A man with a music-hall imagination [on Johnston]
John ArlottBut fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
Iris MurdochImagination, 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 NabokovThe soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Henry Ward Beecher You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark TwainFacts have long since upstaged fiction, and the novelistic imagination now contents itself with documenting incidents it wouldn't have the temerity to invent.
Peter ConradAmerica was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S TrumanReason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C S LewisIn 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 HirstImagination 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 WildeEverybody in their own imagination decides what scary is
Yvonne CraigSome people have active imaginations, but they don't know me and they're wrong if they think they do.
Yamila DiazImagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Henry MillerThe 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 BatesonAnyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination.
James FarmerFew people have the imagination for reality.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheHe is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart
Washington IrvingHe 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 JamesImagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl SaganLiberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
Ambrose BierceOut 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 Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Lauren BacallImagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert EinsteinIt 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 BaileyWe cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy GarlandReality leaves a lot to the imagination.
John LennonScience does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo EmersonMy imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
John KeatsI think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
Billy ConnellyFew things are more deeply rooted in the collective imagination of the English than the village cricket match.
Geoffrey MoorhouseA financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.
Arthur W PineroWe remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.
Neville CardusA 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 LongfellowTo 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 StevensEverything 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 AddisonThere is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheLyrically 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 DioPhilosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Isaac DisraeliAn 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 HanslickYou can make sounds and music out of pretty much anything with a little imagination and putting your mind to it!
Stan FrebergSometimes 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 VerneOur imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Charles KetteringCowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Ernest HemingwayOn 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 WilliamsI dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.
Don KingHe'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 FletcherThe soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Henry Ward Beecher Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
Orison Swett MardenThe moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.
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