My Imagination Quotes - Page 15

• Women alone stir my imagination.

  Virginia Woolf

  Imagination

  Virginia Woolf (2014). “Three Guineas (Annotated)”, p.66, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Why, why, when one writes, does a sort of shackle bind one's imagination? I become conscious of a deadening mediocrity, perhaps a form of mental cowardice, and I long to break free, to let my imagination take wings. It doesn't - yet.

  Winifred Holtby

  Writing, Wings, Long

  Winifred Holtby, Alice Holtby (1941). “Letters to a friend”

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• These visions which I saw were not in sleep nor in dreams, nor in my imagination nor by bodily eyes or outward ears nor in a hidden place; but in watching, aware with the pure eyes of the mind and inner ear of the heart.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Dream, Heart, Sleep

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• I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.

  Dawn French

  Writing, Past, Imagination

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• Growing up, I didn't have television. My dad would make up stories and tell me stories, so my imagination ran wild. When I did see films, which was very few and far between, that was such an interesting medium that was so new to me. It wasn't something that was just part of my life, so it was really appealing and so different that I enjoyed that.

  Shiloh Fernandez

  Growing Up, Dad, Imagination

  "Shiloh Fernandez Exclusive Interview RED RIDING HOOD". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. March 10, 2011.

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• I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.

  Ranbir Kapoor

  Imagination, Want, Height

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• I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.

  Akshay Kumar

  Imagination, Cooking, Sticks

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• I tell my students one of the most important things they need to know is when they are at their best, creatively. They need to ask themselves, What does the ideal room look like? Is there music? Is there silence? Is there chaos outside or is there serenity outside? What do I need in order to release my imagination?

  Toni Morrison

  Order, Imagination, Silence

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• My childhood was pretty ordinary, except from a very early age, I wanted to be scared. I just did. I was scared afterwards. I wanted a light on, because I was afraid that there was something in the closet. My imagination was very active, even at a young age.

  Stephen King

  Light, Imagination, Childhood

  "Stephen King On Growing Up, Believing In God And Getting Scared". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. October 31, 2014.

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• We lived on isolated farms and ranches, far from anybody, and when I was young I knew very few other kids, so I lived to a great extent in my imagination.

  Jack Williamson

  Kids, Imagination, Young

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• This extraordinary group has absolutely captivated my imagination, knocked my socks off - what more can I say?

  Michael Tilson Thomas

  Imagination, Groups, Sock

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• I think anything that opens my mind and triggers my imagination I'm reading. I like to read science fiction and imagine the character. Anything that keeps my imagination flowing.

  Nicolas Cage

  Reading, Character, Thinking

  "Nicolas Cage GHOST RIDER SPIRIT OF VENGEANCE On-Set Interview". Interview with Steve "Frosty" Weintraub, collider.com. January 5, 2012.

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• I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.

  Franz Grillparzer

  Writing, Imagination, Tragedy

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• I certainly incorporate facts into my fiction. I take the basic facts from the life of my subject and I pick and choose what to use to construct a really interesting novel. I don't let facts get in the way of my imagination and my exploration of the subject's emotions and relationships.

  Melanie Benjamin

  Imagination, Interesting, Fiction

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• As a hobbyist, there's something about miniature anything that captures my imagination.

  Ed Helms

  Imagination, Capture, Miniatures

  "Q&A: Ed Helms on Nerdom and How He Almost Destroyed His Hands for Mumford & Sons". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. September 6, 2013.

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• Our bread need not ever be sour or hard to digest. What Nature is to the mind she is also to the body. As she feeds my imagination, she will feed my body; for what she says she means, and is ready to do. She is not simply beautiful to the poet's eye. Not only the rainbow and sunset are beautiful, but to be fed and clothed, sheltered and warmed aright, are equally beautiful and inspiring. There is not necessarily any gross and ugly fact which may not be eradicated from the life of man.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Nature, Mean

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Familiar Letters (Annotated Edition)”, p.132, Jazzybee Verlag

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• The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but is an instinct. It appeared more beautiful to live low and farehard in many respects; and though I never did so, I went far enough to please my imagination.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Beautiful, Animal, Imagination

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “Citizen Thoreau: Walden, Civil Disobedience, Life Without Principle, Slavery in Massachusetts, A Plea for Captain John Brown”, p.131, Graphic Arts Books

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• An island always pleases my imagination, even the smallest, as a small continent and integral portion of the globe. I have a fancyfor building my hut on one. Even a bare, grassy isle, which I can see entirely over at a glance, has some undefined and mysterious charm for me.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Islands, Imagination, Mysterious

  Henry David Thoreau (2014). “The Illustrated "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers"”, p.243, Princeton University Press

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• An everlasting tranquility is, in my imagination, the highest possible felicity, because I know of no felicity on earth higher than that which a peaceful mind and contented heart afford.

  Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann

  Heart, Imagination, Heaven

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• I was never a big reader as a kid. My imagination wasn't captured by books very often. It was captured more often by boys and partying and riding horses.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Horse, Party, Book

  Source: therumpus.net

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• For the first time I understood the dogma of eternal pain... For the first time my imagination grasped the height and depth of the Christian horror. Then I said: "It is a lie, and I hate your religion. If it is true, I hate your God." From that day I have had no fear, no doubt. For me, on that day, the flames of hell were quenched. From that day I have passionately hated every orthodox creed. That Sermon did some good.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Christian, Religious, Pain

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• Using my imagination and creativity is exciting to me.

  Jan de Bont

  Creativity, Imagination, Exciting

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• I remember when I was a kid, when I just used to love listening to something again and again and over and over. You know, everybody else got sick of it, but I loved that discovery of music and what it did to my world, to my imagination. And so I started really considering, "Yeah, I've got to do more," for kids, particularly.

  Cat Stevens

  Kids, Discovery, Sick

  Source: www.spin.com

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• The greatest experience I've ever had in a movie theater was watching "Star Wars." It shaped how I look at the world. My imagination was so small before I went in that theater and there was an explosion in my head. I just couldn't figure out how someone came up with it.

  Will Smith

  Stars, War, Imagination

  "Will Smith Returns as Agent J in ‘MIB3’". Interview with Angela Dawson, frontrowfeatures.com. May 14, 2012.

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• When I was little, I knew that I was not adopted, but I actually imagined and hoped that I was, and that my real parents were going to come get me. I was just too different from the rest of the family, so I lived in books and in my imagination.

  Gloria Steinem

  Real, Book, Imagination

  Interview with Maria Shriver, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2011.

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