William Maxwell Quotes
If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.
Quotes to Explore
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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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The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
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Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world.
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Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.
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Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.
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We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.
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I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.
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I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.
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In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.
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Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
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I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.
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I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.
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Great abilities are not requisite for an Historian; for in historical composition, all the greatest powers of the human mind are quiescent. He has facts ready to his hand; so there is no exercise of invention. Imagination is not required in any high degree; only about as much as is used in the lower kinds of poetry.
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Imagination is an infinite resource that cannot be diminished by overuse or underuse.
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To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination - and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.
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There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
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We didn't get to see a lot of movies in my house growing up, so the first time I got to go to the movies - I think it was 'E.T.' - I was like, 'Oh my God, somebody else gets my imagination!'
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The Equal Rights Amendment would "turn holy wedlock into holy deadlock."
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Science fiction really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations.
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I'm estranged from my father and that relationship, as a young man, is incredibly important. It's probably responsible for the man I've become.
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The Sirens flicked their wings at the wall, inscribing it with their own blue ink: Even in penance is beauty; blessed are all the ocean’s drowned!
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Barefoot travel allows you to get the true feel of a place.
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If you turn the imagination loose like a hunting dog, it will often return with the bird in its mouth.
