The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
~By Bryant H. McGill ~
For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
~By Jean Dubuffet ~
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
~By Washington Irving ~
We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.
~By Terry Brooks ~
A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
~By Russell Page ~
The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.
~By William Shakespeare ~
The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?
~By Marquis de Sade ~
Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.
~By Terry Wogan ~
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 ~
I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.
~By Janet Jackson ~
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
~By Ursula K. Le Guin ~
The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.
~By Derek Walcott ~
It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world.
~By David Korten ~
I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.
~By Franz Schubert ~
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
~By George Jean Nathan ~
When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.
~By Susan Sarandon ~
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
~By Bela Lugosi ~
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 ~
I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.
~By Terry Brooks ~
To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
~By John Burroughs ~
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
~By Jimi Hendrix ~
Where there is no imagination there is no horror.
~By Arthur Conan Doyle ~
But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.
~By Roger McGuinn ~
President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.
~By Dennis Hastert ~
Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.
~By Janet Frame ~
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 ~
Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.
~By Ludwig Wittgenstein ~
The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society.
~By Charles Horton Cooley ~
My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!
~By Randy Castillo ~
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
~By S. E. Hinton ~
It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.
~By Ursula K. Le Guin ~
One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.
~By Ella Maillart ~
George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.
~By Peter Mayhew ~
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
~By Catherine the Great ~
But if I have a lot of imagination, I could tell myself whatever I wanted, you know. I handle myself quite well. I'm kind of fascist with myself, you know. There's no discussion. There is an order. You follow it.
~By Karl Lagerfeld ~
Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
~By Emile M. Cioran ~
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
~By Carl Sagan ~
The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
~By Elizabeth Drew ~
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
~By Martha Gellhorn ~
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 ~
Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.
~By Marcus Aurelius ~
Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
~By Walt Disney ~
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.
~By John Keats ~
Imagination rules the world.
~By Napoleon Bonaparte ~
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 ~
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
~By James Russell Lowell ~
Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
~By Franz Kafka ~
When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.
~By Samuel Dash ~
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 ~
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
~By Charles de Gaulle ~
By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.
~By Dorthea Brande ~
Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse.
~By Mary Wesley ~
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
~By Charles Kettering ~
The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don't have a problem with it because of the way this character's been written.
~By Jeri Ryan ~
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
~By John Muir ~
Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.
~By Marcello Mastroianni ~
A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.
~By Fred G. Gosman ~
Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.
~By Victor Hugo ~
Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.
~By Terry Brooks ~
The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open.
~By John Berger ~
When you're young you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best!
~By Devon Werkheiser ~
Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
~By Bill Hicks ~
Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it.
~By Simone Weil ~
Musicals are, by nature, theatrical, meaning poetic, meaning having to move the audience's imagination and create a suspension of disbelief, by which I mean there's no fourth wall.
~By Stephen Sondheim ~
Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth.
~By Cyril Connolly ~
A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately, but write from recollection, and trust more to the imagination than the memory.
~By Samuel Taylor Coleridge ~
My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
~By John Keats ~
Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.
~By Rod Serling ~
There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.
~By Leigh Hunt ~
Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.
~By Doris Day ~
We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.
~By Deepak Chopra ~
Ghost stories really scare me. I have such a big imagination that after I watch a horror movie like 'The Grudge', I look in the corners of my room for the next two days.
~By Vanessa Hudgens ~
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 ~
I loved the world of imagination.
~By R. A. Salvatore ~
Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own.
~By Robert Collier ~
I don't think art is propaganda; it should be something that liberates the soul, provokes the imagination and encourages people to go further. It celebrates humanity instead of manipulating it.
~By Keith Haring ~
One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.
~By Alan Rickman ~
People can die of mere imagination.
~By Geoffrey Chaucer ~
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
~By Jean Jacques Rousseau ~
In The Touch, the love scenes are the same as they were in The Thorn Birds or anything else I've ever written. I find a way of saying that either it was heaven or hell but in a way that still leaves room for the reader to use their own imagination.
~By Colleen McCullough ~
People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.
~By Ann Wilson ~
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
~By Noam Chomsky ~
I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.
~By Man Ray ~
I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.
~By Dirk Benedict ~
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
~By Leonardo da Vinci ~
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
~By Ronald Reagan ~
Science does not know its debt to imagination.
~By Ralph Waldo Emerson ~
Formulate and stamp indelibly on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade. Your mind will seek to develop the picture... Do not build up obstacles in your imagination.
~By Norman Vincent Peale ~
People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
~By Tom Robbins ~
Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.
~By Peter Sotos ~
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.
~By Claire Danes ~
Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.
~By Eartha Kitt ~
You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.
~By Peter Shaffer ~
I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.
~By Amy Tan ~
It is clear that the pharmaceutical industry is not, by any stretch of the imagination, doing enough to ensure that the poor have access to adequate medical care.
~By Paul Farmer ~
But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
~By James Thomson ~
We have to instill in them the skills they need to succeed at a young age and open up their imaginations to the very real opportunities they can be afforded if they put their minds to it.
~By Michael N. Castle ~
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