Function Quote by Anonymous

“the function of imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange; not so much to make…

— G.K. Chesterton

The imagination is the power that enables us to perceive the normal in the abnormal, the opposite of chaos in chaos.

— Wallace Stevens

The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking, fun-poking imitations of it.

— Fritz Leiber

Nothing, perhaps, is strange, once you have accepted life itself, the great strange business which includes all lesser strangeness.

— Rose Macaulay

For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.

— Arthur Conan Doyle

Define weird in a world where almost everything's possible and you have no concrete point of origin.

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when…

— Lori Lansens

Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function.

— Jules Feiffer

In order to go on with our lives, we are always capable of making the ominous into the merely strange.

— Tracy Kidder

Sometimes, some things have to settle, and you have to think about the intention of it.

— Edgar Wright

In your imagination, you can perfect things in a way you can't do in your everyday life.

— Washed Out

We are terribly imaginative, as far as technique in science is concerned. As far as changes in social arrangements are concerned, we lack utterly…

— Erich Fromm