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I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement. ”
Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live. ”
Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science. ”
A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination. ”
Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses. ”
Yes, sir, I was in the processing room watching them actually process the film. ”
A man watches his pear tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process, and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at length falls into his lap. ”
China was the first time I truly felt like an outsider. I fell in love with the process of trying to become intimate with the culture. ”
A script is not a piece of literature it's a process. ”
I think the success of democracy is not really police security; it's the presence of a broad middle class. The stronger the middle class of a people is, the less you have to worry about one group coming in and exploiting the democratic process for its own ends. ”