#imagination

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination. ↗

— Percy Bysshe Shelley

#great #imagination #instrument #moral

Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin. ↗

— William Robertson Smith

#bloody #effort #even #every #forms

Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage. ↗

— Timothy Spall

#cage #imagination #put

I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention. ↗

— Bruce Springsteen

#album cover #anything #around #attention #band

Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning. ↗

— Gloria Steinem

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I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have. ↗

— Michel Gondry

#dictates #how #i #i see #i think

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination. ↗

— Alan Rickman

#imagination #longs #sense

Although I do not have a family, I have eyes, ears and imagination, and know, as most people know, that the importance of one's children is paramount. ↗

— Lara St. John

#children #ears #eyes #family #i

Busted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination. ↗

— Charlie Simpson

#band #busted #i #ideal #imagination

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only. ↗

— Agnes Smedley

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