A man with a music-hall imagination [on Johnston]
John ArlottLiberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
Ambrose BierceImagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl SaganSomethings are best left to the imagination and some things that can be spoken are better off not said.
Lori Ann FelkerOut with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
Camille Paglia Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C S LewisLyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.
Ronnie DioOn Wales losing 28-9 against Australia: 'No leadership, no ideas. Not even enough imagination to thump someone in the line-up when the ref wasn't looking'
JPR WilliamsHe is outside of everything, and alien everywhere. He is an aesthetic solitary. His beautiful, light imagination is the wing that on the autumn evening just brushes the dusky window.
Henry JamesWe remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.
Neville CardusImagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can.
Ingrid BengisAlways have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it
J K RowlingThere is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheEverything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
Joseph AddisonI dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.
Don KingOur imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Charles KetteringOur thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
Orison Swett MardenReality leaves a lot to the imagination.
John LennonMy imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
John KeatsAn art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination. [What does modern art too then?]
Eduard HanslickFacts have long since upstaged fiction, and the novelistic imagination now contents itself with documenting incidents it wouldn't have the temerity to invent.
Peter ConradFew things are more deeply rooted in the collective imagination of the English than the village cricket match.
Geoffrey MoorhouseHe is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart
Washington IrvingThe past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future
Jessamyn WestAnd by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia PlathTake the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful of courage and daring, stir well and bring to a boil.
Bernard BaruchIt's an act of imagination just as valid as any serious competitor, like a drama or the novel [on comedy, that is]
Armando IannucciI have a huge, active imagination, [and] I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman.
Claire DanesA financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.
Arthur W PineroYou see, my good friend, how much we are the creatures of situation and circumstance, and with what pliant servility the mind resigns itself to the impressions of the senses, or the illusions of the imagination
Lady MorganFor imagination sets the goal picture which our automatic mechanism works on. We act, or fail to act, not because of will, as is so commonly believed, but because of imagination.
Maxwell MaltzThe great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyThings are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
Ralph Waldo EmersonIt's amazing what you can do with an E in A-level art, twisted imagination and a chainsaw. [He won the Turner Prize]
Damien HirstA vague recollection fills my mind, an image dazzling, but undefined, like the memory of a gorgeous dream. It crowds my brain confusedly, but will not stay. It changes like the tremulous sunshine on the wave, till imagination itself is dazzled, bewildered, overpowered.
Henry Wadsworth LongfellowOur democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people... The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.
Al GoreThe imagination is man's power over nature.
Wallace StevensCowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Ernest HemingwayWorks of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.
Samuel Taylor ColeridgeEverybody in their own imagination decides what scary is
Yvonne CraigAmerica was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S TrumanTo invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas EdisonAnyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination.
James FarmerIt's like a secret world simmering away [on her imagination]
Esther FreudTo speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
George Jean NathanSometimes I even ask myself if all this has really happened, if its pictures dwell in truth in my memory, and not merely in my imagination.
Jules VerneLife is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
Bill HicksThis is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
Adam SmithLittle men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds
Zig ZiglarYou cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
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