3 December 2020 Michael Lindsay-Hogg I didn’t have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn’t have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn’t know where to put it.
3 December 2020 Christian Bale Essentially, I’m untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I’m going to be playing.
3 December 2020 Jill Clayburgh There’s no environment. Use your imagination. There’s no fourth wall, whether it’s the first time you’ve told this story about her life, or the sixth time.
3 December 2020 Edouard Manet It is not enough to know your craft – you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.
3 December 2020 Rachel Zoe I don’t think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It’s just more tasteful.
3 December 2020 David Korten It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world.
3 December 2020 Stella Adler One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We’re not scientists. We don’t always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.
3 December 2020 Frederick Henry Hedge Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
3 December 2020 Juno Temple I was brought up in a very open, rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your lights went out, you were lit by candlelight for a good four days before they can get to you. And so, my imagination was crazy.
3 December 2020 George Henry Lewes Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.
3 December 2020 Don Novello I’m kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.
3 December 2020 Alex Cox The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it’s a big problem.
3 December 2020 Deborah Ann Woll I think it’s fun to play with worlds that you can add a lot of your own imagination to. With ‘True Blood,’ you’re not limited by anything, there are just leaps and bounds of the imagination you can take with these characters.
3 December 2020 Stephen King Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you’re forced back on your own imagination.
3 December 2020 Duncan Sheik I wouldn’t say that I’ve had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.
3 December 2020 Frank Auerbach 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.
3 December 2020 Oliver Wendell Holmes Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
3 December 2020 Samuel Taylor Coleridge Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
3 December 2020 Mary Richards The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.
3 December 2020 Jeffrey Katzenberg What I love most about animation is, it’s a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.
3 December 2020 Ernest Hemingway Cowardice… is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
3 December 2020 Ernst Toller Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?
3 December 2020 Alessandro Nivola I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.
3 December 2020 Arthur Conan Doyle For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.
3 December 2020 William Warburton Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
