#magi

I imagine there are things I wouldn't do, but I haven't been offered those recently either. ↗

— M. Emmet Walsh

#either #haven #i #imagine #offered

Genius is another word for magic, and the whole point of magic is that it is inexplicable. ↗

— Margot Fonteyn

#genius #inexplicable #magic #point #whole

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

#come #conceive #human #human imagination #human society

Once a popular Alaska governor with a modest record of accomplishment, Palin could conceivably revive her reputation in this era of short memories. But it's hard to imagine her name atop the GOP ballot in 2016, when a cast of heavyweights who sat out 2012 will be vying for the nomination. ↗

— Ron Fournier

#alaska #ballot #cast #conceivably #could

As I write at the end, if we step back and face the enormity of the torrent, then we have taken the first step to imagining what we might want to do about it. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#back #end #enormity #face #first

A child's kiss is magic. Why else would they be so stingy with them? ↗

— Harvey Fierstein

#else #kiss #magic #stingy #them

The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable. ↗

— Luis Figo

#imagine #mistake #perfection #possible #unthinkable

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does. ↗

— John Kenneth Galbraith

#agreeable #allow #beach #does #eliminating

Romantic lovers require from each other at least the facade of reason: We desire to be what romantic love makes us appear in the other's eyes. We want to imagine we are deserving of the love we inspire. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#deserving #desire #each #eyes #facade

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#also #beauty #element #half #imagination