Quotes by Imagination The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination. Alexander Cockburn valleysimaginationtravel It's incredible how much stamina you can find when you're fighting and enemy in battle, even if that enemy is just in your imagination. Alexander Gordon Smith fightingimaginationenemy It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others. Alexander McCall Smith suffering-of-othersmoralimagination People don't want to see clothes, they want to see something that fuels the imagination. Alexander McQueen clothesimaginationpeople Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things. Alexander von Humboldt imaginationlittlesphilosophy When you're reading something, your imagination goes and you see it in your mind. Sometimes my instincts with that are right, and sometimes they're wrong. Alexandra Breckenridge readingimaginationmind “Cherie, did the table do something I did not see or were you just attempting to teach it a lesson?” “I was imagining it was Evor.” “Strange, they do not greatly resemble each other.” “I have a good imagination.” “In that case, I do not suppose you are imagining I'm Brad Pitt?” Alexandra Ivy lessonsimaginationtables So rapid is the flight of our dreams upon the wings of imagination. Alexandre Dumas imaginationdreamwings The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth. Alexis de Tocqueville egalitarianismequalityimagination In democracies, nothing is more great or more brilliant than commerce: it attracts the attention of the public, and fills the imagination of the multitude; all energetic passions are directed towards it. Alexis de Tocqueville passiondemocracyimagination It becomes an extension of your imagination to make something tangible and concrete. Alfonso Gomez-Rejon concretetangibleimagination Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal. Alfred Austin fancyrealimagination Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates nothing anew; it has no imagination. Alfred Binet understandingimaginationgiving There is something more important than logic: imagination Alfred Hitchcock logicimportantimagination Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. Alfred Hitchcock excitementsuspenseimagination A woman, I always say, should be like a good suspense movie: The more left to the imagination, the more excitement there is. This should be her aim - to create suspense, to let a man discover things about her without her having to tell him. Alfred Hitchcock imaginationrelationshipmen Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. ... The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not mysterious. And what could be more obvious than the old black velvet and pearls type? The perfect ‘woman of mystery’ is one who is blonde, subtle and Nordic. ... Although I do not profess to be an authority on women, I fear that the perfect title [for a movie], like the perfect woman is difficult to find. Alfred Hitchcock blackimaginationperfect Hitler [had an] excess of imagination, which very frequently foresaw what would happen but also very often went astray. Alfred Jodl excessimaginationhappens What need had the businessman to scribble or philosophize when he dominated the imagination of his time and the frantic materialism that was his principle of existence had become the haunting central figure in contemporary life? Alfred Kazin principlesimaginationneeds I admit that these terms and the diagrams connected with them repel some readers, and fill others with the vain imagination that they have mastered difficult economics problems, when really they have done little more than learn the language in which parts of those problems can be expressed, and the machinery by which they can be handled. When the actual conditions of particular problems have not been studied, such knowledge is little better than a derrick for sinking oil-wells erected where there are no oil-bearing strata. Alfred Marshall oildoneimagination«1234567891011»
