Terry Brooks Quotes

Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

Terry Brooks

• Imagination
• Individual
• Entertainment
• Afternoon
• Ingenuity

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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

• Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.

  

  Malachy McCourt
  • Love
  • Reading
  • Powerful

• I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Good
  • School

• One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.

  

  Sam Levenson
  • Imagination
  • Young
  • Facts

• Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • America
  • Imagination
  • Size

• In my early teens, science fiction and fantasy had an almost-total hold over my imagination. Their outcast status was part of their appeal.

  

  Hari Kunzru
  • Science
  • Imagination
  • Early

• I love the medium and I love individual comics, but the business is nothing I would be proud of.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Business
  • Proud
  • Individual

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

  

  Carl Jung
  • Play
  • Imagination
  • Debt

• We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Important
  • Imagination
  • Look

• Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Way
  • Style
  • Individual

• 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

• Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • Art
  • Technology
  • Imagination

• 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
  • Work
  • Great
  • Simple

• Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Life
  • Time
  • Beautiful

• 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

• The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• Now, there are some who question the scale of our ambitions - who suggest that our system cannot tolerate too many big plans. Their memories are short. For they have forgotten what this country has already done; what free men and women can achieve when imagination is joined to common purpose, and necessity to courage.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• The sexiest thing about a bikini is that it leaves something to the imagination, which is the best part.

  

  Anna Sui
  • Imagination

• 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
  • Done
  • Stop
  • Present

• What the world of tomorrow will be like is greatly dependent on the power of imagination in those who are learning to read today.

  

  Astrid Lindgren
  • World
  • Power
  • Today

• So, thanks,” Vivian said. “For what?” I looked up at her, confused. “For being stupid enough to love your crazy, murdering lunatic of a sister and being such a pathetic dork that I couldn’t help but love you, too

  

  Kiersten White
  • Crazy
  • Stupid
  • Helping

• A man should inure himself to voluntary labor, and not give up to indulgence and pleasure, as they beget no good constitution of body nor knowledge of mind.

  

  Socrates
  • Mind
  • Man
  • Knowledge

• The New Lost City Ramblers are a very good comparison, actually. They really took the music seriously, and we take the music very seriously. But we don't take ourselves seriously at all.

  

  Winston Marshall Mumford & Sons
  • Music
  • Seriously
  • Comparison

• Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

  

  Terry Brooks
  • Imagination
  • Individual
  • Entertainment