Always have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it
J K RowlingLittle men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds
Zig ZiglarThe past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future
Jessamyn WestOur thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
Orison Swett MardenTo invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas EdisonThe moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.
Sheila BallantyneA man with a music-hall imagination [on Johnston]
John ArlottThere 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 HuntAn 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 CallasThere 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 HenryThe great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyPhilosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Isaac DisraeliWorks 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 ColeridgeScience does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo EmersonImagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl SaganEverything 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 AddisonAn 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 HanslickReality leaves a lot to the imagination.
John LennonImagination 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 WildeHe is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart
Washington IrvingLiberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
Ambrose BierceApathy 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 ToynbeeIt 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 PaveseEvery great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John DeweyBut fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
Iris MurdochThe soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Henry Ward Beecher 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 is more important than knowledge.
Albert EinsteinOur 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 GoreHe 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 JamesSometimes 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 VerneA financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.
Arthur W PineroThe soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Henry Ward Beecher We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do.
Jacob BronowskiImagination, 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 remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.
Neville CardusThe imagination is man's power over nature.
Wallace StevensFew things are more deeply rooted in the collective imagination of the English than the village cricket match.
Geoffrey MoorhouseTo regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
Wallace StevensAnd 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 PlathFacts have long since upstaged fiction, and the novelistic imagination now contents itself with documenting incidents it wouldn't have the temerity to invent.
Peter ConradImagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Henry MillerOur imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Charles KetteringLife is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
Bill HicksWe cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy GarlandIt's an act of imagination just as valid as any serious competitor, like a drama or the novel [on comedy, that is]
Armando IannucciImagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Lauren BacallReason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C S LewisSome books stretch the imagination. This one mugs it. [On the novel Spares]
David BaddielNeither 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 Mozart
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