#magi

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#being #billiards #golf #good #imagine

And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five. ↗

— James Merrill

#astonishing #become #external #five #his

The imaginative leap for me of writing for women is no more difficult than the one of writing for men. I've always wanted to have women well represented in the work that I've done because I've always been around them and around the way they look at the world. ↗

— Anthony Minghella

#around #because #been #difficult #done

We especially need imagination in science. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

#imagination #need #science

It's actually a smarter crime because imagine if you rob a bank, or you're dealing drugs. If you get caught you're going to spend a lot of time in custody. But with hacking, it's much easier to commit the crime and the risk of punishment is slim to none. ↗

— Kevin Mitnick

#bank #because #caught #commit #crime

When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied. ↗

— Rhona Mitra

#hotel #hotel room #i #imagination #keep

I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character. ↗

— Shigeru Miyamoto

#carve #character #essence #i #i think

There are so many unpleasant things in the world already that there is no use in imagining any more. ↗

— Lucy Maud Montgomery

#any #imagining #many #more #pleasant things

I am a fan of magic and fantasy, particularly when it's grounded in reality. ↗

— Erin Morgenstern

#fan #fantasy #grounded #i #i am

I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also. ↗

— Steven Patrick Morrissey

#certain #dignity #go #i #i think