We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.
Neville CardusOur thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
Orison Swett MardenThe 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 BatesonTake 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 BaruchIt's an act of imagination just as valid as any serious competitor, like a drama or the novel [on comedy, that is]
Armando IannucciAmerica was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
Harry S TrumanThere 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 HuntSomethings are best left to the imagination and some things that can be spoken are better off not said.
Lori Ann FelkerSometimes 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 VerneSome people have active imaginations, but they don't know me and they're wrong if they think they do.
Yamila DiazI think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
Billy ConnellySome books stretch the imagination. This one mugs it. [On the novel Spares]
David BaddielIt 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 BaileyEvery great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John DeweyThe past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future
Jessamyn WestLittle men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds
Zig ZiglarThere 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 HenryImagination, 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 NabokovImagination is more important than knowledge.
Albert EinsteinImagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl SaganAlways have a vivid imagination, for you never know when you might need it
J K RowlingEverything 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 invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas EdisonYou cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark TwainNeither 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 MozartYou 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 MorganWorks 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 ColeridgeLyrically 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 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 is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.
Henry MillerFew things are more deeply rooted in the collective imagination of the English than the village cricket match.
Geoffrey MoorhouseLiberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
Ambrose BiercePhilosophy becomes poetry, and science imagination, in the enthusiasm of genius.
Isaac DisraeliScience does not know its debt to imagination.
Ralph Waldo EmersonOur 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 GoreI dare to be great. The man without imagination stands unhurt and hath no wings. This is my credo, this is my forte.
Don KingLife is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
Bill HicksThere is nothing more frightful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheAnd 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 PlathIt 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 PaveseA 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 LongfellowImagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can.
Ingrid BengisA financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.
Arthur W PineroFor 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 MaltzAn 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 HanslickWe cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy GarlandFew people have the imagination for reality.
Johann Wolfgang Von GoetheAn 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 CallasTo speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
George Jean NathanImagination 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 Wilde
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