Imagination Quotes
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Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some for love of slaughter, in imagination, learning later . . . some in fear, learning love of slaughter; Died some, pro patria, non "dulce" non "et decor" . walked eye-deep in hell believing in old men's lies, the unbelieving came home, home to a lie.
Ezra Pound -
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's life in space-time colored his liberated life of the imagination.
Lewis Carroll
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A little imagination goes a long way in Fes.
Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi -
Sometimes, to stimulate your imagination you have to be careful you don't have too much information. You can Google something, and it's in your face, pow! You don't have time to dream any more about it.
Dries van Noten -
The imagination is a pretty precious source of protection.
Nicholas Ray -
The function of the flashback is Freudian...You have to let them wander like the imagination or like a dream.
Sergio Leone -
To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.
Donald Sutherland -
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
Charles de Gaulle
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Of course, I had a paradigm of a certain city in my head when I wrote these stories, a city that inspired my imagination, but it was only inspiration.
Said Sayrafiezadeh -
Creativity, as I see it, is the process of putting your imagination to work. It's been defined rather simply as applied imagination. That's not a bad way to think about it.
Ken Robinson -
One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.
Alan Rickman -
From an early age, I had always loved drawing. Laying on the floor, in front of the fire, drawing from my imagination, marching soldiers, dive bombers, spaceships and monsters. Now, suddenly, I was drawing from real life!
Michael Foreman -
I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination.
Colm Toibin -
They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.
Margaret Mahy
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I've got no problem being on my own. I like the way my imagination works.
Jamie Hince -
A writer loses possession of her work as soon as it's reaches its audience. Each reader brings his own experience and prejudice and imagination to the work. Television adaptation just goes one step further, and the novelist has to learn to let go.
Ann Cleeves -
Imagination and invention go hand in hand. Remember how lack of resources was never a problem in childhood games? Shift a few pieces of furniture around the living room, and you have yourself a fort.
Alexandra Adornetto -
Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.
William Blake -
Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.
Denise Levertov -
Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts.
William Shakespeare
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Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.
Ken Robinson -
There's no reason for your imagination to be fettered by money.
Kevin McCloud -
I think that a good deal of poetry and art gives us some sense of access to another's voice, perception, texture of thought, imagination. Sometimes it gives us better access to the strangeness in ourselves.
Mary Szybist -
I always ask the booksellers to look at me and recommend a book; 9 out of 10, they get it right; it’s usually a book about someone dysfunctional. To me bookstores are like brothels of imagination, each book is luring me over going, 'Read me, read me'.
Ruby Wax