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The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.

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Georg C. Lichtenberg
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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. Better pass boldly into that other world in the full glory of some passion than fade and wither dismally with age.
  • 2. True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.
  • 3. I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

2 Amazing

  • 1. Money is such an amazing teacher: What you choose to do with your money shows whether you are truly powerful or powerless.
  • 2. Sometimes I think my husband is so amazing that I don't know why he's with me. I don't know whether I'm good enough. But if I make him happy then I'm everything I want to be.
  • 3. You know Johnny Depp has always been a massive inspiration for me and he's somebody who has produced an incredible amount of work and every single piece that he does is amazing.

3 Anger

  • 1. The bare recollection of anger kindles anger.
  • 2. My humour has always come from anger but I have to make sure I don't just get angry and jump on a soapbox.
  • 3. In times of great stress or adversity it's always best to keep busy to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope.
  • 2. Next month I will celebrate my 30th anniversary of marriage with my beautiful bride Vicki. Our marriage has been a blessing. I have gained even more respect for the institution over the past 3 decades and will defend it against attack.
  • 3. But to sustain a marriage for 50 years you have to get real a little bit and find someone who is understanding and who you can grow with. My mom always says 'Marry the man who loves you a millimeter more.'

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture is a science arising out of many other sciences and adorned with much and varied learning by the help of which a judgment is formed of those works which are the result of other arts.
  • 2. Of all the lessons most relevant to architecture today Japanese flexibility is the greatest.
  • 3. Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort expressed in organic simplicity.
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