Imagination Quotes - Page 58

One's range [of ideas] is limited by one's interests and imagination and by one's passion.

The key to life is imagination. If you don't have that, no mater what you have, it's meaningless. If you do have imagination...you can make feast of straw.

Sex has to do with imagination, so the sky is the limit. If you're not doing bodily harm, why shouldn't you do what turns you on?

No leadership, no ideas. Not even enough imagination to thump someone in the line-up when the ref wasn't looking.

The dwarves of course are quite obviously, couldn't you say that in many ways they remind you of the Jews? Their words are Semitic obviously, constructed to be Semitic. Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects (in general) the small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power.

When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in our imagination. The sequence of pictures plays directly on our feelings.

Wasn't writing a kind of soaring, an achievable form of flight, of fancy, of the imagination?

I used to think that when I set out that doing the research was enough! But then the gaps would emerge that could only be filled by the imagination. And imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.

Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates.

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.

All good novelists have bad memories. What you remember comes out as journalism; what you forget goes into the compost of the imagination.

A photographer without imagination is not a good photographer.

The original quality in any man of imagination is imagery.

The imagination is a place all by itself. A separate country. Now, you've heard of the French nation, the British nation. Well, this is the Imagi-nation. It's a wonderful place.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

Ideal society is a drama enacted exclusively in the imagination.

Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not.

Man is like a tree, with the mighty trunk of intellect, the spreading branches of imagination, and the roots of the lower instincts that bind him to the earth. The moral life, however, is the fruit he bears; in it his true nature is revealed.

Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism.

Do not confuse fantasy with imagination; the former consumes itself in daydreaming, the latter stimulates creativity in the arts and in the sciences.

The source of genius is imagination alone.

The source of genius is imagination alone, the refinement of the senses that sees what others do not see, or sees them differently.

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.