It's an act of imagination just as valid as any serious competitor, like a drama or the novel [on comedy, that is]
Armando IannucciScience does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo EmersonFew people have the imagination for reality.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheSometimes 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 VerneCowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Ernest HemingwayOut 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 Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds
Zig ZiglarReason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.
C S LewisWe 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 BronowskiThe great instrument of moral good is the imagination.
Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe 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 BatesonThis is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
Adam SmithFew things are more deeply rooted in the collective imagination of the English than the village cricket match.
Geoffrey MoorhouseApathy 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 ToynbeeSomethings are best left to the imagination and some things that can be spoken are better off not said.
Lori Ann FelkerThere is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheNeither 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 MozartOur imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Charles KetteringIt's like a secret world simmering away [on her imagination]
Esther FreudThings are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
Ralph Waldo EmersonWe remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.
Neville CardusImagination 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 WildeTo 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 StevensThere 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 HuntImagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert EinsteinImagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Henry MillerLiberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
Ambrose BierceThe moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.
Sheila BallantyneTo invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas EdisonA 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 MaltzI 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 DanesMy imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
John KeatsEverything 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 AddisonI think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
Billy ConnellyEvery great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John DeweyHe'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 imagination is man's power over nature.
Wallace StevensA man with a music-hall imagination [on Johnston]
John ArlottPhilosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Isaac DisraeliAmerica 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 soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Henry Ward Beecher Some people have active imaginations, but they don't know me and they're wrong if they think they do.
Yamila DiazOur 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 GoreThe past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future
Jessamyn WestLife is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
Bill HicksAn 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 CallasHe 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 SaganAn 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?]
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