#imagination

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

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

— Bela Lugosi

#also #betrayed #birth #enemy #foreign

I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me. ↗

— Meryl Streep

#before #believe #children #did #had

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether. ↗

— Luis Bunuel

#between #chance #despite #fact #fortunately

Some people have active imaginations, but they don't know me and they're wrong if they think they do. ↗

— Yamila Diaz

#imaginations #know #me #people #some

The power of imagination makes us infinite. ↗

— John Muir

#imagination #infinite #makes #power #us

Who but the artist has the power to open man up, to set free the imagination? The others - priest, teacher, saint, statesman, warrior - hold us to the path of history. They keep us chained to the rock, that the vultures may eat out our hearts. It is the artist who has the courage to go against the crowd; he is the unrecognized "hero of our time" - and of all time. ↗

— Henry Miller

#artists #freedom #imagination #art

In order to survive, a plurality of true communities would require not egalitarianism and tolerance but knowledge, an understanding of the necessity of local differences, and respect. Respect, I think, always implies imagination - the ability to see one another, across our inevitable differences, as living souls. (pg. 181, Sex, Economy, Freedom, and Community) ↗

— Wendell Berry

#imagination #knowledge #respect #art

The first ingredient to being wrong is to claim that you are right. Geniuses have a knack for raising new questions. Hence by the public they are either admired for their creativity or, even more commonly so, detested for disturbing the daily peace of mind. ↗

— Criss Jami

#challenge #challenger #changes #controversy #creativity

Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence Day and save us from traveling the river changed; save us from hitchhiking the long road home. Imagine an escape. Imagine that your own shadow on the wall is a perfect door. Imagine a song stronger than penicillin. Imagine a spring with water that mends broken bones. Imagine a drum which wraps itself around your heart. Imagine a story that puts wood in the fireplace. ↗

— Sherman Alexie

#change