Imagination Quotes - Page 99

There is a mystery about this which stimulates the imagination; where there is no imagination there is no horror.

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.

A lover exists only in fragments, a dozen or so if the romance is new, a thousand if we're married to him, and out of those fragments our heart constructs an entire person. What we each create, since whatever is missing is filled by our imagination, is the person we wish him to be. The less we know him, of course, the more we love him. And that's why we always remember that first rapturous night when he was a stranger, and why this rapture returns only when he's dead.

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.

The mere word freedom is the only one that still excites me. I deem it capable of indefinitely sustaining the old human fanaticism. It doubtless satisfies my only legitimate aspiration. Among all the many misfortunes to which we are heir, it is only fair to admit that we are allowed the greatest degree of freedom of thought. It is up to us not to misuse it. To reduce the imagination to a state of slavery-even though it would mean the elimination of what is commonly called happiness-is to betray all sense of absolute justice within oneself.

Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death

Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

It's incredible how much stamina you can find when you're fighting and enemy in battle, even if that enemy is just in your imagination.

With imagination, we can hold a universe inside our minds.

Science has helped us to understand and master ourselves, creating an elevated new form of human life, the wealth and beauty of which cannot be pictured today by the keenest imagination.

No one knows the nature of God, or even if God exists. In a sense, all of our religions are literary works of the imagination.

By travelling across frontiers, on horseback and in the imagination, Montaigne invited us to to exchange local prejudices and the self division they induced for less constraining identities as citizens of the world.

'Mr Selfridge' is a lot more accessible than shows like 'Downton.' Everyone knows the store, but not everyone knows the story. Having this store as the backdrop with all of society working under one roof, I think it really captures people's imagination.

Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.

Imagination is so much more fertile than life.

India is a place where all stories are possible. You forget that the imagination can take hold of anything and contemplate it and love it and describe it.

In a movie, you need good actors, whereas in a book, you don't, unless you have a really bad imagination. In a book, your imagination will do the acting for you. Also, the process of revelation is often different. Tension is achieved in a different way.

What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.

The imagination made us human, but being human, becoming more human, is a greater burden than we imagined. We have no choice but to imagine ourselves more human than we are.

I have a hyper-active imagination, my mind tends to jump around a little, and I have some trouble between fantasy and reality.

The beauty of a democracy is that you never can tell when a youngster is born what he is going to do with himself, and that no matter how humbly he is born, no matter where he is born, no matter what circumstances hamper him at the outset, he has got a chance to master the minds and lead the imaginations of the whole country.

There is required for the composition of a great commander not only massive common sense and reasoning power, not only imagination, but also an element of legerdemain, an original and sinister touch, which leaves the enemy puzzled as well as beaten.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.