#nat

I speak to maps. And sometimes they something back to me. This is not as strange as it sounds, nor is it an unheard of thing. Before maps, the world was limitless. It was maps that gave it shape and made it seem like territory, like something that could be possessed, not just laid waste and plundered. Maps made places on the edges of the imagination seem graspable and placable. ↗

— Abdulrazak Gurnah

#travel #world #imagination

Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid: humans are incredibly slow, inaccurate and brilliant; together they are powerful beyond imagination. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#imagination

Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination. ↗

— Nick Hornby

#lovers #imagination

It's an unfortunate situation. After such a great play I felt like I got hit late, no flag, broke my hand. That's it. That's pretty much been the story for the past three weeks, and obviously at some point something catastrophic was going to happen, and I broke my hand. ↗

— Michael Vick

#been #broke #catastrophic #felt #flag

Imagine the clouds dripping Dig a hole in your garden to put them in ↗

— Yoko Ono

#imagination #imagination

There must be something in books, things we can't imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house, there must be something there. You don't stay for nothing. I don't know what it is. I'm so damned unhappy, I'm so mad, and I don't know why I feel like I'm putting on weight, I feel fat. I feel like I've been saving up a lot of things, and don't konw what. I might even start reading books. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#imagination

My reputation is largely the creature of the kindly imaginings of my flock, whom I chose not to disillusion, in part because the truth had the kind of pathos in it that would bring on sympathy in its least bearable forms. ↗

— Marilynne Robinson

#sympathy #imagination

I think back to the last thing Dave said to me and try to imagine what escaping oxygen would look like. It looks a lot like drowning. ↗

— A.S. King

#imagination

Anything can be a weapon in imaginative hands. ↗

— Jane Prowse

#weapon #imagination

She had always called me ‘you.’ ‘Is that you?’ on the telephone, ‘Can you? Will you? Do you?’ so that I imagined, like a fool, for a few minutes at a time, there was only one ‘you’ in the world and that was me. ↗

— Graham Greene

#imagination