The moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.
Sheila BallantyneThere 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 HuntYou 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 VerneIt 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 BaileyHe'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 FletcherWorks 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 ColeridgeAnd 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 PlathThe past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future
Jessamyn WestImagination 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 LewisReality leaves a lot to the imagination.
John LennonOur thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
Orison Swett MardenFacts have long since upstaged fiction, and the novelistic imagination now contents itself with documenting incidents it wouldn't have the temerity to invent.
Peter ConradBut fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
Iris MurdochFor 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 MaltzThis is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
Adam SmithTo invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas EdisonFew things are more deeply rooted in the collective imagination of the English than the village cricket match.
Geoffrey MoorhouseEvery great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John DeweyIt's an act of imagination just as valid as any serious competitor, like a drama or the novel [on comedy, that is]
Armando IannucciEverything 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 AddisonTo 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 StevensAn 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 CallasCowardice, as distinguished from panic, is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend the functioning of the imagination.
Ernest HemingwayAnyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination.
James FarmerWe cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy GarlandApathy 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 ToynbeeImagination 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 speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
George Jean NathanWe 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 BronowskiThere 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 HenryAmerica was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S TrumanHe 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 JamesI dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.
Don KingHe is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart
Washington IrvingOur 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 GoreA financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.
Arthur W PineroThe soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Henry Ward Beecher The imagination is man's power over nature.
Wallace StevensYou cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark TwainOut 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, 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 NabokovAlways have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it
J K RowlingYou 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 MorganThe 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 BatesonSomethings are best left to the imagination and some things that can be spoken are better off not said.
Lori Ann FelkerImagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl SaganSome books stretch the imagination. This one mugs it. [On the novel Spares]
David BaddielA 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 Longfellow
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