“The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.”
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“It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.”
“Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.”
“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.”
“One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.”
“In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.”
“Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing.”
“I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.”
“I do a lot of curiosity buying I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention.”
“I do a lot of curiosity buying I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.”
“I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.”
“Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.”
“The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.”
“I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.”
“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.”
“You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.”
“Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.”
“It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women.”
“My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.”
“I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.”
“Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind.”
“My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.”
“Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.”
“The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.”