Quotes by Imagination When a certain show or film or celebrity captures the imagination of the masses that has a good deal to say about us, I think, and what is happening in our collective psyche. Laurie Foos filmimaginationthinking If we lacked imagination enough to foresee something better, life would indeed be a tragedy. Laurence J. Peter tragedyimaginationenough [T]hese last few days where I've moped around damn near depressed for real, because of people who do not exist. Not really. I can buy them Christmas presents, but there is no way to send them. Sometimes I feel like I should be able to walk into the next room and there they will be, but they won't. These people do not exisit as flesh and blood, but there are different kinds of reality, and there are days when imagination feels very, very real. Laurell K. Hamilton realimaginationblood Mr. Freeman sighs. "No imagination. What are you thirteen? Fourteen? You've already let them beat your creativity out of you! Laurie Halse Anderson beatscreativityimagination I now believe that the only way in which Americans can rise above their ordinariness, can mature sufficiently to rescue themselves and to help rescue their planet, is through enthusiastic intimacy with works of their own imagination. Kurt Vonnegut imaginationbelieveway When a poor disconsolated drooping creature is terrified from all enjoyment,--prays without ceasing 'till his imagination is heated,--fasts and mortifies and mopes, till his body is in as bad a plight as his mind; is it a wonder, that the mechanical disturbancesof an empty belly, interpreted by an empty head, should be mistook for [the] workings [of God]. Laurence Sterne plightimaginationmind When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations. Lawrence Hill taxesunderstandingimagination The violence inherent in our systems and structures of power is a part of who we are - our thoughts, sensibilities, imaginations, language. We live in manifestations of it - permanent war, environmental destrucution, poverty, racism, misogyny, the assault on labor, torture in our prisons, capital punishment - a corporate capitalist state controlled by oligarchical interests for their own private profit and gain. Lawrence Joseph imaginationracismwar Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations. Lawrence Ferlinghetti shadowpoetryimagination A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa. Lawrence M. Krauss imaginationmeanreality The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it. Lawrence M. Krauss realimaginationinteresting For why are we here if not to try to fathom one another? Not through facts alone, but with the full extent of our imaginations. And what are stories if not tools for imagining? Leah Hager Cohen toolsimaginationtrying The most sustained feat of imagination in mystery fiction today. Lee Child imaginationtodayfiction Everyone is good at something, and you'll come to find out that the more you Lee Simonson treasureimaginationjewels Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. Lemmy Kilmister readingimaginationuse "Le génie n'est qu'une longue patience", a dit Buffon. Cela est bien incomplet. Le génie, c'est l'impatience dans les idées et la patience dans les faits : une imagination vive et un jugement calme; quelque chose comme un liquide en ébullition dans un vase qui reste toujours froid. "Genius is just enduring patience," said Buffon. This is far from complete. Genius is impatience in ideas and patience with the facts: a lively imagination and a calm judgment, rather like a liquid boiling in a cup that remains cold. Leo Errera geniusimaginationideas "Genius is just enduring patience," said Buffon. This is far from complete. Genius is impatience in ideas and patience with the facts: a lively imagination and a calm judgment, rather like a liquid boiling in a cup that remains cold. Leo Errera imaginationscienceideas Great writers zealously learn the craft of their profession so they can release the power and the depth of their imagination and experience. Leonard Bishop craftsdepthimagination The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us, all of you, are endowed with the powers of fantasy. Leonard Bernstein artistimaginationmean You can sit there, tense and worried, freezing the creative energies, or you can start writing something. It doesn't matter what. In five or ten minutes, the imagination will heat, the tightness will fade, and a certain spirit and rhythm will take over. Leonard Bernstein creativeimaginationwriting«8990919293949596979899»
