Imagination Quotes - Page 47

If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself. Movies show you the pink house. A good book tells you there's a pink house and lets you paint some of the finishing touches, maybe choose the roof style,park your own car out front. My imagination has always topped anything a movie could come up with. Case in point, those darned Harry Potter movies. That was so not what that part-Veela-chick, Fleur Delacour, looked like.

The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.

There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.

The worst advice a young writer can get is "Write what you know." Imagination is more important than experience.

The guitar to me, from the classical/gut-string guitar right through to Hendrix, et cetera, has all the range [of sound]. Within those six strings it is incredible what one can get sound-wise. It's just down to imagination, really.

Imagination is the beginning of reality.

It's always been pretty easy for me to exercise my imagination. The other part of the brain, the one that does mathematics, is a nightmare for me. It doesn't work at all.

you pay a price for the 'gift' of an active imagination. While mine played a major part in making me a writer, it also made me adept at transforming run-of-the-mill molehills into towering mountain ranges.

Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality.

I am very frustrated by fear of imagination, I don’t think that’s healthy.

Life is glorious when it is happy; days are carefree when they are happy; the interplay of thought and imagination is far superior to that of muscle and sinew.

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.

The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.

Imagination is a poor substitute for experience.

One of the best things about aging is being able to watch imagination overtake memory.

Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper.

I hate deception, even where the imagination only is concerned.

An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.

The historian has before him a jigsaw puzzle from which many pieces have disappeared. These gaps can be filled only by his imagination.

If we are to love our neighbors, before doing anything else we must see our neighbors. With our imagination as well as our eyes, that is to say like artists, we must see not just their faces but the life behind and within their faces. Here it is love that is the frame we see them in.

The very remoteness kindles the imagination of the adventurous hunter. From the top of any mountain the challenge extends far and wide, until the mountains meet the sky.

my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.

Never forget that the key of the situation lies in the will & not in the imagination.

The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worship God.' If that ceases to be the primary thing I do in terms of my energy, my imagination, and the way I structure my life, then I no longer function as a pastor.