3 December 2020 Sylvia Plath And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
3 December 2020 Michael Apted It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.
3 December 2020 Theodore Gericault With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.
3 December 2020 Steve Kanaly As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may not have as much imagination as you would expect.
3 December 2020 Nadine Gordimer Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
3 December 2020 Juliette Gordon Low To put yourself in another’s place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.
3 December 2020 Wallace Stevens We say God and the imagination are one… How high that highest candle lights the dark.
3 December 2020 Dr. Seuss I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living, it’s a way of looking at life through the wrong end of a telescope. Which is what I do, and that enables you to laugh at life’s realities.
3 December 2020 Blaise Pascal Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.
3 December 2020 John C. Hawkes I’m only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.
3 December 2020 Amy Tan I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.
3 December 2020 Quintilian To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.
3 December 2020 Vladimir Nabokov A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
3 December 2020 Lawrence Durrell For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential – the imagination.
3 December 2020 Calvin Trillin I never did very well in math – I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn’t meant my answers literally.
3 December 2020 Francis Bacon They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
3 December 2020 Meryl Streep I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
3 December 2020 Jerzy Kosinski I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.
3 December 2020 John Adams My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
3 December 2020 Eddie Rickenbacker The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
3 December 2020 Donald Trump A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.
3 December 2020 Gloria Steinem Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
3 December 2020 Diana Krall But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.
