Quotes about imagination
imagination people fancy
How potent is the fancy! People are so impressionable, they can die of imagination. Geoffrey Chaucer
imagination people literature
People can die of mere imagination.
imagination trying i-can
I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can. Franz Schubert
imagination people magic
To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination. Frank Auerbach
imagination chess initiative
Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative. Christian Morgenstern
imagination wonder
Imagination is as close as we will ever be to godhead . . . for in imagination, we can create wonders. Chris Wooding
imagination house body
Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic. George Steiner
imagination narrative accepted
Merkel has realized that the euro is not working, but she cannot change the narrative she has created because that narrative has caught the imagination of the German public, and the German public has accepted it. George Soros
imagination hiding direct
Direct experience is the evasion, or hiding place of those devoid of imagination. Fernando Pessoa
imagination literature comic
Peellaert's comic strips were the literature of intelligence, imagination and romanticism. Federico Fellini
imagination
The picture is in your head, in your imagination, everything.
imagination photograph
I like photographs which leave something to the imagination. Fay Godwin
imagination brain development
It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images. Ezra Pound
imagination understanding mind
The human understanding is moved by those things most which strike and enter the mind simultaneously and suddenly, and so fill the imagination; and then it feigns and supposes all other things to be somehow, though it cannot see how, similar to those few things by which it is surrounded. Francis Bacon
imagination missing enough
We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing. Jean Toomer
imagination fool opinion
Imitators are a slavish herd and fools in my opinion. Jean de La Fontaine
imagination rooms ordinary
Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination. Jhumpa Lahiri
imagination awakened ought
The imagination, once awakened, must and will work, and ought to work Harriet Martineau
imagination judgment fanaticism
Fanaticism is governed by imagination rather than judgment. Harriet Beecher Stowe
imagination vision inspired
My imagination has always been inspired by nature’s vision Gregory Colbert
imagination special actors
[There's] nothing special about an actor's imagination, except that he uses it a lot. Ian Mckellen
imagination novel limitation
In a novel, the only budgetary limitations are that of your imagination. Howard Gordon
imagination may rays
A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries. George Berkeley
imagination poetry intelligence
You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live. George Bernard Shaw
imagination misfortunes
Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza. Franz Kafka
imagination universal
The wonderful thing is, imagination is universal all over the world, no matter what the language is. Roy Horn
imagination level smarter studio
I've never really had a problem with the imagination level of an audience. They're always smarter and savvier than any studio exec will give them credit for. James Van Der Beek
imagination proven
I've proven I'm courageous. I'm gutsier than anybody; I've got a better imagination than anybody; I'm essentially more creative than any other actor I know, and I've proven I take risks. I don't think I need to prove anything to myself any more. Michael Keaton
imagination known lever moral
The mightiest lever known to the moral world, imagination. William Wordsworth
imagination shades wonders work
Then their imagination could work wonders upon wonders and invoke the shades of the philosophers, who would instruct them in their art. Paracelsus
imagination takes
takes a lot of imagination, and frankly, my imagination was pretty much absorbed by my children. Jill Clayburgh
imagination song stretch trunk
It's not a trunk song by any stretch of the imagination, Martin Charnin
imagination people
It really stretches the imagination to see what people have come up with. Paul Myers