#magi

I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#always #because #calculated #carefully #controlled

I write because I can't imagine not writing. ↗

— Richard Price

#i #i write #imagine #write #writing

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? ↗

— J. B. Priestley

#bed #different #enchantment #event #fall

Fiction has consisted either of placing imaginary characters in a true story, which is the Iliad, or of presenting the story of an individual as having a general historical value, which is the Odyssey. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#consisted #either #fiction #general #having

After the magical act accomplished by Joyce with Ulysses, perhaps we are getting away from it. ↗

— Raymond Queneau

#act #after #away #getting #joyce

Let us assume that the ideal were reached; let us imagine a state of international life in which the danger of war no longer exists. Then no one would dare to demand a penny for obviously completely superfluous armaments. ↗

— Ludwig Quidde

#assume #completely #danger #dare #demand

I don't know any comedian who tailors his act to his audience. Maybe people say they do, but I can't even imagine them. ↗

— Colin Quinn

#any #audience #comedian #even #his

Winning 'The Apprentice' changed my life in ways I could never have imagined. It has been an amazing experience working for Donald Trump and I am very grateful for the whole opportunity. ↗

— Bill Rancic

#amazing #amazing experience #apprentice #been #changed

There is no magic person out there, no perfect human being out there waiting for you. ↗

— Helen Reddy

#human #human being #magic #out #perfect

The lover is a monotheist who knows that other people worship different gods but cannot himself imagine that there could be other gods. ↗

— Theodor Reik

#could #different #gods #himself #imagine