Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount.
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.
I have a very vivid imagination.
All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.
Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.
We are fascinated with our own history, and we are fascinated with the Romans because they were millennia ago, and yet they still capture our imagination because they were actually so similar to us. They were very civilized. They had a very similar political system.
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.
My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!
Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.
You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.
From the boys' point of view, scouting puts them into fraternity-gangs, which is their natural organisation, whether for games, mischief, or loafing; it gives them a smart dress and equipments; it appeals to their imagination and romance; and it engages them in an active, open-air life.
The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey will continue to take Europe as a model; it will continue to pursue its search for democracy.
I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.
Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.
The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.
I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.
Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.
Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.
I just have a relationship with my imagination. It's like my friend, almost.
We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read.
I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.
A novel is a relationship, you know? When you read a book, the writer has done half the work, and you're doing half the work. You're providing the imagination; the words are turning into pictures in your mind. There's an active relationship that's going on.
My life has been a gift up to this point, and I've been blessed beyond my wildest imagination. And wherever this ride takes me is where I'm going.
I don't know if it's a failure of imagination on my part, but I'm not going to be writing about Paris in the 1800s. I feel like it would come off as just ludicrously uninformed, even if I did a lot of research.
