"An uncontrolled imagination may become as surely intoxicated by overindulgence as a toper may do bodily with strong drink."

-- Thomas Chandler Haliburton

#Strong Quotes #Imagination Quotes #May Quotes

“People, and especially theologians, should try to familiarize themselves with scientific ideas. Of course, science is technical in many respects, but there are some very good books that try to set out some of the conceptual structure of science.”
“I do not worship matter; I worship the Creator of matter who became matter for my sake.”
“I have no control over what people think of me but I have 100% control of what I think of myself.”
“I have never heard anyone say This is it. I know right now is the high point of my life. It will never get any better. Only in retrospect do we recognize the best times and of course then it is too late.”
“One could think of a person who seems to have two opposing and contradictory sides to his personality; but it turns out that in the end the two sides are complementary. The same happens with an artist's work: deep down, what appear as contradictory sides are merely different registers, different aspects of the reality that the artist inhabits”

Source : Susan Kismaric, Manuel Álvarez Bravo, Museum of Modern Art (New York, N.Y.) (1997). “Manuel Alvarez Bravo”
“When you speak a new language you must see if you can translate all of the poetry of your old language into the new one.”
“I don't know how many years it was before I arrived at a formulated philosophy that the happiest thing to do, always, when visiting an individual or a country, is to admit, by word or manner, how much I'm finding there that my life had lacked hitherto”
“My scare value is high. My arena is controversy. My tough front is my biggest asset.”

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