The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.
J R R TolkienTo invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas EdisonMy imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
John KeatsWorks 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 ColeridgeSome books stretch the imagination. This one mugs it. [On the novel Spares]
David BaddielTake 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 BaruchA man with a music-hall imagination [on Johnston]
John ArlottWe 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 BronowskiHe'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 FletcherLife is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
Bill HicksBut fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
Iris MurdochFew people have the imagination for reality.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheHe 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 moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.
Sheila BallantyneScience does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo EmersonImagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can.
Ingrid BengisTo speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
George Jean NathanAn 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 HanslickAnd 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 PlathImagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Lauren BacallSometimes 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 VerneI dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.
Don KingThe 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 DanesIt 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 BaileyFew things are more deeply rooted in the collective imagination of the English than the village cricket match.
Geoffrey MoorhouseOur 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 GoreEverybody in their own imagination decides what scary is
Yvonne CraigThere is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheCowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Ernest HemingwayYou cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark TwainOur imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Charles KetteringThings are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOur thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
Orison Swett MardenEvery great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John DeweyThere 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 HenryImagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Henry MillerYou 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 MorganImagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl SaganImagination, 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 NabokovOut 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 The 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 BatesonAn 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 DioA 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 LongfellowFor 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 MaltzNeither 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 past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future
Jessamyn WestWe cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy GarlandAlways have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it
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