Arthur Dove Quotes
It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.
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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.
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Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.
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Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
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I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
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I changed my name at 14 because no one outside of my family could pronounce my first name correctly.
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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.
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I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.
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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
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The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
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I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.
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I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
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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?
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Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
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Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.
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Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.
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Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination take place. It's enough just to be without hypocrisy, dogmatism, arrogance - embracing all opposites.
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What fascinated my imagination was the tremendous feat, which I felt I should be perfectly able to accomplish.
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I am guided by the same intelligence and inspired by the same imagination which scatters the moon beams across the waves and holds the forces of nature in it's grasp.
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Frankly, the trouble with winter is, it is all backbone. It is fleshless, insensate, with neither a breast to be leaned on nor a heart to love and ache and, if need be, break, nor any kindly hand to fondle and caress like a sea-wave on a sunny shore half asleep.
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Man cannot degrade woman without himself falling into degradation; he cannot elevate her without at the same time elevating himself.
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A turn, a screw, a pull, a twist, the drug that makes you prettiest.
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I wasn't a big guy. People thought the big guys would eat me up. But it was the other way around. I loved to fight bigger guys.
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It is the form the idea takes in the imagination rather than the form as it exists outside.
