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 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 PaveseCowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Ernest HemingwayEvery great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John DeweyImagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl SaganLyrically 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 DioEverything 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 AddisonImagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Lauren BacallImagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Henry MillerOur thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
Orison Swett MardenFew people have the imagination for reality.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheBut fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
Iris MurdochThere 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 HenryWe cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy GarlandOur 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 GoreApathy 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 MoorhouseOn 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 WilliamsAlways have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it
J K RowlingScience does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOur imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Charles KetteringAmerica 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 Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.
J R R TolkienA man with a music-hall imagination [on Johnston]
John ArlottTake 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 BaruchIt's an act of imagination just as valid as any serious competitor, like a drama or the novel [on comedy, that is]
Armando IannucciA financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.
Arthur W PineroSometimes 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 VerneAn 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 CallasIn 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's amazing what you can do with an E in A-level art, twisted imagination and a chainsaw. [He won the Turner Prize]
Damien HirstSome books stretch the imagination. This one mugs it. [On the novel Spares]
David BaddielWorks 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 moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.
Sheila BallantyneThings are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
Ralph Waldo EmersonTo speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
George Jean NathanAnyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination.
James FarmerTo invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas EdisonFor 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 MaltzYou 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 MorganHe is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart
Washington IrvingIt's like a secret world simmering away [on her imagination]
Esther FreudA 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 LongfellowHe 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 JamesSome people have active imaginations, but they don't know me and they're wrong if they think they do.
Yamila DiazWe remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.
Neville CardusYou cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark TwainImagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can.
Ingrid BengisFacts have long since upstaged fiction, and the novelistic imagination now contents itself with documenting incidents it wouldn't have the temerity to invent.
Peter ConradHe'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 Fletcher
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