Imagination Quotes - Page 38

Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees. Ron Perlman

Exercise, Settle, About

When I was a teenager, reading for me was as normal, as unremarkable as eating or breathing. Reading gave flight to my imagination and strengthened my understanding of the world, the society I lived in, and myself. More importantly, reading was fun, a way to live more than one life as I immersed myself in each good book I read. Malorie Blackman

Book, Flight, Importantly

There's this long history of colonialism and the colonial gaze when applied to matters related to China. So a lot of conceptions about China in literary representations in the West are things you can't even fight against because they've been there so long that they've become part of the Western imagination of China. Ken Liu

Against, Been, Applied

Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper! George William Curtis

How, How Much, Cheaper

I may have been sexy, but I was covered up total. There was something left to the imagination. Suzi Quatro

May, Been, Total

If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers. Bela Lugosi

Me, Birth, Betrayed

In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination. James Buchan

Play, New, Rising

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination. Lawrence Durrell

Destiny, Defeated, Through

One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches. Andre Leon Talley

Humble, London, Onion

It was just very interesting to me that certain types of women inspire people's imagination, and all of them were very difficult women. Elizabeth Wurtzel

Interesting, Very, Types

My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me. Elizabeth Wurtzel

Love, Surprise, Over

Films are dreams. Many, many critics say to me that my films are not good because they are too unbelievable, but this is my style. I tell stories like they are dreams. This is my imagination. For me, it would be impossible to do a film that is so precise, that resembles real life. Dario Argento

Impossible, Tell, Resembles

I have a vivid, apocalyptic imagination. Sally Mann

I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination. Rob Walton

Important, Mean, Most

Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. Cyril Connolly

Artist, Meet, Myth

I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world, when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared, and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best. Henning Mankell

My Life, Idol, Instrument

If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all. Geoffrey S. Fletcher

Modern, Swallowed, Saves

I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination. Steve Lacy

Possibilities, Been

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings. Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Mind, Desire, Given

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. Carly Rae Jepsen

Making, Like, Very

You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you. Peter Mullan

Go, Instinct, Where

The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination. James A. Michener

Like, Limited, Unlimited

My imagination was a great place to escape from all the anxiety and disapproval of my life... I had to live in my head... art was a way of making myself feel better. Philip Schultz

Art, My Life, Making

I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me. Robertson Davies

I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need. Olivia De Havilland

Fantasy, Means, Films

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally. Calvin Trillin

Could, Meant, Very

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