Imagination Quotes
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When the Idea, of any Pleasure strikes your Imagination... let that time be employed in making a just Computation between, the duration of the Pleasure, and that of the Repentance sure to follow it.
Epictetus -
Growing up in the country, you're left to the wilds of your imagination.
Cindy Williams
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No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man.
C. S. Lewis -
When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.
Terry Brooks -
I did spend a lot of time as a child very confused about whether I had a devil in me, or whether I was in a state of grace. I mean, these ideas are so potent to anybody with half an imagination.
Antony Gormley -
Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.
Ellen Terry -
There is no such thing as separation of church and state. It is merely a figment of the imagination of infidels.
W. A. Criswell -
Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.
John Millington Synge
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Compassion takes imagination.
Jennifer Beals -
Anger or revolt that does not get into the muscles remains a figment of the imagination.
Simone de Beauvoir -
Work up imagination to the state of vision.
William Blake -
There is rap music in all my films. In 'La Vie des Morts,' there is rap music too. It's because I'm French, and when it appeared in 1978, it was so new, it set off my musical imagination.
Arnaud Desplechin -
Growing up, my mom made us this amazing thing called The Mack Theatrical Wardrobe. It was a massive trunk filled with everything that you'd want as a kid if you were into imagination and play.
Allison Mack -
Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
Emil Cioran
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Imagination magnifies small objects with fantastic exaggeration until they fill our soul, and with bold insolence cuts down great things to its own size, as when speaking of God.
Blaise Pascal -
Sara Blair's Harlem Crossroads is an important addition to the body of literature that currently exists about Harlem. It brilliantly illuminates the complex relationship between photographic representation and race, and adds new insight into the ways in which this one black community has figured in both the critical and public imaginations. Harlem Crossroads is a tour de force.
Dawoud Bey -
A mission could be defined as an image of a desired state that you want to get to. Once fully seen, it will inspire you to act, fuel your imagination and determine your behavior.
Bill Vaughan -
What I find difficult about Buddhism, though it is also one of its significant fascinations, is the focus on what is immediately and physically present. To me, this seems a denial of the imagination, and the imagination is very important to me.
Quentin S. Crisp -
I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.
Cornelia Funke -
Is a brazen and innocent confrontation with paternal authority an unbearably terrifying prospect to some? Are the consequences of a fathers anger and displeasure so catastrophic in the primal imagination that every semblance of it in the world both literally and metaphorically must be denounced in the strongest possible terms? It would seem so.
Michael Leunig
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On a radio drama I'd like to feel that I had just as much chance of playing Mr Darcy as anyone else because I can sound like him, yet many radio producers find it very difficult to extend their imaginations to employing anyone who's non white.
Sanjeev Bhaskar -
It's beyond imagination until you actually get up and see it and experience it and feel it.
William C. McCool -
The Mafia exists in the American imagination because we want it to exist.
Pete Hamill -
I am more connected to the world of the imagination, but you don't have to have polio to do that.
Ben Lewin