Quotes by Imagination In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman. J. C. Watts oklahomaimaginationchildren Maybe there are times when mystery is more important than knowledge. I realized that the white page is a magic box. Ultimately, the mistery box is all of us. Ubiquitous technologies. What comes next ? Mystery as catalyst for imagination. J. J. Abrams technologyimaginationwhite The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic. J. G. Ballard imaginationpeoplefiction Nothing is worse than what we can imagine. J. M. Coetzee imagineimagination Childhood, catching our imagination when it is fresh and tender, never lets go of us. J. B. Priestley imaginationletting-gochildren It is necessary to mark the greater from the lesser truth: namely the larger and more liberal idea of nature from the comparatively narrow and confined; namely that which addresses itself to the imagination from that which is solely addressed to the eye. J. M. W. Turner eyeimaginationideas The endless newsreel clips of nuclear explosions that we saw on TV in the 1960s (were) a powerful incitement to the psychotic imagination, sanctioning *everything*. J. G. Ballard sawspowerfulimagination Imagination is ... the foundation of all invention and innovation. J. K. Rowling foundationinnovationimagination I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations. J. J. Abrams imaginationtryingpeople What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and this the Christian has in a way that no other person has. For what higher, more exalted, and more compelling goal can there be than to know God? J. I. Packer imaginationgoalchristian death - a passage outside the range of imagination, but within the range of experience. Isak Dinesen rangepassagesimagination Imagination is the hotbed where this sin is too often hatched. Guard your thoughts, and there will be little fear about your actions. J. C. Ryle imaginationactionlittles I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actors need to act all the time to make up for some deficiency in their sense of themselves. J. G. Ballard imaginationexercisereality I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst. J. G. Ballard imaginationminddoors The catastrophe story, whoever may tell it, represents a constructive and positive act by the imagination rather than a negative one, an attempt to confront the terrifying void of a patently meaningless universe by challenging it at its own game. [. . .] Each one of these fantasies represents an arraignment of the finite, an attempt to dismantle the formal structure of time and space which the universe wraps around us at the moment we first achieve consciousness. J. G. Ballard spaceimaginationgames The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of his imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. What he is to imagine is a matter for his own caprice; he is not thereby discovering the fundamental principles of the universe nor becoming acquainted with the ideas of God. J. W. N. Sullivan imaginationmathideas The mathematician is entirely free, within the limits of the imagination, to construct what worlds he pleases. J. W. N. Sullivan imaginationmathworld As writers, we can do whatever we want to. We're only limited by our imaginations. What an amazing, incredible time to be alive. How lucky we all are. J.A. Konrath aliveluckyimagination His icebergs are strange monuments with a symbol embodied in their form and their colours. They do not freeze you when you look at them, for they are not of ice, they are what Lawren Harris feels and thinks after he has contemplated them J. D. Salinger iceimaginationthinking The Dude just pounded his way in a straight line, convinced that the lion was a figment of his imagination and that the vampire ahead of him was just Grendel's deformed mutant brother. Ilona Andrews vampireimaginationbrother«6263646566676869707172»
