Educated Imagination Quotes

#1. My subject is the educated imagination, and education is something that affects the whole person, not bits and pieces of him .

Northrop Frye

#2. Nothing is more abhorrent to me than sugary-sweet photography full of pretense, poses, and gimmickry. For this reason, I have allowed myself to tell the truth about our times and people in a sincere manner.

August Sander

#3. Believe me, I've taken a lot of heat for my mustache.

Kevin Connolly

#4. The two things he most valued, which is to say liberty and equality, were not natural allies.

Christopher Hitchens

#5. As followers of Jesus, we must look beyond people, things, and circumstances to meet our needs. All of these are unstable and inadequate, and if we depend on them, we will fail.

Kenneth D. Boa

#6. All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.

Tommy Lee Jones

#7. The cayote is a living, breathing allegory of Want. He is always hungry. He is always poor, out of luck and friendless. The meanest creatures despise him, and even the fleas would desert him for a velocipede.

Mark Twain

#8. Barack Obama seems intent on enrolling more people on food stamps. Mitt Romney's focus is going to be on generating more jobs that will make food-stamps unnecessary for them.

Mike Huckabee

#9. I was a stupid, self-assuming girl. Sitting at that table? Smug in my confidence of my ownership?

Alessandra Torre

#10. I thought I knew everything about love and relationships in my 20s, the ignorance of youth is bliss. As you get older, you start to realise that you don't really know anything and life is a great traveling journey. Life is unexpected ... you just never know whats going to happen.

Reese Witherspoon

#11. His eyes have the wrong effect on me. They grind me to a powder and his smile is the breath that sends me in all directions.

Sarah Noffke

#12. There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

Lionel Trilling

#13. When adversity overtakes you, it pays to be thankful it was not worse instead of worrying over your misfortune.

Napoleon Hill

#14. Clever is when one is crafty enough to mistake your imagination for intelligence. Smart is when one assumes they are too educated to notice the difference.

Kerry E. Wagner

#15. If you bring something up, it's imperative to explain your thought.

Keith Grafman

#16. That was the thing about courage, she was discovering. It opened so much more of the world to her than she'd expected. A

Suzanne Enoch

#17. I have no small talk and Peel has no manners.

Duke Of Wellington

#18. I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.

Yehuda Amichai

#19. Until almost the 20th century, Central Park was home to a shepherd and a flock of 200 sheep.

Bill Bryson