An 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 CallasImagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can.
Ingrid BengisWe 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 BronowskiLiberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
Ambrose BierceFew things are more deeply rooted in the collective imagination of the English than the village cricket match.
Geoffrey MoorhouseLittle men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds
Zig ZiglarIt's an act of imagination just as valid as any serious competitor, like a drama or the novel [on comedy, that is]
Armando IannucciThe soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Henry Ward Beecher The imagination is man's power over nature.
Wallace StevensApathy 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 ToynbeePhilosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Isaac DisraeliEverybody in their own imagination decides what scary is
Yvonne CraigYou 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 MorganA financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.
Arthur W PineroLyrically 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 DioHe is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart
Washington IrvingReality leaves a lot to the imagination.
John LennonOur 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 GoreNeither 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 MozartHe'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 FletcherBut fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
Iris MurdochEverything 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 AddisonThe past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future
Jessamyn WestA man with a music-hall imagination [on Johnston]
John ArlottWe cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy GarlandYou can make sounds and music out of pretty much anything with a little imagination and putting your mind to it!
Stan FrebergCowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Ernest HemingwayImagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Henry MillerReason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C S LewisThe moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.
Sheila BallantyneTo speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
George Jean NathanI 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 DanesThings are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
Ralph Waldo EmersonI think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
Billy ConnellyIt's like a secret world simmering away [on her imagination]
Esther FreudOur thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
Orison Swett MardenA 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 LongfellowYou cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark TwainTo invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas EdisonFacts have long since upstaged fiction, and the novelistic imagination now contents itself with documenting incidents it wouldn't have the temerity to invent.
Peter ConradIt 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 PaveseLife is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
Bill HicksImagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert EinsteinTake 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 BaruchAn 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 HanslickAnyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination.
James FarmerAlways have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it
J K RowlingSomethings are best left to the imagination and some things that can be spoken are better off not said.
Lori Ann FelkerWe remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.
Neville CardusSometimes 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 Verne
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