Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFor 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 MaltzEverybody in their own imagination decides what scary is
Yvonne CraigApathy 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 moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.
Sheila BallantyneFew people have the imagination for reality.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheWe remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.
Neville CardusOn 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 WilliamsThe 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 BatesonReality leaves a lot to the imagination.
John LennonImagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert EinsteinSometimes 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 VerneMy imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
John KeatsThis is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
Adam SmithTo invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas EdisonLiberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
Ambrose BierceHe 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 JamesThe imagination is man's power over nature.
Wallace StevensIt's amazing what you can do with an E in A-level art, twisted imagination and a chainsaw. [He won the Turner Prize]
Damien HirstAnd 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 PlathOut 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 I 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 DanesImagination, 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 NabokovLife is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
Bill HicksThe soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Henry Ward Beecher Works 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 ColeridgeI dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.
Don KingThere is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheTo speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
George Jean NathanImagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can.
Ingrid BengisAnyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination.
James FarmerCowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Ernest HemingwayFew 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 IrvingNeither 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 MozartIt's like a secret world simmering away [on her imagination]
Esther FreudA financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.
Arthur W PineroThe Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.
J R R TolkienWe cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy GarlandLittle men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds
Zig ZiglarImagination 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 WildeTake 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 BaruchI think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
Billy ConnellyImagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Lauren BacallIn 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 CloseIt 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 BaileyOur thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
Orison Swett MardenPhilosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Isaac DisraeliYou cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark TwainYou 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
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