My Imagination Quotes - Page 13

• Our bread need not ever be sour or hard to digest. What Nature is to the mind she is also to the body. As she feeds my imagination, she will feed my body; for what she says she means, and is ready to do. She is not simply beautiful to the poet's eye. Not only the rainbow and sunset are beautiful, but to be fed and clothed, sheltered and warmed aright, are equally beautiful and inspiring. There is not necessarily any gross and ugly fact which may not be eradicated from the life of man.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Nature, Mean

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.132, Jazzybee Verlag

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• As a hobbyist, there's something about miniature anything that captures my imagination.

  Ed Helms

  Imagination, Capture, Miniatures

  "Q&A: Ed Helms on Nerdom and How He Almost Destroyed His Hands for Mumford & Sons". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. September 6, 2013.

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• I certainly incorporate facts into my fiction. I take the basic facts from the life of my subject and I pick and choose what to use to construct a really interesting novel. I don't let facts get in the way of my imagination and my exploration of the subject's emotions and relationships.

  Melanie Benjamin

  Imagination, Interesting, Fiction

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• When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was, and that my real parents were going to come get me. I was just too different from the rest of the family, so I lived in books and in my imagination.

  Gloria Steinem

  Real, Book, Imagination

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

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• There is a core of loneliness. It's partly existential. Secondly, I was raised a loner. My parents were not there. My father was asked to leave because he couldn't metabolize ethanol. Actually, my mother ran away with us when I was 2 months old and my brother was 5. Real dramatic stuff: down the fire escape, through backyards. So, I sort of raised myself. I was alone a lot and I invented myself - I lived through the radio and through my imagination.

  George Carlin

  Mother, Brother, Father

  Interview with Ricky Young, www.motherjones.com. March/April 1997.

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• I don't really know what Americans are like. I've no idea. I know a few things about them. In my imagination, they have warm peachy hearts, whereas the English have horrible spiteful withered hearts - success in England inspires envy - in America, it inspires hope.

  Sebastian Horsley

  Heart, Ideas, America

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I don't like super-descriptive modern fiction. I like, "Here's what was happening in 1582 all over the planet." Then that gets my imagination going.

  Andrew Bird

  Imagination, Fiction, Modern

  Interview with Genevieve Koski, music.avclub.com. January 20, 2009.

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• Specific music starts feeding my imagination and gives me a landscape that corresponds somehow, in some abstract way, to the world I'm just starting to imagine.

  Jim Jarmusch

  Giving, Imagination, World

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. May 8, 2009.

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• If there's something more awaiting me in the future, I'd rather leave it up to God since what He creates is far better than my imagination.

  Oleta Adams

  Imagination, Ifs

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• I've always been introverted and so from a very young age I would play different scenarios in my head and let my imagination run free.

  Matthew Carter

  Running, Play, Imagination

  Source: darkagefiction.wordpress.com

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• As a species, we create tools to control our environment. What excites my imagination is wilderness: our materials' ability to escape our control.

  James Arthur

  Imagination, Tools, Environment

  "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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• A novel, for me, relies on my imagination to inspire your (the reader's) imagination. It is not all there for you. My novels or my stories come to me visually. I use words to translate the novel I see inside my head into words that I hope will create a movie inside your head.

  Jay Neugeboren

  Imagination, Inspire, Stories

  Source: www.jewishbookcouncil.org

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• Besides the soothing effect it has, I think my favorite part of writing is being able to use my imagination and creativity to make new ideas and people and situations come to life.

  Christopher Paul Curtis

  Writing, Creativity, Thinking

  Source: www.bookbrowse.com

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• I think that's the problem with kids now. Everything is manufactured. And then they're sitting there watching the television, where all the work is done for them. Radio made me use my imagination.

  Terry Gilliam

  Kids, Thinking, Imagination

  "Terry Gilliam’s Three-Reel Circus". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. December 16, 2009.

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• Well, I have an idea, usually a visual image of some sort. A setting. A particular, I don't know, urban scene, a particular time of day. Something that grips my imagination for some reason.

  Philip Pullman

  Ideas, Imagination, Urban

  "His Grimm Materials: A Conversation With Philip Pullman". Interview with Michael Mechanic, www.motherjones.com. November/December 2012.

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• I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Writing, Imagination, Tragedy

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• All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.

  Tommy Lee Jones

  Imagination, Creative, Important

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• At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis, science, and learning Henry’s language, entering Henry’s world. I wanted to destroy by violence and animalism my tenuous fantasies and illusions and my hypersensitivity. A kind of suicide. The ignominy awakened me. Then June came and answered the cravings of my imagination and saved me. Or perhaps she killed me, for now I am started on a course of madness.

  Anais Nin

  Suicide, June, Imagination

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• This world is but a canvas to our imagination.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspirational, Life, Inspiring

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.208, Xist Publishing

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• It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Anger, Heart, Imagination

  Henry David Thoreau (2006). “Thoreau and the Art of Life: Precepts and Principles”, p.9, Heron Dance Press

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• While the astronauts, heroes forever, spent mere hours on the moon, I have remained in this new world for nearly thirty years. I know that my achievement is quite ordinary. I am not the only man to seek his fortune far from home, and certainly I am not the first. Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination." (from "The Third and Final Continent")

  Jhumpa Lahiri

  Hero, Home, Moon

  FaceBook post by Jhumpa Lahiri from Aug 05, 2011

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• Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

  C. S. Lewis

  Order, Imagination, Literature

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• Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.

  Terry Pratchett

  Reading, Imagination, Upset

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Dec 07, 2016

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• But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

  Abel Ferrara

  Imagination, Cost, Limits

  "Abel Ferrara: 'I made Scarface look like Mary Poppins" by Andrew Purcell, www.theguardian.com. August 5, 2010.

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• For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.

  Hugo Pratt

  Imagination, Chance, Has Beens

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