Quotes by Imagination Social life is filled with doubts and vain aspirings; solitude, when the imagination is dethroned, is turned to weariness and ennui. Letitia Elizabeth Landon solitudeimaginationdoubt The old proverb, applied to fire and water, may with equal truth be applied to the imagination - it is a good servant, but a bad master. Letitia Elizabeth Landon imaginationfirewater Maybe there is a single spot, just one, where living organisms are holed up. Maybe so, but if so this would be the strangest thing of all, absolutely incomprehensible. For we are not familiar with this kind of living. We do not have solitary, isolated creatures. It is beyond our imagination to conceive of a single form of life that exists alone and independent, unattached to other forms. Lewis Thomas independentimaginationwould-be I had to learn that a good actor, like an iceberg, reveals only a small part of his ability on the surface. You suggest; you don't serve on a platter. You hold back. You don't expose it all to view. That's the way to put the audience's imagination to work. Lilli Palmer actorsimaginationviews The faculty of imagination is both the rudder and the bridle of the senses. Leonardo da Vinci ruddersfacultyimagination Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination. Lily Tomlin figmentsimaginationsometimes It is no small benefit on finding oneself in bed in the dark to go over again in the imagination the main lines of the forms previously studied, or other noteworthy things conceived by ingenious speculation. Leonardo da Vinci linesimaginationdark Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - never imagine yourself not to be otherwise than what it might appear to others that what you were or might have been was not otherwise than what you had been would have appeared to them to be otherwise. Lewis Carroll wonderlandimaginationidentity Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's life in space-time colored his liberated life of the imagination. Lewis Carroll spaceimaginationtime The imagination is to the effect as the shadow to the opaque body which causes the shadow. Leonardo da Vinci shadowbodyimagination I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!' Linda Grant coffeeimaginationbook Since I write the lyrics, I don't want to be pigeonholed into a person who's out there preaching these songs. If you read the lyrics, there isn't a story being set up for you. You have to use your imagination to get the best out of the songs - if you choose to do that. Linda Perry imaginationwritingsong Not working in journalism enables full attention to writing projects, which is good. But I miss the benefits of daily contact with people who are younger, energetic, engaged. And the necessary involvement with people and places and situations that enrich the imagination. I miss the enforced encounters with unusual projections of reality. Linden MacIntyre imaginationwritingreality Unless we insist that politics is imagination and mind, we will learn that imagination and mind are politics, and of a kind we will not like. Lionel Trilling kindimaginationmind I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be an integral part of all God's joyous world. Leo Tolstoy imaginationmindworld But I know also that still more interesting discoveries will be made that I have not the imagination to describe - and I am awaiting them, full of curiosity and enthusiasm. Linus Pauling imaginationdiscoveryinteresting There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination. Lionel Trilling imaginationclassideas I really like Kickstarter because you don't have to be a Medici to fund the arts and sciences or to get behind a big idea or a person that sparks your imagination. It's a type of microfunding directed toward creators. Lisa Gansky imaginationideasart I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing. Lisi Harrison focusimaginationathlete Freedom, to me, is imagination, the power of imagination to create what we want and be who we want to be. Lizzie West power-of-imaginationimaginationwant«919293949596979899100101»
