I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.
Justice is to be found only in imagination.
There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.
One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.
I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and then you'd use your imagination.
We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.
I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.
Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my s...
When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.
Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
Ray Bradbury is one who is contributing to the understanding of the imagination and the curiosity of the human race.
I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.
It's what all actors try to do, really, to just preserve the child inside them because their imagination is quite available. I think partly it's because they're still making sense of the world. They haven't boxed everything up so neatly as most adult...
I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it's usually from a realistic place, to a place in the imagination.
I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?
