Imagination Quotes - Page 113

If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination.

I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.

I always seek to mobilize, to call on the imagination of the spectator. It's well-known that the images that are created by one's imagination are far stronger than any that I can show. In fact, it's an error, a widespread error in mainstream cinema, to always want to show things and to depict things.

The talent for self-justification is surely the finest flower of human evolution, the greatest achievement of the human brain. When it comes to justifying actions, every human being acquires the intelligence of an Einstein, the imagination of a Shakespeare, and the subtlety of a Jesuit.

I can imagine anything except having no imagination.

I certainly incorporate facts into my fiction. I take the basic facts from the life of my subject and I pick and choose what to use to construct a really interesting novel. I don't let facts get in the way of my imagination and my exploration of the subject's emotions and relationships.

There are two gods in this universe: God and Imagination. Both of them can design and create infinite creations.

Lilly says I have an overactive imagination and a pathological need to invent drama in my life.

Imagination is the capacity to think of things as if they could be otherwise.

I would like to be a figment of my own imagination, but belly and bowels will not permit.

Memory is imagination pinned down.

I can imagine many things, but few clearly.

We don't experience things collectively or cathartically anymore. Viewing has become an intensely private, fetishistic, compulsive process that happens separately from others, and that reflects not only our relation to cinema as a space of possibility, belief, and imagination. But more generally, of what could be, of readiness, which is what the movies have historically been about - the ability to act on things and change.

For any kind of reading I think better than leaving a blank still a blank, because the mind must receive a degree of enlargement and obtain a little strength by a slight exertion of its thinking powers; besides, even the productions that are only addressed to the imagination, raise the reader a little above the gross gratification of appetites, to which the mind has not given a shade of delicacy.

I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.

For both writer and reader, the novel is a lonely, physically inactive affair. Only the imagination races.

Part of what the imagination does later in life is it's linking you not just to who you are now but to all the people you've been.

Stop being so fruitlessly busy and dream. Use your imagination. Reach out into the unknown and dream of how you can enlarge your experience and improve your mind and your soul and your world.

He had no imagination either-fatal for one engaged in child-rearing

Men as yet need some help to their imagination. There remains still room for a little illusion. It is better for men, it is better for women, that each somewhat idealize the other. Much is lost when life has lost its atmosphere, and is reduced to naked fact.

Experimental architecture by its very nature is more prone to the depredations of time and natural elements than buildings made from conventional materials through traditional methods. Avant-garde architects often simply do not know how the products of their imagination will perform when implemented, especially if untested components are involved.

the English don't go in for imagination: imagination is considered to be improper if not downright alarmist.

Imagination is the doorway you walk through into every future moment. Are you walking through doorways to pain or to joy?

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Imagination labors best in distant fields.