Imagination Quotes - Page 73

In film, a lot of the time you're not as engaged, it is all being given to you, and you're accepting it as it comes in, but in comics, as a reader, you are going to have to work, your imagination needs to do an awful lot.

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

The imagination is the workshop of the soul, where are shaped all the plans for individual achievement.

A man with no imaginations has no wings.

A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.

When you close the book, does the story end? No! That's such a bland way to read. Every story goes on forever in our imaginations, and its characters live on.

I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.

When you use your imagination anything can happen.

For with him the phantoms of the mind (which to the average man are merely phantoms) projected themselves with a bodily vividness and violence. Not only had they the colour and authority of accomplished fact, they were invested with an immortality denied to facts.

If freedom in the imagination is a privilege, it's one I believe everyone should have, as a basic human right. I also believe that poems not only make meaning, but are more often than not engaged in some way with our deepest human issues, be they personal or societal or political.

I'm a different writer now. You don't sit in a room with Sopranos creator David Chase and writer Terence Winter for four years and not learn something. And just watching the way the show was done, and watching the way that David encouraged the imagination.

The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.

Qualities absolutely necessary for a historian: (1) Imagination. (2) Prejudice. (3) The power of writing your own biography at the same time.

Leaving some areas less finished in a painting, or more out of focus than others, allows the imagination to finish them and gives more importance to the detailed parts.

Thought paceth like a hoary sage, but imagination hath wings as an eagle.

I think the imagination helps us move out of the purely oppositional mentality and see the world in a richer and more variegated way.

Now, isn't imagination a precious thing? It peoples the earth with all manner of wonders.

Reality is but a poor excuse for not having an imagination.

Not till the poets among us can be "literalists of the imagination"-above insolence and triviality and can present for inspection, "imaginary gardens with real toads in them." shall we have it.

Only imagination that towers can reproduce evanescence and render rigidity flexible.

You have to be careful what you imagine, because the act of imagining is the act of encouraging yourself to be a certain kind of person.

In the case of most pains let this remark of Epicurus aid thee, that the pain is neither intolerable nor everlasting, if thou bear in mind that it has its limits, and if thou addest nothing to it in imagination.

Don't let your imagination be crushed by life as a whole.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilliser.