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 DanesLyrically 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 DioWe cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy GarlandImagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Lauren BacallYou can make sounds and music out of pretty much anything with a little imagination and putting your mind to it!
Stan FrebergFew people have the imagination for reality.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheThe Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination.
J R R TolkienNeither 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 MozartEverything 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 AddisonAnyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination.
James FarmerIt's amazing what you can do with an E in A-level art, twisted imagination and a chainsaw. [He won the Turner Prize]
Damien HirstThings are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.
Ralph Waldo EmersonSometimes 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 VerneEverybody in their own imagination decides what scary is
Yvonne CraigIt 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 PaveseIt's an act of imagination just as valid as any serious competitor, like a drama or the novel [on comedy, that is]
Armando IannucciHe is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart
Washington IrvingThe soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
Henry Ward Beecher Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Henry MillerLife is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
Bill HicksThe moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.
Sheila BallantyneOn 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 WilliamsAmerica was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S TrumanAn 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 HanslickBut fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
Iris MurdochScience does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo EmersonYou cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark TwainImagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl SaganImagination 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 WildeOur thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
Orison Swett MardenOut 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 We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.
Neville CardusWorks 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 ColeridgeIt 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 BaileyImagination, 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 NabokovThis is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
Adam SmithHe'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 past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future
Jessamyn WestLiberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
Ambrose BierceFor 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 MorganFacts have long since upstaged fiction, and the novelistic imagination now contents itself with documenting incidents it wouldn't have the temerity to invent.
Peter ConradSome people have active imaginations, but they don't know me and they're wrong if they think they do.
Yamila DiazLittle men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds
Zig ZiglarThe imagination is man's power over nature.
Wallace StevensThe 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 BatesonA 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 LongfellowAn 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 CallasEvery great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John DeweyHe 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 James
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