T Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with T. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“The imagination can be dangerous. It can change the world. And that is why we write.”
“The imagination can be happy in places where the whole man is not.”
Source: Ringside Seats
“The imagination can become our own free and wild territory. When all else fails, it can offer a refuge.”
Source: Inventology: How We Dream Up Things That Change the World
“The imagination conjures gifts; what the ungrateful, unsentimental part of the mind has to do is to unwrap them, find fault with them, see them for what they are and then alter them.”
“The imagination demands that life be told slant because of its need of distance.”
Source: Creatures of the Earth: New and Selected Stories
“The imagination disposes of everything. It creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are the whole of the world.”
“The imagination doesn't crop annually like a reliable fruit tree. The writer has to gather whatever's there: sometimes too much, sometimes too little, sometimes nothing at all. And in the years of glut there is always a slatted wooden tray in some cool, dark attic, which the writer nervously visits from time to time; and yes, oh dear, while he's been hard at work downstairs, up in the attic there are puckering skins, warning spots, a sudden brown collapse and the sprouting of snowflakes. What can he do about it?”
“The imagination enlarges little objects so as to fill our souls with a fantastic estimate; and, with rash insolence, it belittles the great to its own measure, as when talking of God.”
Source: Pensées
“The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.”
Source: Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person
“The imagination gland doesn't die. It just becomes reliant on manufactured spirit.”
Source: The Spirit of Imagination
“The imagination has resources and intimations we don't even know about.”
“The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.”
“The imagination is a dimension of nonlocal information”
“The imagination is a dream factory of which realities are a by-product.”
“The imagination is a healthy thing, and a great many scientific discoveries could not have been made without it, but it need to be harnessed to some serious object if it is to come to anything.”
“The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.”
“The imagination is a palette of bright colors. You can use it to touch up memories — or you can use it to paint dreams.”
“The imagination is a place all by itself. A separate country. Now, you've heard of the French nation, the British nation. Well, this is the Imagi-nation. It's a wonderful place.”
“The imagination is a pretty precious source of protection.”
Source: I Was Interrupted: Nicholas Ray on Making Movies
“The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.”
“The imagination is a spiritual apparatus. Unable to invent the world, it does the next best thing, and that is to assemble it piecemeal, ugly and strange, bright and clear, and dumbly discovered.”
“The imagination is a wild and dangerous forest that is impossible to know the full might of.”
Source: The Spirit of Imagination
“The imagination is a wonderful thing; it allows for all manner of undiscoverable sins.”
Source: Sweet Love
“The imagination is always more horrible than the truth.”
Source: The Mausoleum of Lovers: Journals 1976-1991
“The imagination is always the best torturer.”
Source: The Power of One
“The imagination is an organ of understanding. And the imagination needs all the faculties at hand, all the sensibility, all the conscious and unconscious intelligence it can galvanize to fulfill its luminous mission.”
“The imagination is both interpretative and creative in nature.”
Source: The Law of Success
“The imagination is closer to the actor than real life-more agreeable, more comfortable.”
Source: Stella Adler on Ibsen, Strindberg, and Chekhov
“The imagination is far better at inventing tortures than life because the imagination is a demon within us and it knows where to strike, where it hurts. It knows the vulnerable spot, and life does not, our friends and lovers do not, because seldom do they have the imagination equal to the task.”
“The imagination is fertile. From seeds of the imagination, much is made manifest.”
“The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.”
“The imagination is like a muscle: it strengthens through use.”
“The imagination is literally the workshop wherein are fashioned all plans created by man.”
Source: Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition
“The imagination is man's power over nature.”
Source: Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose
“The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.”
Source: The Stones of Venice -: The Fall
“The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.”
Source: The Complete Poetry and Prose of William Blake
“The imagination is not an escape, but a return to the richness of our true selves; a return to reality.”
“The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.”
Source: A Boy's Own Story: Picador Classic
“The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.”
Source: The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt
“The imagination is one of the forces of nature.”
Source: Collected Poetry and Prose
“The Imagination is one of the important stuff to be creative from there to be a creator!”
“The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.”
“The imagination is precious. Don't lose it. Don't lose the child in you.”
“The imagination is the goal of history. I see culture as an effort to literally realize our collective dreams.”
Source: Chaos, Creativity, and Cosmic Consciousness
“The Imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.”
“The imagination is the liberty of the mind It is intrpeid and eager and the extreme of its achievement lies in abstraction.”
“The Imagination is the Manifestation of the Visible from the Invisible. It is the Engine of the Unconscious, and it is there that all desires, all dreams, all plans, and all achievements are born.”
Source: Adventure Time: The Enchiridion Marcy's Super Secret Scrapbook!!!
“The imagination is the medium of appreciation in every field. The engagement of the imagination is the only thing that makes any activity more than mechanical. Unfortunately, it is too customary to identify the imaginative with the imaginary, rather than with a warm and intimate taking in of the full scope of a situation.”
Source: Democracy And Education
“The imagination is the most real world that we know
because we each know it first hand.”
“The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.”
Source: The Necessary Angel: Essays on Reality and the Imagination