Imagination Quotes - Page 67

Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by a strong devotion to the Bible, which has kept our minds attached to the concrete and the living symbol.

War…next to love, has most captured the world’s imagination

Shame can kill the imagination. It's hard to keep writing in the face of cultural derision.

Perhaps people ought to feel with more imagination.

We overstate the ills of life, and take Imagination... down our earth to rake.

Hunger is isolating; it may not and cannot be experienced vicariously. He who never felt hunger can never know its real effects, both tangible and intangible. Hunger defies imagination; it even defies memory. Hunger is felt only in the present.

For one who is indifferent, life itself is a prison. Any sense of community is external or, even worse, nonexistent. Thus, indifference means solitude. Those who are indifferent do not see others. They feel nothing for others and are unconcerned with what might happen to them. They are surrounded by a great emptiness. Filled by it, in fact. They are devoid of all hope as well as imagination. In other words, devoid of any future.

Imitation, if noble and general, insures the best hope of originality.

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

It isn’t a big jump in the imagination to see yourself living alone like Mr Hoppy.

President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.

I admit to having an imagination feverish enough to melt good judgment.

Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience.

It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world.

I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination

The world is wonderful and beautiful and good beyond one's wildest imagination.

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.

Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.

Autobiography is never entirely true. No one can get the right perspective on himself. Every fact is colored by imagination and dream.

Using one's imagination to the fullest is necessary for a happy life.

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to the realms of imagination.

I worry that free imagination is overvalued, and I think this carries risks.

Imagination is a concentrated extract of all the forces of life.