Quotes by Imagination As one of four daughters, I grew up with an imaginary brother - wondering what it would have been like if one of us had been a boy. There's no question that there was a phantom boy child in my imagination when I was young. Siri Hustvedt boychildimaginationbrother People are quick to stereotype you and very lazy in their imagination to think beyond the first few films a heroine does. Shweta Tripathi thinkyouimaginationpeople Boredom is your imagination calling to you. Sherry Turkle youryouboredomimagination By itself, just to draw crazy creatures has limited appeal - if I had to give up one thing, it would be the wild imagination. When the work becomes too detached from ordinary life, it starts to fall apart. Fantasy needs to have some connection with reality, or it becomes of its own interest only, insular. Shaun Tan crazyimaginationworklife In writing my historical novels, I have to rely upon my imagination to a great extent. I think of it as 'filling in the blanks.' Medieval chroniclers could be callously indifferent to the needs of future novelists. But I think there is a great difference between filling in the blanks and distorting known facts. Sharon Kay Penman greatthinkfutureimagination I don't mind if what they write about me has some truth in it. Pure imagination makes me feel sad about the whole thing. Shaheer Sheikh mesadimaginationtruth The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination. Seamus Heaney againstsinimaginationfeelings Technology means the kind of music you can make on your own if you've got an imagination is amazing. It's crazy that I can sit with a Mac and a keyboard and a mic and create a symphony. Richard Ashcroft youmusictechnologyimagination I can find some part of me that relates to even the most evil characters. At least in my imagination. Richard Brake mei-canimaginationevil The goal of 'Data Detectives' is to spark the imagination of students around the globe by making them think about new technologies that will impact humanity in ways similar to language and art. Rick Smolan languageimaginationhumanityart Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build. Robert Collier youimaginationbluebelieve A puppet, for example, is just a piece of wood, a couple of rivets, but put them together, and if you know how to do it, and the audience's imagination joins in with this, then a miracle will come out of that machine. That is what we and the audience do in the theatre - we create miracles in that space. Robert Lepage youspaceimaginationtogether I used to write stories a lot because you had to fill your hours some other way than watching television. So my imagination was vivid, and I used to write a lot of stories. I wrote a novel, which I still have, which is so awful. Robert Osborne youimaginationtelevisionway As a writer, I'm convinced that encouraging children to write fiction, to hook into that marvelous machine called the imagination, has to be good for everyone. Rodman Philbrick everyonegoodimaginationchildren The image of Stephen Hawking - who has died aged 76 - in his motorised wheelchair, with head contorted slightly to one side and hands crossed over to work the controls, caught the public imagination as a true symbol of the triumph of mind over matter. Roger Penrose imaginationmindworkhands Imagination is an instrument of survival. Rogier van der Heide instrumentsurvivalimagination In a sense, fantasy is a freer play of the imagination. You can achieve exactly the situation you want with less groundwork, less of a need to fill in all of the background. For science fiction, I would use a lot of sources to set up, for instance, what a being from another planet would be like. Roger Zelazny yousituationimaginationscience The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go. Ronald Frame giftgoodimaginationway A writer's life suits me. It's fairly, well, other people might think it was actually rather dull, but that's fine because I feel that my imagination is enough to kind of keep me happy. Ronald Frame meimaginationlifepeople I think that in the cultural imagination, motherhood has a primacy that fatherhood just doesn't; and that's not to say that there aren't many fathers who are active and engaged and for whom that is their life's passion. But somehow, in the imagination, there's something different about maternity. Rumaan Alam motherhoodpassionimaginationlife«168169170171172173174175176177178»
