680 private quotes tagged imagination

“Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.” — Ishmael Reed

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“The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.” — John Desmond Bernal

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“Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.” — David E. Kelley

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“He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.” — Harvey Keitel

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“Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.” — Phylicia Rashad

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“What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.” — Phylicia Rashad

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“Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.” — William Robertson Smith

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“Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.” — Marcello Mastroianni

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“Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.” — John Cameron

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“The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.” — James A. Michener

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“Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.” — Christopher Isherwood

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“While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.” — Frank Rich

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“I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.” — Michael D. Higgins

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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.” — Karl Philipp Moritz

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“Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.” — Daniel Bell

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“Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.” — Agnes Smedley

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“Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.” — Guy Fieri

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“Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.” — Judy Blume

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“Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.” — Lara St. John

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“To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.” — Frank Auerbach

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“Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.” — Philip Roth

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“Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.” — Rob Bell

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“Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.” — Jack Prelutsky

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“Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.” — Jack Prelutsky

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“The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.” — Matthew Sweet

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