Ethan Canin Quotes

I don't think there is such a thing as pure imagination. I think it's a combination of memory and invention.

Ethan Canin

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• No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and the like.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Imagination
  • Thought
  • Cats

• Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.

  

  Walt Disney
  • World
  • Long
  • Imagination

• I'm the youngest of four, but my closest sibling is 10 years older. I had a lot of imagination. I was running around playing little games by myself. But I never thought I was going to be an actor.

  

  Daniel Breaker
  • Running
  • Myself
  • Imagination

• All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Mind
  • Energy

• The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Play
  • Imagination
  • Debt

• The fictive structure, my work, my imagination, my books are about the details, the huge construction about culture, Islamic culture or modern Turkey. They're all intertwined.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • Work
  • Culture
  • Imagination

• I don't have a great imagination to share something with you that you don't know, so it's about interpreting things - a dialogue.

  

  Nate Lowman
  • Great
  • Know
  • Imagination

• The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Time
  • Future
  • Pain

• It was one of those perfect English autumnal days which occur more frequently in memory than in life.

  

  P. D. James
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Perfect

• Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Experience
  • Imagination

• My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • World
  • Imagination
  • Fool

• I might have created the phrase 'memory tools', but people have always found talismans to help them meditate into a state of hypnosis where they can access their past lives.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • People
  • Help
  • Past

• Mimicking the intricacies of the human brain, a neuro-inspired computer would work in a fashion similar to the way neurons and synapses communicate. It could potentially learn or develop memory.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Work
  • Fashion
  • Brain

• To be a liar, you've got to have a great memory, and I don't have a memory.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Great
  • Memory
  • Liar

• Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Children
  • Love
  • Imagination

• Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.

  

  Edgar Rice Burroughs
  • Imagination
  • Intelligence

• With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?

  

  Iain Sinclair
  • World
  • School
  • Family

• I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do, but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• It requires some intelligent reframing to make people see commonalities that they don't otherwise see. To me, the Tea Party and the Occupy movement are, in many ways, saying the same thing, but it requires a bit of imagination to get people to see that.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • People
  • Party
  • Imagination

• Not only did he teach by accomplishment, but he taught by the inspiration of a marvelous imagination that refused to accept the permanence of what appeared to others to be insuperable difficulties: an imagination of the goals of which, in a number of instances, are still in the realms of speculation.

  

  Edwin Armstrong
  • Imagination
  • Inspiration
  • Goals

• A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Imagination
  • Rapid
  • Lady`s

• My music is like a spinning ball. It can turn in one direction, and then it comes back to origins.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Music
  • Direction
  • Turn

• I have a sewing machine that I adore, and I spend a lot of time sitting in front of it when I'm not working. And any excuse to paint or draw or do something artistic with my hands really gets me going. Definitely aspiring.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Time
  • Me
  • Hands

• I don't think there is such a thing as pure imagination. I think it's a combination of memory and invention.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • Imagination
  • Memory
  • Combination