Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination.
James FarmerHe is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart
Washington IrvingIt is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?
Cesare PaveseBut fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
Iris MurdochHe's still a relatively young captain but he shows real imagination and his fields are well thought out, it just depends, sometimes you have to stop the fours, sometimes you can let them go by [on Michael Vaughan]
Duncan FletcherOur imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Charles KetteringScience does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo EmersonLittle men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds
Zig ZiglarWe remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.
Neville CardusImagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert EinsteinWorks 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 ColeridgeThe imagination is man's power over nature.
Wallace StevensApathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.
Arnold ToynbeeThe Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from the richness of individual lives.
Mary BatesonImagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can.
Ingrid BengisThere are all sorts of topics and themes that just recur time and time again, which either means people have less imagination or that people never get bored of them... or both!
Buck HenryReality leaves a lot to the imagination.
John LennonFew people have the imagination for reality.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheThe past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future
Jessamyn WestNeither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.
Wolfgang Amadeus MozartThe great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.
Sheila BallantyneEverybody in their own imagination decides what scary is
Yvonne CraigOn 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 WilliamsSome books stretch the imagination. This one mugs it. [On the novel Spares]
David BaddielImagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.
Vladimir NabokovWe cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy GarlandAmerica was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S TrumanIt takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.
David BaileyYou can make sounds and music out of pretty much anything with a little imagination and putting your mind to it!
Stan FrebergOur thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
Orison Swett MardenIt's like a secret world simmering away [on her imagination]
Esther FreudYou 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 MorganThere is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheImagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Henry MillerAlways have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it
J K RowlingThe soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Henry Ward Beecher Our 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 GoreI 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 DanesIt's an act of imagination just as valid as any serious competitor, like a drama or the novel [on comedy, that is]
Armando IannucciFacts have long since upstaged fiction, and the novelistic imagination now contents itself with documenting incidents it wouldn't have the temerity to invent.
Peter ConradEverything 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 AddisonThis is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
Adam SmithA man with a music-hall imagination [on Johnston]
John ArlottA financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.
Arthur W PineroSome people have active imaginations, but they don't know me and they're wrong if they think they do.
Yamila DiazCowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Ernest HemingwayI think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
Billy ConnellyAn 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 HanslickTo invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
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