3 December 2020 Maria Callas An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I’ve left the opera house.
3 December 2020 Arnold J. Toynbee Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
3 December 2020 Rob Bell Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn’t there anymore.
3 December 2020 Derek Jacobi I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.
3 December 2020 Edmund Wilson The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations – like that of artistic imagination.
3 December 2020 Vincent Van Gogh Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.
3 December 2020 Susan Sarandon When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
3 December 2020 Karl Kraus If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
3 December 2020 Hedy Lamarr If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude… I hope to make you use your imagination.
3 December 2020 Phil Harris In those days, it didn’t take much imagination to come up with something that required great lyric development skills. You just thought of an experience that you might have gone through, and write it down.
3 December 2020 Kristen Stewart I don’t want to discredit people’s individuality, but I think people are pretty much the same. People are very similar. If you have a good enough imagination then you can feel things that you personally have never done before. That’s acting.
3 December 2020 Lucius Annaeus Seneca We are more often frightened than hurt and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.
3 December 2020 Samuel Dash When you believe in what you’re doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.
3 December 2020 Horace Walpole Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn’t. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.
3 December 2020 Vladimir Nabokov Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
3 December 2020 Billy Connolly I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
3 December 2020 Ursula K. Le Guin As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.
3 December 2020 S. E. Hinton I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
3 December 2020 Rita Dove Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.
3 December 2020 Shirley Hazzard Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.
3 December 2020 Ursula K. Le Guin I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
3 December 2020 Jessica Hagedorn My identity is linked to my grandmother, who’s pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that’s how I identify.
3 December 2020 Chris Van Allsburg The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It’s also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.
