Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
~By John Irving ~
We especially need imagination in science.
~By Maria Mitchell ~
For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.
~By Hugo Pratt ~
If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination.
~By Michael Moriarty ~
We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.
~By Ray Bradbury ~
The pleasures of the imagination are as it were only drawings and models which are played with by poor people who cannot afford the real thing.
~By Georg C. Lichtenberg ~
The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself.
~By William Blake ~
I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.
~By Derek Jacobi ~
Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.
~By Bruce Catton ~
In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.
~By Wallace Stevens ~
My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.
~By Nicole Kidman ~
The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
~By Ursula K. Le Guin ~
Out 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.
~By Camille Paglia ~
Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.
~By Ida Tarbell ~
Our religious belief usurps the place of our sensations, our imaginations of our judgment. We no longer look to actions, trace their consequences, and then deduce the rule; we first make the rule, and then, right or wrong, force the action to square with it.
~By Francis Wright ~
Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.
~By Robinson Jeffers ~
Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.
~By Arthur Keith ~
Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.
~By Frederick Henry Hedge ~
An idea is salvation by imagination.
~By Frank Lloyd Wright ~
Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men.
~By George Henry Lewes ~
There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
~By William Godwin ~
I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.
~By Leslie Banks ~
People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination.
~By Curtis Sittenfeld ~
I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.
~By Fay Godwin ~
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
~By Edgar Allan Poe ~
Imagination creates some big monsters.
~By Olivier Martinez ~
When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.
~By Ahmet Zappa ~
The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.
~By Judith Krantz ~
I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.
~By Whoopi Goldberg ~
The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
~By Henry Ward Beecher ~
The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.
~By Henry Ford ~
Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it's always been there. It's been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had.
~By Janet Jackson ~
Imagination creates reality.
~By Richard Wagner ~
An 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.
~By Maria Callas ~
As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may not have as much imagination as you would expect.
~By Steve Kanaly ~
Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.
~By Lionel Stander ~
The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece.
~By Gilbert Murray ~
The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.
~By Robert Fitzgerald ~
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
~By Percy Bysshe Shelley ~
My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.
~By Kim Elizabeth ~
The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.
~By Tony Robbins ~
Although Bill Finger literally typed the scripts in the early days, he wrote the scripts from ideas that we mutually collaborated on. Many of the unique concepts and story twists also came from my own fertile imagination.
~By Bob Kane ~
There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
~By Edith Wharton ~
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.
~By Franz Schubert ~
But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination.
~By Laura Miller ~
Only in your imagination can you revise.
~By Fay Wray ~
So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.
~By Diana Krall ~
I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.
~By James Broughton ~
My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.
~By Patricia Highsmith ~
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
~By Charles Kettering ~
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
~By Adam Smith ~
I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.
~By Breckin Meyer ~
I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.
~By Chris Cooper ~
But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
~By James Thomson ~
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
~By Oliver Wendell Holmes ~
A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.
~By Fred G. Gosman ~
If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.
~By Miranda Otto ~
I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.
~By Andrew Wyeth ~
I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself.
~By Pete Rozelle ~
The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
~By Elizabeth Drew ~
It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.
~By Henry David Thoreau ~
Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.
~By Joyce Cary ~
The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place.
~By Matthew Sweet ~
Live out of your imagination, not your history.
~By Stephen Covey ~
We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
~By Maria Montessori ~
A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
~By Brad Henry ~
Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
~By Blaise Pascal ~
Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
~By Franz Kafka ~
Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
~By Voltaire ~
Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
~By Sofia Kovalevskaya ~
Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
~By Felix Bloch ~
Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.
~By Eduard Hanslick ~
There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
~By Edmund Burke ~
Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.
~By Marquis de Sade ~
But fantasy kills imagination, pornography is death to art.
~By Iris Murdoch ~
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
~By Washington Irving ~
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
~By George Jean Nathan ~
Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.
~By Plato ~
When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.
~By Samuel Dash ~
I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.
~By Rob Walton ~
I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
~By Beverly Cleary ~
There's no environment. Use your imagination. There's no fourth wall, whether it's the first time you've told this story about her life, or the sixth time.
~By Jill Clayburgh ~
Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.
~By Karl Philipp Moritz ~
To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.
~By Donald Sutherland ~
It 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.
~By David Bailey ~
On the one hand, the guns were there to help capture the imagination of the people. But more important, since we knew that you couldn't observe the police without guns, we took our guns with us to let the police know that we have an equalizer.
~By Bobby Seale ~
It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.
~By Kevin J. Anderson ~
For 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.
~By Maxwell Maltz ~
Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.
~By James L. Farmer, Jr. ~
I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.
~By Patty Duke ~
Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.
~By L. Frank Baum ~
Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.
~By Henry Miller ~
You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.
~By Maimonides ~
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give us the ultimate human freedom... The power to choose, to respond, to change.
~By Stephen Covey ~
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