“I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.” IfsThinkingChildrenLittlesCountryRunningBlackImaginationDark Author:Malcolm McDowell
“If there is one thing I long for above all else, it's that the years to come may see Christianity in this country able again to capture the imagination of our culture.” IfsYearsMayLongArtCountryAbleCultureImaginationChristianityOne ThingCapture Author:Rowan Williams
“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.” WellsCountryNationsImaginationWonderfulHeardBritishWonderful Places Author:George Seaton
“Men may be very learned, and yet very miserable; it is easy to be a deep geometrician, or a sublime astronomer, but very difficult to be a good man. I esteem, therefore, the traveller who instructs the heart, but despise him who only indulges the imagination. A man who leaves home to mend himself and others, is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is only a vagabond.” MenHeartMayCountryHomeEasyDifficultImaginationBlindCuriosityPhilosopherEsteemMiserableImpulseGood ManDespiseSublimeIndulgeTravellerAstronomersVagabonds Book:The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 2: Enquiry into the present state of polite learning; The citizen of the world Source: The works of Oliver Goldsmith. 2: Enquiry into the present state of polite learning; The citizen of the world
“Some princes are born in palaces. Some are born in mangers. But a few are born in the imagination, out of scraps of history and hope... Barack Hussein Obama did not win because of the color of his skin. Nor did he win in spite of it. He won because at a very dangerous moment in the life of a still young country, more people than have ever spoken before came together to try to save it. And that was a victory all its own.” PeopleTryingStillsCountryMomentsTogetherYoungWinningBornImaginationDangerousColorVictorySkinsBarackSpiteHusseinPalacesScrap Author:Nancy Gibbs
“When you begin to read a poem you are entering a foreign country whose laws and language and life are a kind of translation of your own; but to accept it because its stews taste exactly like your old mother's hash, or to reject it because the owl-headed goddess of wisdom in its temple is fatter than the Statue of Liberty, is an equal mark of that want of imagination, that inaccessibility to experience, of which each of us who dies a natural death will die.” WantKindCountryLawMotherDiesLanguageImaginationNaturalLibertyAcceptingLike YouTasteEqualMarkTemplesRejectsGoddessEnteringStatuesTranslationsOwlForeign CountriesStewStatue Of LibertyNatural DeathHash Author:Randall Jarrell
“I have always accepted and respected all other schools of architecture, from the chill and elemental structures of Mies van der Rohe to the imagination and delirium of Gaudi. I must design what pleases me in a way that is naturally linked to my roots and the country of my origin.” WayCountrySchoolImaginationDesignPleaseRootsStructureArchitectureAcceptedLinkedChillVansElementalsDeliriumPlease MeGaudiMies Van Der Rohe Author:Oscar Niemeyer