The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Henry Ward Beecher Cowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Ernest HemingwayApathy 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 ToynbeeFew things are more deeply rooted in the collective imagination of the English than the village cricket match.
Geoffrey MoorhouseI dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.
Don KingAnyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination.
James FarmerThe great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyWe remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.
Neville CardusFacts have long since upstaged fiction, and the novelistic imagination now contents itself with documenting incidents it wouldn't have the temerity to invent.
Peter ConradThe Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.
J R R TolkienOn 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 WilliamsImagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Lauren BacallLiberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
Ambrose BierceAlways have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it
J K RowlingHe 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 JamesTo speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
George Jean NathanImagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl SaganThe soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Henry Ward Beecher Everything 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 AddisonAmerica was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S TrumanThe 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 BatesonYou can make sounds and music out of pretty much anything with a little imagination and putting your mind to it!
Stan FrebergOur 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 GoreIt 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 PaveseYou 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 MorganThe imagination is man's power over nature.
Wallace StevensThere 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 HenryIn real cricket, the player who has developed imagination and skill mkaes the game, but in the one day match it is the other way round. The match dictates to the player.
Brian CloseOur imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Charles KetteringWe cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy GarlandAn 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 HanslickImagination, 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 NabokovA man with a music-hall imagination [on Johnston]
John ArlottTo invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas EdisonReason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C S LewisIt 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 BaileyFor 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 MaltzScience does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo EmersonImagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Henry MillerMy imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
John KeatsSome people have active imaginations, but they don't know me and they're wrong if they think they do.
Yamila DiazBut fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
Iris MurdochAnd 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 PlathThere are two worlds, the world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imaginations
Leigh HuntIt's like a secret world simmering away [on her imagination]
Esther FreudAn opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in my imagination, it becomes my life, and it stays part of my life long after I've left the opera house.
Maria CallasLyrically 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 DioImagination is a quality given a man to compensate him for what he is not, and a sense of humour was provided to console him for what he is.
Oscar WildeIt'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 Longfellow
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