To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.
Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.
I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.
America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily mix together, producing a new, American identity. And while critics may argue that the melting pot is a nation...
Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.
Most cocktails containing liquor are made today with gin and ingenuity. In brief, take an ample supply of the former and use your imagination. For the benefit of a minority, it is courteous to serve chilled fruit juice in addition to cocktails made w...
Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.
Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about...
I've never really had a problem with the imagination level of an audience. They're always smarter and savvier than any studio exec will give them credit for.
Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.
I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.
I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing t...
