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There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.
[Fiction and poetry] are medicines, they're doses, and they heal the rupture that reality makes on the imagination.
The creative universe begins with its essentiality, and, whatever path the imagination takes, ends with its purity.
It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.
Boundary lines, of any type, are never found in the real world itself, but only in the imagination of the mapmakers.
Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.
I don't define myself as an actor at all. Nor is that my greatest passion in life by any stretch of the imagination.
Soul, a particle of God, is blessed with the gift of creative imagination, which finds a solution for every problem.
Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.
For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.
My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.
Assuming that we have trained our imagination to denounce the past, we will not suffer much from unfulfilled wishes.
The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.
The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.
Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.
Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.
I'm not a dancer, so I have to find a movement that belongs to me. I dance within my limits and with my imagination.
What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination.
Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!
Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.
A man is made in the rough-and-tumble of the world a lady emerges from the flossy back rooms of her own imagination.
Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.
To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.
Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.
I understood that life is lived most fully in the imagination - that, ironically, imagination is the key to reality.
Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them.
Imagination guides you in your contacts with individuals and crowds, so you can discover new concepts and approaches.
I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.
The power of imagination created the illusion that my vision went much farther than the naked eye could actually see.
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
Metaphors think with the imagination and the senses. The hot chili peppers in them explode in the mouth and the mind.
We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.
By the time you rise through the ranks, the culture of homogenization has bred the spirit and imagination out of you.
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future.
Wit is the appearance, the external flash, of fantasy. Hence its divinity and the similarity to the wit of mysticism.
Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.
To get such beauty from something that has been produced from the artist's own imagination appealed to me enormously.
If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.
I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.
I think acting is totally conducive to being a little kid, because kids are less inhibited and use their imagination.
The revolution cannot be funded. It's not the imagination of trusts and foundations that's going to bring real change.
Dollar bills have absolutely no value except in our collective imagination, but everybody believes in the dollar bill.
Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear.
Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.
Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity.
Halloween is not only about putting on a costume, but it's about finding the imagination and costume within ourselves.
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.