#magi

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination. ↗

— Bill Moyers

#failure #imagination #moral #self-defense #war

The skills that we have are the actual magic skills - not the performing skills. We have to separate those. But the actual skills that make the tricks work, we don't get to use again. ↗

— Penn Jillette

#again #get #magic #make #performing

I'm not qualified for anything else, so I would imagine I'd either be doing something larcenous or I would have already been caught. ↗

— Don Johnson

#anything #been #caught #doing #either

The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#aim #alarmed #endless #endless series #hence

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#imagination #intelligence #love is #over #triumph

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see. ↗

— Duane Michals

#believe #cannot #i #i believe #i believe in

We've come a long way in our thinking, but also in our moral decay. I can't imagine Dr. King watching the 'Real Housewives' or 'Jersey Shore.' ↗

— Samuel L. Jackson

#come #decay #dr #housewives #i

You know, people think you have to be dumb to skip rope for 45 minutes. No, you have to be able to imagine something else. While you're skipping rope, you have to be able to see something else. ↗

— John Irving

#dumb #else #imagine #know #minutes

I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography. ↗

— John Irving

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No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old. ↗

— Peter Jackson

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