Shirley Henderson Quotes

If you're curious, London's an amazing place.

If you pay attention to the world, it's an amazing place. If you don't, it's whatever you think it is.

Everything that happens is at least one dimension smaller than you've imagined it to be.

Amazement awaits us at every corner.

But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all crude ideas began to resolve themselves into shape.

When I was a kid, we actually lived in a house that had been divided in two at one point, which meant that one room in our house opened up onto a brick wall. And I was convinced all I had to do was just open it the right way and it wouldn't be a brick wall. So I'd sidle over to the door and I'd pull it open.

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

New York is the coolest city. The place just never sleeps. It's amazing.

To be matter-of-fact about the world is to blunder into fantasy - and dull fantasy at that, as the real world is strange and wonderful.

There are things known and there are things unknown, and in between are the doors of perception.

I just find it fascinating, like everybody, to be in a different life. It's an escape.

The land of literature is a fairy land to those who view it at a distance, but, like all other landscapes, the charm fades on a nearer approach, and the thorns and briars become visible.

It is fun to try figure out the things that really are real and the things that aren't.

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

Certain things come to me; I just become intrigued by them and want to live inside them.

But,instead of what our imagination makes us suppose and which we worthless try to discover,life gives us something that we could hardly imagine.

If you read a lot, nothing is as great as you've imagined. Venice is - Venice is better.

I assure you that the world is not so amusing as we imagined.

Sometimes my brain writes a check that reality can't cash.

That didn’t happen, of course. Things never happened the way I imagined them.

the curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.

Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.

If truth is not acceptable, it becomes the imagination of others.

I had been taught to look for monsters and devils and I found ordinary people.

Everything and everybody is sooner or later identified, defined, and put in perspective. The truth as always is simultaneously better and worse than what the popular myth-making has it.