“If one hour's work is enough to govern France, four minutes is all that is needed for Italy. There is no nation more easily frightened; even its poetic imagination predisposes it to fear, and they look upon power as on an image that fills them with terror.” IfsLooksEnoughNationsHoursImaginationFourMinutesNeededTerrorFranceLook UpPoeticFrightenedOne Hour Author:Madame de Stael
“The desert came into view ... sand and palm trees, a way of life that revolved around human beings without possessions or skills, who had to rely on their imaginations to contrive a way of making their hearts beat faster or even to keep them at a normal pace; to search unaided for a hidden gleam of light, and to live with two seasons a year instead of four.” WayYearsHumansHeartTwoLightImaginationHuman BeingsViewsFourTreeSkillsNormalSurvivalBeatsSeasonsPossessionDesertFasterRelySandPacePalmsGleamHeart BeatPalm Trees Book:Women of Sand and Myrrh Source: Women of Sand and Myrrh
“Im the youngest of four, but my closest sibling is 10 years older. I had a lot of imagination. I was running around playing little games by myself. But I never thought I was going to be an actor.” YearsLittlesRunningActorsGamesImaginationFourClosestSibling Author:Daniel Breaker
“Franny Armstrong is a mother of three and a grandmother of four. Her husband supports her imagination and has the patience of a saint. She's been writing since she was a child, creating plays to act out in front of the neighborhood children.” WritingChildrenPlayMotherThreeImaginationSupportFourFrontsHusbandCreatingSaintGrandmotherNeighborhoodArmstrong Author:Franny Armstrong
“My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.” MightMotherStarsImaginationFourWeekTasteDinnerResilienceCooksVegetablesFrozenOnionsGarlicSpam Author:Andre Dubus
“The way history is currently taught in schools, jumping from Hitler to the Henrys, is like a nightmare vision of Star Wars, where you have episode four before you have episode one. The sense of going on a journey, of chronology and continuity, is incredibly important to the imagination.” WayImportantWarSchoolStarsImaginationVisionFourJourneyTaughtNightmareEpisodesJumpingContinuityChronology Author:Simon Schama
“For me the idea was always throw myself into different situations and push your imagination as far as you can to get to where you want to get to. I think a lot of bands make the same record over and over again because they're married to the same three or four people. At some point they've done all they can do with their own imaginations.” PeopleThinkingWantIdeasDifferentDoneThreeCan DoImaginationSituationRecordsFourBandMarried Author:Mark Oliver Everett