us more creatively inclined. Benjamin Carson reading imagination exercise Life is too short to be little. You must enlarge your imagination and then act on it. Benjamin Disraeli life-is-too-short imagination littles «1112131415161718192021»
