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Imagination grows by exercise and contrary to common belief is more powerful in the mature than in the young.

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W. Somerset Maugham
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Category: Imagination

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. You know you're getting old when all the names in your black book have M. D. after them.
  • 2. Let age not envy draw wrinkles on thy cheeks.
  • 3. Old age is the most unexpected of all things that happen to a man.

2 Amazing

  • 1. It's amazing how quickly people on the internet can pick something up but it's also amazing how quickly they can drop it.
  • 2. Well it was the beginning of my film career. It was amazing to me that I got nominated for an Academy Award.
  • 3. I still think that movies are amazing I respect actors and directors.

3 Anger

  • 1. Fairest and dearest your wrath and anger are more heavy than I can bear but learn that I cannot tell what you wish me to say without sinning against my honour too grievously.
  • 2. When angry count to four when very angry swear.
  • 3. When anger rushes unrestrained to action like a hot steed it stumbles on its way. The man of thought strikes deepest and strikes safely.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. It was very hard for all of us. It's still very hard. The anniversary of his death just passed and every single one of his friends still after all these years… it's unbelievable.
  • 2. Strike an average between what a woman thinks of her husband a month before she marries him and what she thinks of him a year afterward and you will have the truth about him.
  • 3. I didn't make my first solo record until 1981 so I don't have any 60's or 70's recordings but I am working on a large boxed set called DUST to be released next year the 20th anniversary of my first solo record.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture arouses sentiments in man. The architect's task therefore is to make those sentiments more precise.
  • 2. The Egyptian contribution to architecture was more concerned with remembering the dead than the living.
  • 3. In architecture the idea degenerated. Design allows a more direct and pleasurable route.
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