Ethel Watts Mumford Quotes
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I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
C. S. Lewis
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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
Eddie Rickenbacker
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
Fay Wray
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It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.
H. L. Mencken
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
Yann Martel
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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
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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
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Action set pieces are my absolute favorite thing to write. I'm pretty much always in the mood to do them, but music certainly helps the process. I usually brainstorm out the dynamics and choreography of a fight to music beforehand - it gives me the little sparks of imagination when I get to the gaps in my own creativity.
Victoria Aveyard
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Imagination, devotion, perseverance, together with divine grace, will assure your success.
Haile Selassie
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The sexiest thing about a bikini is that it leaves something to the imagination, which is the best part.
Anna Sui
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I hope that with our music we can inspire other people to be creative and to use their imagination, because it is something that is so lacking nowadays. You have virtual reality, MTV, video games and VCR's. Nobody really wants to think about things or create things. You have programs on a computer which will write a poem for you.
Brian Hugh Warner
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Wipe out the imagination. Stop pulling the strings. Confine thyself to the present. ...Divide and distribute every object into the causal formal and the material. ...Let the wrong which is done by a man stay there where the wrong was done.
Marcus Aurelius
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That's why I love being a writer. My imagination can take me places I may never see except in my mind's eye.
Pearl Cleage
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I believe in the power of the imagination to remake the world, to release the truth within us, to hold back the night, to transcend death, to charm motorways, to ingratiate ourselves with birds, to enlist the confidences of madmen.
J. G. Ballard
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When I made my first film, I think the thing was probably helped me the most was that it was such an unusual thing to do in the early 50s for someone who actually go and make a film. People thought it was impossible. It really is terribly easy. All anybody needs is a camera, a tape recorder, and some imagination.
Stanley Kubrick
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If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.
Salman Rushdie
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A constitution that is made for all nations is made for none.
Joseph de Maistre
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Imagination makes cowards of us all.
Ethel Watts Mumford
