“I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.”
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“Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.”
“I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.”
“I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.”
“There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.”
“There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.”
“A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur that the computer mouse is a hotrod that the box is a cave that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.”
“Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.”
“Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind's eye. That's an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition.”
“I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.”
“Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.”
“I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.”
“On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.”
“How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.”
“I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.”
“Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.”
“I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.”
“There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.”
“We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.”
“You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.”
“I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.”
“I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically, so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously.”
“My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.”
“I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.”