#magi

I should imagine that in my time I have eaten enough horses to provide a royal escort. ↗

— Auberon Waugh

#imagination

What are you giving him?" Nicola Vileroy tilted her head... " Something to mesmerize and delight him. Something absolutely ethereal that would capture his imagination and not let go. " "Ooh, Nintendo, how lovely! ↗

— Daniel Nayeri

#nintendo #imagination

Without the dreamers who write science fiction and other imaginary material we'd still be sitting in caves ... if we weren't already extinct. ↗

— William C. Samples

#science-fiction #technology #writers #imagination

I have zero respect for knowledge, that’s what computers are for. Imagination is the kicker because imagination can extrapolate, create and solve, Knowledge is just facts and shit. Mostly irrelevant.” Kego O'Grady in The Navigator By Steve Merrick ↗

— Steve Merrick

#sci-fi #science-fiction #steve-merrick #stevesevilempire #the-navigator

The worst Persian voluptuary could never have imagined my most ordinary day. ↗

— Lew Welch

#imagination

Imagination is the first stage of escapism. ↗

— Sheila N. Eskew

#imagination

A poem needs imaginative rhythms as well as imaginative transformation of content. ↗

— Helen Vendler

#imagination

I imagined the sound of whips on black backs and the roar of the overseer over the cry of mothers being separated from their babies. I pulled on all the strength I had not to shot out every valuable leaded pane of glass in that stinking house. ↗

— Linda Leigh Hargrove

#fiction #imagination

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#imagination

I didn’t hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that females possessed the only organ in the human body with no function than to feel pleasure. (If such an organ were unique to the male body, can you imagine how much we would hear about it—and what it would be used to justify?) ↗

— Gloria Steinem

#body-acceptance #body-appreciation #clitoris #female #male