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Quotes with tag Imagination:

Author	Quote	Rank
Plato	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.	101
Harry S Truman	America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.	101
Brad Henry	A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.	101
Francis Spufford	Self-awareness is not the same thing as self-approval, any more than imagination is the same thing as day-dreaming.	101
Frank Auerbach	To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination.	101
Gary Zukav	The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.	101
Pat Conroy	Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.	101
Rick Riordan	I do like to wrap things up and leave some things to the readers' imagination.	101
Robert Fulghum	I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.	101
Simone Weil	Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.	101
Wallace Stevens	In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.	101
Yann Martel	Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.	101
Charlie Worsham	I'm in this really cool place in my career, where the stage I'm on that night, whether it's the Paisley tour, the CMT tour, or a bar with 10 people in it, it is the most important show I've ever played in my life. I go to the ends of my imagination to do something that's unforgettable every night.	101
Daniel Boulud	I love to create, and to me, the ultimate freedom of expression is a blank canvas or a block of clay to capture whatever emotions your imagination gives it.	101
David Walliams	I had a very happy childhood, but I wasn't that happy a child. I liked being alone and creating characters and voices. I think that's when your creativity is developed, when you're young. I liked the world of the imagination because it was an easy place to go to.	101
Guy Davenport	The difference between the Parthenon and the World Trade Center, between a French wine glass and a German beer mug, between Bach and John Philip Sousa, between Sophocles and Shakespeare, between a bicycle and a horse, though explicable by historical moment, necessity, and destiny, is before all a difference of imagination.	101
Henry George	The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.	101
Henry Samueli	Passion is what gives meaning to our lives. It's what allows us to achieve success beyond our wildest imagination. Try to find a career path that you have a passion for.	101
Marc Chagall	If I create from the heart, nearly everything works; if from the head, almost nothing.	101
Ben Lewin	I am more connected to the world of the imagination, but you don't have to have polio to do that.	101
Derek Walcott	The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.	101
Edan Lepucki	I have a darker imagination than most people.	101
Ellen Datlow	Dolls fire our collective imagination, for better and - too often - for worse. From life-size dolls the same height as the little girls who carry them, to dolls whose long hair can 'grow' longer, to Barbie and her fashionable sisters, dolls do double duty as child's play and the focus of adult art and adult fear.	101
Frank Leahy	There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.	101
Frederick Henry Hedge	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.	101
Jonas Salk	Hope lies in dreams, in imagination, and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality.	101
LeVar Burton	Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.	101
Natasha Calis	I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.	101
Roger McGuinn	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.	101
Alexandra Adornetto	Imagination makes us aware of limitless possibilities. How many of us haven't pondered the concept of infinity or imagined the possibility of time travel? In one of her poems, Emily Bronte likens imagination to a constant companion, but I prefer to think of it as a built-in entertainment system.	101
Garry Disher	I have no favourite genre or style but treat each novel with the same care, imagination and craftsmanship. It's as difficult to write a crime or a children's novel with a touch of style and grace as it is a literary novel.	101
John Millington Synge	Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.	101
Keahu Kahuanui	Because some of my at-home life was rough and lonely, I often looked to escape into my imagination. Science fiction provided a deep well to pull from and was something easily accessible to me.	101
Margaret Geller	Hunger, inadequate medical care, poor housing, and inferior schools are enemies of the sense of wonder. It is easier and less expensive in the long run to prevent a loss of imagination by providing adequate nutrition, housing, medical care, and schooling than it is to try to restore that loss.	101
Sam Raimi	I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.	101
Sam Weller	Browsing for books with a mouse and screen is not nearly as joyful an act as wandering the stacks and getting lost in the labyrinthine corridors of knowledge. The best libraries are places of imagination, education and community. The best libraries have mystery to them.	101
Sean O'Faolain	There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.	101
Simon Pegg	I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.	101
Tim DeKay	Doing 'White Collar,' quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke goes undercover.	101
Lisi Harrison	I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.	101
Timothy Spall	Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.	101
Devdutt Pattanaik	If you don't have imagination, you stop being human; animals don't have imagination; Alzheimer's is the death of imagination.	101
Dichen Lachman	I don't know about everyone else, but I really loved lunch and recess because it was an opportunity to get carried away with your imagination.	101
Elisabeth Sladen	Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented people.	101
Samuel Dash	When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.	101
Shahzia Sikander	For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.	101
Bruno Rossi	The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.	101
Christopher Isherwood	Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.	101
Jay S. Walker	All of imagination - everything that we think, we feel, we sense - comes through the human brain. And once we create new patterns in this brain, once we shape the brain in a new way, it never returns to its original shape.	101
Robinson Jeffers	Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.	101
Alfred Whitney Griswold	The only sure weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.	101
Alice Smith	I like to focus on making the music sound simple and true, and very lush and full. I think music should take you to somewhere else where you have the space to contemplate or exercise your imagination. All the while you should be feeling real good, like when you have a delicious and decadent meal, macaroni and cheese or foie gras.	101
Skyler Samuels	I want to be on the screen, I want to play dress up every day, I want be different people, I want to have fun, and I want to use my imagination.	101
Algernon H. Blackwood	His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.	101
Marcello Mastroianni	Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.	101
Russell Page	A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.	101
Jeffrey Katzenberg	What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.	101
John Burdett	It is quite amazing how hard the subconscious works when it is made to understand that this life is not a rehearsal, there is no safety net and no assurance of any final closure. It is also quite appalling to realize how catatonic the imagination can become when we hedge our bets, opt for the safer direction at every fork in the path.	101
Jerry Gillies	Make sure you visualize what you really want, not what someone else wants for you.	101
Joyce Cary	Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.	101
Jean Dubuffet	For me, insanity is super sanity. The normal is psychotic. Normal means lack of imagination, lack of creativity.	101
Carl Sagan	Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.	102
J. K. Rowling	Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.	102
Vladimir Nabokov	Genius is an African who dreams up snow.	102
Michelangelo	Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it.	102
Ada Lovelace	Imagination is the Discovering Faculty, pre-eminently. It is that which penetrates into the unseen worlds around us, the worlds of Science.	102
Arthur Conan Doyle	Where there is no imagination there is no horror.	102
Bryan Procter	Death is the tyrant of the imagination.	102
Chris Hemsworth	I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.	102
Edith Wharton	True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.	102
Frank Rich	While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.	102
Geoff Mulgan	The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.	102
Geraldine Brooks	The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure.	102
Guy Fieri	Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.	102
James A. Garfield	Ideas control the world.	102
Jorge Luis Borges	I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.	102
Josh Billings	There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.	102
Lindsey Stirling	Visualization - it's been huge for me. Your mind doesn't know the difference between imagination and reality. You can't always practice perfectly - my fingers will play a little bit out of tune, or my dance moves might not be as sharp - but in my mind, I can practice perfectly.	102
Paul Keating	Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.	102
Richard Wagner	Imagination creates reality.	102
Vikas Swarup	I did not go to any creative writing workshop; I did not major in literature. If I can write, anyone can write. All it needs is imagination.	102
William Ralph Inge	Nobody is bored when he is trying to make something that is beautiful, or to discover something that is true.	102
Yehuda Amichai	I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my religiousness as good - I think religion is good for children, especially educated children, because it allows for imagination, a whole imaginative world apart from the practical world.	102
Yvonne Craig	Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.	102
Alan Bennett	Teachers need to feel they are trusted. They must be allowed some leeway to use their imagination; otherwise, teaching loses all sense of wonder and excitement.	102
Brian K. Vaughan	I sort of jumped out of movies and into the lifeboat of comics. I loved it right away. It was the opposite of film school. Whatever was in my imagination could end up in the finished product. There were just no limitations.	102
Cynthia Ozick	An essay is a thing of the imagination. If there is information in an essay, it is by-the-by, and if there is an opinion, one need not trust it for the long run. A genuine essay rarely has an educational, polemical, or sociopolitical use; it is the movement of a free mind at play.	102
Doris Day	Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.	102
Fred Seibert	I really like dating stories, like in Betty and Veronica comics; I like David Lynch and H.P. Lovecraft for the dark gut-wrenching stuff, and I'm inspired by Miyazaki's films for the subtle heart-warming moments, as well as the moments that blew up my imagination.	102
Henry Williamson	Education must be aimed at creating a wider imagination in the child, not at suppressing. The child's mind must be set free.	102
Irving Howe	Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.	102
Jessamyn West	The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.	102
Linda Sue Park	With a book called 'Keeping Score,' I really did want to write a book about the Korean War, because I felt that it is the least understood war in the American cultural imagination. So I set out with the idea that Americans didn't know much about the Korean War and that I was going to try to fix a tiny bit of that.	102
Nina Blackwood	When you are young your imagination is so clear.	102
Peter Ackroyd	It may seem unfashionable to say so, but historians should seize the imagination as well as the intellect. History is, in a sense, a story, a narrative of adventure and of vision, of character and of incident. It is also a portrait of the great general drama of the human spirit.	102
Peter Shaffer	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.	102
Tony DiTerlizzi	I think I've got a decent imagination. I hope some of my stories inspire other young imaginations.	102
Alexander Chase	The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.	102
Bernard Werber	The best way to renew thought is to go outside the human imagination.	102
Cornelia Funke	I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.	102
Derek Jacobi	Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.	102
Eddie Marsan	There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.	102
Emile Coue	When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.	102
Francis Cabot Lowell	One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one's horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?	102
Gail Carson Levine	Encourage children to write their own stories, and then don't rain on their parade. Don't say, 'That's not true.' Applaud flights of fantasy. Help with spelling and grammar, but stand up and cheer the use of imagination.	102
Nicholas Ray	The imagination is a pretty precious source of protection.	102
Peter Sotos	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.	102
Theo Jansen	I can be fascinated with very little things. The clouds stimulate my imagination, and sometimes I just sit somewhere and go on dreaming for a long time. Your head is also a computer. When you're dreaming, you are simulating a world in which you are living.	102
William J. Mann	'Dark Shadows' was the spark that lit the fire of my childhood imagination. It wasn't polished; it wasn't perfect. But it gave us characters with real personalities and complicated motivations.	102
Alexandra Adornetto	Imagination and invention go hand in hand. Remember how lack of resources was never a problem in childhood games? Shift a few pieces of furniture around the living room, and you have yourself a fort.	102
Azar Nafisi	You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.	102
Charlie Kimball	Whenever I am not traveling during the winter, I am pushing hard in the gym. Even when I am traveling, I try to fit a workout in at the hotel. And if the hotel doesn't have a gym? You can get a good workout in your room with an exercise band and some imagination.	102
Diane Warren	I have a good imagination. Look, I know what it feels like to have a broken heart. I know what it feels like to feel something for somebody. I'm just too weird to be in a relationship.	102
John Banville	For memory, we use our imagination. We take a few strands of real time and carry them with us, then like an oyster we create a pearl around them.	102
Kim Elizabeth	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.	102
Linda Grant	I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by my bed have a plaintive, pleading quality to me - 'Read me, please!'	102
Samuel Ullman	Youth is not a time of life; it is a state of mind; it is not a matter of rosy cheeks, red lips and supple knees; it is a matter of the will, quality of the imagination, a vigor of the emotions; it is the freshness of the deep springs of life.	102
Deborah Ann Woll	I think it's fun to play with worlds that you can add a lot of your own imagination to. With 'True Blood,' you're not limited by anything, there are just leaps and bounds of the imagination you can take with these characters.	102
Elinor Wylie	I am better able to imagine hell than heaven; it is my inheritance, I suppose.	102
James L. Farmer, Jr.	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.	102
L. Frank Baum	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.	102
Leslie Banks	I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.	102
Max Irons	I mean, it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, 'I've got this great game of pretend,' and you play... As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish - it is weird but it's wonderful.	102
Adrien Brody	I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.	102
Laurette Taylor	Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.	102
Randy Castillo	My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!	102
Reeve Carney	I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.	102
Theodore Gericault	With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.	102
Andrea Mitchell	When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.	102
David Garrick	You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.	102
Jacob Epstein	My reading and drawing drew me away from the ordinary interests, and I lived a great deal in the world of imagination, feeding upon any book that fell into my hands. When I had got hold of a really thick book like Hugo's 'Les Miserables,' I was happy and would go off into a corner to devour it.	102
Michael Lindsay-Hogg	I didn't have the equipment for the regular world of being a lawyer. I didn't have the imagination for that. I did have a funny kind of ambition, but I didn't know where to put it.	102
Ada Louise Huxtable	A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.	102
Annabeth Gish	I am pretty scare-able. I guess that is why I like doing horror because my imagination can take me places.	102
Jack Prelutsky	Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.	102
Juno Temple	I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.	102
Richard Hofstadter	The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.	102
Shirley Hazzard	Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.	102
Joe Shuster	In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted.	102
Julian Schnabel	It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.	102
Michael Foot	She has no imagination and that means no compassion.	102
Joel C. Rosenberg	Now, I'm a failed political consultant. But sometimes fiction has a way of capturing people's imagination in a way that non-fiction doesn't. Conservatives typically haven't written much fiction - specifically political thrillers - over the years to educate, inspire and mobilize people on issues of great import, but we ought to.	102
Josh Cooke	When you're running around and playing, it's amazing ground for imagination, and that's really the biggest muscle you need for anything in the arts. I think it's probably the biggest training I've had.	102
Henry David Thoreau	This world is but a canvas to our imagination.	103
Gilbert K. Chesterton	There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.	103
Isaac Newton	A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.	103
John Dewey	Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.	103
John Keats	What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.	103
Arthur C. Clarke	New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!	103
Bill Bradley	Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!'	103
Eddie Rickenbacker	The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.	103
Fay Wray	Only in your imagination can you revise.	103
George Lucas	One thing about 'Star Wars' that I'm really proud of is that it expands the imagination. That's why I like the 'Star Wars' toys.	103
Nat Turner	When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would present themselves to my imagination; and whenever an opportunity occurred of looking at a book, when the school-children were getting their lessons, I would find many things that the fertility of my own imagination had depicted to me before.	103
Oliver Sacks	With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while they're going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.	103
Rob Bell	Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.	103
Robert Collier	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.	103
Robert Falcon Scott	I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.	103
Tycho Brahe	Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination.	103
William Trevor	The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.	103
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart	Neither 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.	103
Zac Posen	There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.	103
Brit Marling	I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.	103
Chris Riddell	I'm not a painter by any stretch of the imagination; I'm a dyed-in-the-wool traditional illustrator, and I begin with black and white. If I need colour, I add it over the top. There's a calligraphic element to it... it's about the texture of lines on the page.	103
David James Duncan	My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.	103
Dennis Potter	The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.	103
Emmitt Smith	Vision gets the dreams started. Dreaming employs your God-given imagination to reinforce the vision. Both are part of something I believe is absolutely necessary to building the life of a champion, a winner, a person of high character who is consistently at the top of whatever game he or she is in.	103
Felix Bloch	Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.	103
Frank Capra	A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.	103
Gaston Bachelard	Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.	103
Ishmael Reed	Writing poetry is the hard manual labor of the imagination.	103
Kristen Schaal	I think growing up on a farm in a certain amount of isolation, with not a lot of friends nearby, makes you entertain yourself and kind of grows your imagination - being alone is quite good for all that. You make up stories, talk to the animals, let them be an audience, a bunch of cows.	103
Lafcadio Hearn	A great many things which in times of lesser knowledge we imagined to be superstitious or useless, prove today on examination to have been of immense value to mankind.	103
Man Ray	I paint what cannot be photographed, that which comes from the imagination or from dreams, or from an unconscious drive.	103
Philip Guston	Painting and sculpture are very archaic forms. It's the only thing left in our industrial society where an individual alone can make something with not just his own hands, but brains, imagination, heart maybe.	103
Ralph Fiennes	Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.	103
Richard Wright	The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.	103
Susan Sarandon	When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.	103
Wayne McGregor	My influences change all the time; they have to remain current, because they're the things that capture your imagination and make you want to go into the studio.	103
Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt	You have to really use your imagination to refresh your daily life.	103
Geoffrey S. Fletcher	From stoplights to skyscrapers, turn anywhere in civilization and you will see imagination at work. It's in our inventions, advances and remedies and how a single parent masterminds each day. Imagination is boundless, surrounds us and resides in us all.	103
Laura Wade	I really don't know where my interest in death comes from. Maybe I've just got a twisted imagination. The truth is, I haven't had a hugely eventful life - maybe I'm compensating in my creative life. Or maybe I'm just a bit sick.	103
Lisa Unger	I've always had this in a kind of worst-case dark imagination. I want to know what the dark form in the window is. I want to know what the noise under the staircase is.	103
Pete Rozelle	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.	103
Rick Wakeman	I've got an overactive brain. I enjoy work, I enjoy life, and I'm not good at relaxing. I've also never slept very much due to this overactive imagination and my brain constantly thinking.	103
Sam Rockwell	I've studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. It's mainly about daydreaming. And the technique's really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene.	103
Charlie Simpson	Busted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination.	103
Cliff Martinez	I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's limitless.	103
David E. Kelley	Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.	103
Edmund Wilson	The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.	103
Kerry Thornley	What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.	103
Leonard Orr	It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.	103
Malcolm McDowell	I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.	103
Sofia Kovalevskaya	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.	103
William Warburton	Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.	103
Barbara Januszkiewicz	Imagination needs to be fed.	103
Connie Nielsen	If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.	103
Darren Shan	Anyone who has an imagination can write a book - it's cheap to do - but movies are big money.	103
Eduard Hanslick	An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.	103
Mark Van Doren	Bring ideas in and entertain them royally, for one of them may be the king.	103
Stewart O'Nan	As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view.	103
Daniel Bell	Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.	103
Luigi Barzini	To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.	103
Mallory Jansen	I have admired David Bromley's work for years. He possesses such a wild and vivid imagination and really sees the beauty in everything.	103
Mary Pope Osborne	My imagination is closer to a child's imagination than to a grown-up's.	103
Michael O'Brien	J.K. Rowling is a talented storyteller, but she has also used the style and technique of modern television and cinema media, which seizes the imagination by pummelling it, bombarding it with powerful stimuli, in a rapid pace, with plenty of emotional rewards.	103
Cher Wang	I always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time.	103
Jay S. Walker	For most of human history, there was a ruling class and then there was everybody else. If you were part of everybody else, it wasn't your job to imagine a different future, different ways of doing things. So, imagination is a fairly modern phenomenon.	103
Michael Apted	It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innovative filmmaking out there today.	103
Rogier van der Heide	Imagination is an instrument of survival.	103
Robert Doisneau	Nowadays people's visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.	103
Joe Shuster	In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was before TV - and Superman movies. We even visualized Superman billboards. And it's all come true.	103
Mark Victor Hansen	In imagination, there's no limitation.	103
Arthur Wing Pinero	A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.	103
James Merrill	And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.	103
Jerry Gillies	You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.	103
Judith Krantz	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.	103
Bruce Springsteen	I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination.	104
Deepak Chopra	Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.	104
John Muir	The power of imagination makes us infinite.	104
Robin Williams	You're only given a little spark of madness. You mustn't lose it.	104
William Butler Yeats	People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.	104
Julius Caesar	What we wish, we readily believe, and what we ourselves think, we imagine others think also.	104
Cesare Pavese	It 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?	104
Chris Brown	I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.	104
Chris Van Allsburg	The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.	104
Ellen Key	When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.	104
Franz Schubert	I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.	104
Hilary Mantel	Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you.	104
Horace Walpole	Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn't. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.	104
Ida Tarbell	Imagination is the only key to the future. Without it none exists - with it all things are possible.	104
Irma S. Rombauer	Most cocktails containing liquor are made today with gin and ingenuity. In brief, take an ample supply of the former and use your imagination. For the benefit of a minority, it is courteous to serve chilled fruit juice in addition to cocktails made with liquor.	104
Philip Roth	Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.	104
Whoopi Goldberg	I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.	104
Akshay Kumar	I do not stick to rules when cooking. I rely on my imagination.	104
Duane Michals	Trust that little voice in your head that says 'Wouldn't it be interesting if...'; And then do it.	104
James Weldon Johnson	The peculiar fascination which the South held over my imagination and my limited capital decided me in favor of Atlanta University; so about the last of September I bade farewell to the friends and scenes of my boyhood and boarded a train for the South.	104
Joshua Bell	For some reason I can't explain, artist and musicians tend to look younger than our age. Being in music, you need this youthful sense of discovery and wonder for what you're doing and keep your imagination open. That's a youthful way of looking at life and I think that reflects in how you age.	104
Juliette Gordon Low	To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.	104
Nolan North	I'm an actor. Whether I'm on stage, in front of a camera or a microphone, what I do is the same - although with videogames it requires a lot of imagination.	104
Peter Nivio Zarlenga	I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.	104
Terence McKenna	The imagination is the golden pathway to everywhere.	104
Terry Brooks	Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.	104
William Robertson Smith	Even the highest forms of sacrificial worship present much that is repulsive to modern ideas, and in particular it requires an effort to reconcile our imagination to the bloody ritual which is prominent in almost every religion which has a strong sense of sin.	104
Brian Jacques	I wanted to write something visual that I could read to the children. This was when I created the idea of Redwall Abbey in my imagination. As I wrote, the idea grew, and the manuscript along with it.	104
Bruce Catton	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.	104
Jonas Salk	There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.	104
Tom Chatfield	I love video games. I'm also slightly in awe of them. I'm in awe of their power in terms of imagination, in terms of technology, in terms of concept. But I think, above all, I'm in awe at their power to motivate, to compel us, to transfix us, like really nothing else we've ever invented has quite done before.	104
Adam Gopnik	The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.	104
Ashley Judd	Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.	104
Bill Plympton	I think it reflects well on the state of animation that people are knowledgeable about it and love the fantasy and imagination that goes into it.	104
Edgar Rice Burroughs	Imagination is but another name for super intelligence.	104
Eric Jerome Dickey	I'm just trying to write a good story, strictly from imagination. People just think it's random, they don't see the rewriting, phrasing of characters, choosing the words, bringing the world to light in which the characters live in. That creates an illusion that this is real.	104
Michael Steger	I think when your imagination goes to work, and when you're first bullied, you feel like you're going to die. School becomes a war zone, and you can't function.	104
Sarah Fielding	The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.	104
Thomas Traherne	To think the world therefore a general Bedlam, or place of madmen, and oneself a physician, is the most necessary point of present wisdom: an important imagination, and the way to happiness.	104
Tony Buzan	Many think of memory as rote learning, a linear stuffing of the brain with facts, where understanding is irrelevant. When you teach it properly, with imagination and association, understanding becomes a part of it.	104
Barbara Januszkiewicz	Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.	104
Carmen Agra Deedy	Listen to great storytellers; slowly, you will learn about voice, timing, tension, structure, climax - all the things you need to tell stories that will capture the imagination of your audience.	104
Eduard Hanslick	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.	104
Elizabeth Drew	The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.	104
Raymond Carver	A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.	104
Ron Johnson	Innovation is this amazing intersection between someone's imagination and the reality in which they live. The problem is, many companies don't have great imagination, but their view of reality tells them that it's impossible to do what they imagine.	104
Ariel Dorfman	We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.	104
Devdutt Pattanaik	Nobody knows why we're alive; so we all create stories based on our imagination of the world; and as a community, we believe in the same story. In India, every person believes his/ her own mythosphere to be real. Indian thought is obsessed with subjectivity; Greek thought with objectivity.	104
James Thomson	But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?	104
Roy Horn	The wonderful thing is, imagination is universal all over the world, no matter what the language is.	104
Amelie Nothomb	I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination. It develops your paranoia. You feel paranoid when you don't understand a country, and being paranoiac is excellent for fiction.	104
Jay S. Walker	Most organizations do not value imagination, do not encourage it, do not reward it. In many cases, they don't even think about it. But if you're not thinking about imagination, I guarantee you're not going to have meaningful innovation.	104
Albert Einstein	The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.	105
Napoleon Hill	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.	105
Stephen Covey	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.	105
Sylvia Plath	And 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.	105
Arnold J. Toynbee	Apathy 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.	105
Billy Collins	I'm trying to write poems that involve beginning at a known place, and ending up at a slightly different place. I'm trying to take a little journey from one place to another, and it's usually from a realistic place, to a place in the imagination.	105
David Bailey	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.	105
Imran Khan	I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.	105
Ivan Krastev	America gave the world the notion of the melting pot - an alchemical cooking device wherein diverse ethnic and religious groups voluntarily mix together, producing a new, American identity. And while critics may argue that the melting pot is a national myth, it has tenaciously informed the America's collective imagination.	105
Marquis de Sade	Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.	105
Nellie Bly	How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination.	105
Simone Weil	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.	105
Eugene H. Peterson	The most important thing a pastor does is stand in a pulpit every Sunday and say, 'Let us worship God.' If that ceases to be the primary thing I do in terms of my energy, my imagination, and the way I structure my life, then I no longer function as a pastor.	105
Gerald Edelman	Science is imagination in the service of the verifiable truth, and that service is indeed communal. It cannot be rigidly planned. Rather, it requires freedom and courage and the plural contributions of many different kinds of people who must maintain their individuality while giving to the group.	105
Laura Hillenbrand	I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically, so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously.	105
Patricia Highsmith	My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.	105
Robert Carlyle	I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.	105
Stacy Schiff	Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss proportions, tactlessness, a high tolerance for archival dust. Most of all it calls for an act of displacement. 'To find your subject, you must in some sense lose yourself along the way,' is Richard Holmes's version.	105
Stephen Lang	In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your skills are what you turn to.	105
Thomas Bailey Aldrich	I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.	105
Trevor Nunn	I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do.	105
Clara Schumann	My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.	105
Eddie Marsan	I see all these people talking about acting as a great spiritual thing. It's not. There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do, but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.	105
Geoffrey S. Fletcher	In these times of stress, snark, division and despair, I still suspect that two of the most important features we possess are imagination and a capacity for goodness. Those are qualities for which we will be remembered most fondly.	105
Hugh Howey	I'd rather excite the imagination of a legion of readers and make pennies from each of them than hold off for a larger chunk of change from only a handful of fans.	105
John Darnielle	Most of my interests in terms of writing are dark, so it's discordant how much I try to lock into the vibe of wherever I'm at. Inhabiting the life of the imagination is the nature of survival strategy - you build yourself little worlds to enjoy.	105
Lisa Gansky	I really like Kickstarter because you don't have to be a Medici to fund the arts and sciences or to get behind a big idea or a person that sparks your imagination. It's a type of microfunding directed toward creators.	105
Maria Callas	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.	105
Edmund Wilson	The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.	105
Gillian Flynn	I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.	105
Janet Frame	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.	105
Jarvis Cocker	Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.	105
Lynn Nottage	I find my characters and stories in many varied places; sometimes they pop out of newspaper articles, obscure historical texts, lively dinner party conversations and some even crawl out of the dusty remote recesses of my imagination.	105
Pola Negri	Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination.	105
Rod Serling	Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.	105
Sugata Mitra	Students are rewarded for memorization, not imagination or resourcefulness.	105
Chris Cooper	I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.	105
Jerzy Kosinski	I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.	105
Joe Dante	'Avatar' is the greatest, most comprehensive collection of movie cliches ever assembled, but it's put together in a brand new way with a new technology, and tremendous imagination, making it a true epic and a kind of a milestone.	105
James F. Cooper	I sometimes wish I had been educated a Catholic, in order to unite the poetry of religion with its higher principles. Are they necessarily inseparable? Is man really so much of a philosopher, that he can conceive of truth in its abstract purity, and divest life and the affections of all the aids of the imagination?	105
Matthew Sweet	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.	105
Rhona Mitra	When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.	105
Ahmet Zappa	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.	105
Michael C. Hall	I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know?	105
Michael O'Brien	Imagination is a screen onto which the evil spirits can 'project' images, temptations presented as stimulating entertainments, offering us pleasurable rewards if we give in to the temptation.	105
Jay S. Walker	If you're a doctor, what do you promise to do? First, do no harm. If your operating philosophy is do no harm, that's not a call to imagination. Not only that, if I'm a patient, I don't want your imagination. I want what works.	105
Michael Pena	A good comic explores the imagination, but it's always got to have those notes of truth running through it.	105
Mark Carwardine	Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.	105
Jean-Jacques Rousseau	The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.	106
Thomas Merton	We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.	106
Alfred A. Montapert	To accomplish great things we must first dream, then visualize, then plan... believe... act!	106
Bennet Omalu	No, no, I don't watch football. The last time I tried watching was the last Super Bowl. The problem I have is, you know, the graphic nature of my imagination; when I watch and see them meeting head onto head, helmet onto helmet, what flashes through my mind is what's going on in their brains. It's like torture to me.	106
Helen Fisher	Games are the way we keep romance alive. They're based in human hardwiring. Playing hard-to-get or leaving a little to the imagination allows the woman to be wooed and appreciated and the man to be challenged and intrigued.	106
Iain Sinclair	With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, the school-lottery migration, the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?	106
Isabelle Fuhrman	I'd love to play more challenging roles, characters that would stretch my comfort zone and imagination.	106
James Russell Lowell	Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.	106
Tim O'Brien	Fantasy has a dark side to it. It also has a light hemisphere - the power of the human imagination to keep going, to imagine a better tomorrow.	106
Vernon Howard	Learn to see things as they really are, not as we imagine they are.	106
William Godwin	There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.	106
Fred G. Gosman	A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.	106
Jason Silva	For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.	106
Steve Vai	Possessing a healthy imagination is a necessary ingredient for creativity.	106
Susan Vreeland	The value of writing about art is its effect on the imagination. Paintings allow us to inhabit another culture, place, and time period, and address the issues of those time periods that resonate with our own time.	106
Ann Wilson	People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.	106
Geoffrey S. Fletcher	If humanity is being swallowed by a modern primitivism, imagination might be the thing that saves us all.	106
Hugo Pratt	For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.	106
Les Baxter	Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.	106
Shekhar Kapur	There's a lot of imagination in Asia, and I believe that the next Google will come from there, and the next Pixar. I believe that the great new media companies will come out of Asia and surpass the big media conglomerates that exist right now in the West.	106
Teena Marie	I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do.	106
Clive Barker	My imagination is my polestar; I steer by that.	106
Edward Rutherfurd	For novelists, the imagination is everything. The trick is to guide one's imagination using research. I love using old maps. When I wrote my novels on London and New York, I found wonderful historical atlases. Paris has the most lavish maps of all.	106
Joseph Franklin Rutherford	Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind.	106
Richard Brinsley Sheridan	He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.	106
Sugata Mitra	Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.	106
Terrence McNally	With me, writing is 60% imagination, 30% people you know and 10% you don't know where it comes from.	106
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison	Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.	106
Brenda Laurel	Reality has always been too small for the human imagination. We're always trying to transcend.	106
Brent Weeks	It's easier for me to write certain character types because of my own life experiences, but I find it too artistically limiting to only write about red-headed kids who grew up in small town Montana. That's really part of the fun of fantasy, I think. Our imagination is basically unlimited. Okay, that's a terrifying thing about fantasy, too.	106
Diana Krall	But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.	106
Michelle Forbes	It's a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people don't like working with children. I actually adore it, because you watch their imagination open up and you watch them start to learn this job that I've been doing for so long. They come with such a lack of cynicism.	106
James Broughton	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.	106
Alexander Cockburn	The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.	106
Jane Badler	I love music because you can create a world through your records. I have total control over what I do and what I wear. It's like my own world out of my imagination rather than someone giving me lines.	106
Jessica Hagedorn	My identity is linked to my grandmother, who's pure Filipino, as pure as you can probably get. And that shaped my imagination. So that's how I identify.	106
Malachy McCourt	Imagination in the child is powerful. Reading and laughter and love are essential in our lives.	106
Jacques Maritain	Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.	106
Mark Twain	You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.	107
Muhammad Ali	The man who has no imagination has no wings.	107
Charles de Gaulle	You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.	107
Edgar Allan Poe	They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.	107
Gloria Steinem	Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.	107
Leonardo da Vinci	Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?	107
Antoine de Saint-Exupery	A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.	107
Michelangelo	I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.	107
Anatole France	To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.	107
Bill Walton	The Grateful Dead, they're my best friends. Their message of hope, peace, love, teamwork, creativity, imagination, celebration, the dance, the vision, the purpose, the passion all of the things I believe in makes me the luckiest Deadhead in the world.	107
Catherine the Great	A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.	107
Edouard Manet	It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.	107
George Henry Lewes	Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.	107
George Lucas	You can't do it unless you can imagine it.	107
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel	Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.	107
Louis Aragon	Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of my ideas, this mania for control, makes men prefer reason's imagination to the imagination of the senses. And yet it is always the imagination alone which is at work.	107
Marquis de Sade	Never lose sight of the fact that all human felicity lies in man's imagination, and that he cannot think to attain it unless he heeds all his caprices. The most fortunate of persons is he who has the most means to satisfy his vagaries.	107
Nadine Gordimer	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.	107
Robert Collier	Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.	107
Sri Chinmoy	Your heart will be shattered by sorrow if you force it to live in tomorrow's ephemeral imagination - world instead of in today's eternal reality - now.	107
Andre Leon Talley	One my favorite things is to go to the provinces of Russia and see the 18th century wood churches with the onion dome architecture. These humble wonders of incredible imagination of architects that were obviously not living in places like Paris or London, but they've created these amazing churches.	107
Antonio Tabucchi	Like a blazing comet, I've traversed infinite nights, interstellar spaces of the imagination, voluptuousness and fear.	107
Claude Bernard	Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.	107
Ella Maillart	One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.	107
Emile Hirsch	On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.	107
Fay Godwin	I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.	107
Gilbert Parker	Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.	107
J. G. Ballard	I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.	107
Leigh Hunt	There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.	107
Luigi Pirandello	Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.	107
Max von Sydow	I admired Stephen Daldry very much; I think he's a brilliant director, and also, I feel close to him because he has a lot of theater behind him. He's also a man of great imagination and a lovely sense of humor.	107
Tony DiTerlizzi	I loved stories as a kid, both being read to me and enjoying on my own. All these stories inspired my imagination, and that's what I have always aimed at doing for my readers: ignite their imaginations.	107
William Irwin Thompson	The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.	107
Patrick Kavanagh	Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.	107
Richard Lugar	Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.	107
Colin Morgan	When I think of Camelot, I think of the castle in France where we film, but I think it's wrong to lock it down to one place because it's all part of our imagination. They are legends for a reason. Their stories have endured for hundreds of years and, hopefully, they will for hundreds of years to come.	107
Renny Harlin	You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.	107
Rob Walton	I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.	107
Alessandro Nivola	I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.	107
Amy Waldman	Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.	107
Christopher Koch	Writers to some extent are childish, and it's at the childish level that one really engages with any experience. What really moves you is at the very personal, childish level of the imagination. My business is the imagination, and my imagination is engaged by Asia.	107
Juno Temple	I was brought up in a very open, rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your lights went out, you were lit by candlelight for a good four days before they can get to you. And so, my imagination was crazy.	107
Jean-Claude Duvalier	I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?	107
Dr. Seuss	I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.	108
Walt Disney	I only hope that we don't lose sight of one thing - that it was all started by a mouse.	108
Ada Lovelace	I find that nothing but very close and intense application to subjects of a scientific nature now seems at all to keep my imagination from running wild, or to stop up the void which seems to be left in my mind from a want of excitement.	108
Anne Sullivan	We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.	108
Dave Attell	I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.	108
Dawn French	I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct, raw invitation for the reader to come in and explore my imagination is fairly scary for me so I have busied myself with so much else.	108
Henning Mankell	I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world, when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared, and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best.	108
James A. Michener	The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.	108
Kathryn Lasky	I have always been fascinated by paleontology and prehistoric people, and I've always thought that one of the most intriguing moments in human history was the birth of artistic imagination. I always loved those cave paintings.	108
Lauren Bacall	Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.	108
Lawrence M. Krauss	The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more interesting than any of the fairy tales we have invented to describe it.	108
Milan Kundera	There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, for someone, pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echos.	108
Olivier Martinez	Imagination creates some big monsters.	108
Q-Tip	Predating the Internet and predating videos, you had an active imagination. You would hear sounds and then get mental pictures of what these sounds felt like to you. It engaged you and made you more invested in it. It made you want to get tickets to the show, buy the album, put the poster on the wall. Now it's sensory overload.	108
Tyler, The Creator	I'm an optimistic guy. I'm one of those big dreamers. I'm one of those kids with that annoying imagination.	108
Christopher Fry	Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.	108
Julian Assange	I saw that publishing all over the world was deeply constrained by self-censorship, economics and political censorship, while the military-industrial complex was growing at a tremendous rate, and the amount of information that it was collecting about all of us vastly exceeded the public imagination.	108
Laura Marano	What better way to expand your imagination than to read!	108
Michael D. Higgins	I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.	108
Ranbir Kapoor	I want to reach the heights of stardom beyond my imagination.	108
Stephen Lang	On some level, acting is the art of pretend, and you have to have a highly cultivated sense of imagination. You have to be able to see things that aren't there, no matter what aspect of acting, whether it's green screen, whether it's on stage, whether it's anything else, whether you're working on the radio.	108
Thomas Kinkade	The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.	108
William Irwin Thompson	Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.	108
Cullen Hightower	We may not imagine how our lives could be more frustrating and complex - but Congress can.	108
Dougray Scott	You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies; we do.	108
Ellen Terry	Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.	108
Joshua Foer	Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind's eye. That's an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition.	108
Karl Philipp Moritz	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.	108
Katherine Paterson	The problem with people who are afraid of imagination, of fantasy, is that their world becomes so narrow that I don't see how they can imagine beyond what their senses can verify. We know from science that there are entire worlds that our senses can't verify.	108
Luis Bunuel	Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.	108
Arthur Keith	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.	108
Bill Moyers	War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.	108
James Buchan	In rising financial markets, the world is forever new. The bull or optimist has no eyes for past or present, but only for the future, where streams of revenue play in his imagination.	108
Larry McMurtry	You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.	108
Ronald Frame	The gift of a writer as good as Dickens is not to explain everything; that way, the reader has, in terms of their imagination, somewhere to go.	108
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison	Kindness and intelligence don't always deliver us from the pitfalls and traps: there are always failures of love, of will, of imagination. There is no way to take the danger out of human relationships.	108
Brenda Laurel	I learned in the computer game business early on that all senses are not equal. The best example is, you're listening to a radio play and you're driving down the road, and suddenly you realize you haven't seen the road in five minutes. It's because your visual cortex has been partying with your imagination, basically.	108
Christopher Paolini	The advantage of writing from experience is that it often provides you with details that you would never think of yourself, no matter how rich your imagination. And specificity in description is something every writer should strive for.	108
Diana Krall	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.	108
Jack Youngblood	I visualize things in my mind before I have to do them. It's like having a mental workshop.	108
Mary McCarthy	I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.	108
Robert Creeley	Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!	108
Shane Claiborne	We need to be politically engaged, but peculiar in how we engage. Jesus and the early Christians had a marvelous political imagination. They turned all the presumptions and ideas of power and blessing upside down.	108
Mark Sheppard	It's the imagination that is involved in sci-fi, and fantasy is what draws me to it. Stories, everything.	108
John Desmond Bernal	The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.	108
Napoleon Bonaparte	Imagination rules the world.	109
Ray Bradbury	When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents' boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing 'Amazing Stories,' with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination.	109
William Arthur Ward	If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.	109
Vladimir Nabokov	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.	109
Ben Okri	When you can imagine you begin to create and when you begin to create you realize that you can create a world that you prefer to live in, rather than a world that you're suffering in.	109
Daniel J. Boorstin	The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life.	109
Edgar Degas	It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.	109
Geoffrey Chaucer	People can die of mere imagination.	109
George Berkeley	That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.	109
George Edward Woodberry	Much of a poet's experience takes place in imagination only; the life he tells is oftenest the life that he strongly desires to live, and the power, the purity and height of his utterance may not seldom be the greater because experience here uses the voices of desire.	109
Havelock Ellis	Man lives by imagination.	109
Marquis de Sade	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?	109
Mike Krzyzewski	Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.	109
Olivier Martinez	It's not only imagination, it's the distortion of the vision. You suddenly think, This person is idealistic, this person is strong, this person has dreams, when you know better most of the time. You put what you want to see on people.	109
Phylicia Rashad	What's in front of you is a whole world of experiences beyond your imagination. Put yourself, and your growth and development, first.	109
William Morris	A man at work, making something which he feels will exist because he is working at it and wills it, is exercising the energies of his mind and soul as well as of his body. Memory and imagination help him as he works.	109
Austin O'Malley	Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.	109
Claudia Rankine	The American imagination has never been able to fully recover from its white-supremacist beginnings.	109
Dweezil Zappa	I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements.	109
Guy Davenport	Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.	109
James Altucher	Don't stay at the job for safe salary increases over time. That will never get you where you want - freedom from financial worry. Only free time, imagination, creativity, and an ability to disappear will help you deliver value that nobody ever delivered before in the history of mankind.	109
Matthew Bourne	People know that they're going to see something which is entertaining but challenging as well because of the form it's in. It's dance theatre and it requires you to use your imagination - it's not straight forward.	109
Tristram Stuart	I simply believe food is too good to throw away - and Christmas leftovers can be a gastronomic opportunity for the well-skilled kitchen forager. With a little imagination, there are a million ways to use up leftovers rather than bin them.	109
Andre Dubus III	My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.	109
Bharati Mukherjee	As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.	109
Ken Adam	The cinema is there to heighten the imagination; I have always tried to make sure it does so.	109
Clive Barker	I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important as a maker of fantasy and of horror.	109
Ronnie James Dio	Lyrically 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.	109
Dan Rosensweig	The history of Guitar Hero is pretty spectacular. Really, I don't know of another franchise that has captured the imagination of the world so quickly and so powerfully and so positively in such a short period of time.	109
David Baldacci	I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.	109
Richard Paul Evans	I suppose I have an active imagination, and writing allows me to live it out.	109
Jack Prelutsky	Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.	109
Walt Disney	When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.	110
Alan Watts	The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.	110
Steven Spielberg	You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we can't even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know.	110
Andrew Wyeth	I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free.	110
Damien Hirst	It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.	110
Florence Welch	It would be too frightening for me to consider myself a role model. But I like the idea of not being afraid of letting your imagination rule you, to feel the freedom of expression, to let creativity be your overwhelming drive rather than other things.	110
George Matthew Adams	It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.	110
George Packer	Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular songs, putting a grimy human face on capitalism while dramatizing the social changes and conflicts it brought.	110
Ian Mcewan	True intelligence requires fabulous imagination.	110
Russell Simmons	Respect your parents. What they tell you is true. Hard work, dedication and faith will get you anything. Imagination will drive itself. You can get anything you want, but you have to have faith behind all your ideas. Stick to your goals and have an undying faith.	110
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	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.	110
Seamus Heaney	The faking of feelings is a sin against the imagination.	110
Stella Adler	One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.	110
Thom Yorke	I think artists can influence only through making music that challenges people, excites them and flips them out. Music that repeats what you know in ever-decreasing derivation, that's unchallenging and unstimulating, deadens our minds, our imagination and our ability to see beyond the hell we find ourselves in.	110
Vladimir Kramnik	The development of beauty in chess never depends on you alone. No matter how much imagination and creativity you invest, you still do not create beauty. Your opponent must react at the same highest level.	110
W. Somerset Maugham	Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.	110
Alex Turner	I think New York is a good place to write in general because it's a grid. It's organized. You know where you are on the map. That centers you, and your imagination is perhaps freer to roam.	110
Dorothea Brande	By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.	110
Duane Michals	I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.	110
Gary Ross	Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean.	110
George William Curtis	Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!	110
Lee Smith	Certainly I was a very religious child, a deeply weird and very emotional child, an only child with lots of imaginary friends and a very active imagination. I loved Sunday school and Bible camp and all that. I had my own white Bible with Jesus' words printed in red in the text; I even spoke at youth revivals.	110
Nolan North	The really best acting is children in a playground or in a backyard. They're just lost in their imagination. The backyard isn't a pirate ship or a jungle, in the same way that the soundstage isn't Shambala.	110
Ben Lovett	I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite funny. I think British acts might like to leave more to the imagination - maybe a bit more obscure perhaps - a bit more shy.	110
Gilbert Murray	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.	110
Jean Giraudoux	There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.	110
Jerry Spinelli	Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.	110
Margaret Mahy	They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.	110
Michael Moriarty	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.	110
Michael Tippett	My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical.	110
Martha Gellhorn	It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.	110
Stephen LaBerge	Some people have vivid imagination, some not so vivid, but everybody has vivid dreams.	110
e. e. cummings	Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.	111
Pablo Picasso	Everything you can imagine is real.	111
Vincent Van Gogh	Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.	111
Percy Bysshe Shelley	A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.	111
Andrew Wyeth	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.	111
Eartha Kitt	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.	111
James Dean	Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all you have.	111
Olivia De Havilland	I don't need a fantasy life as once I did. That is the life of the imagination that I had a great need for. Films were the perfect means for satisfying that need.	111
Paul Gauguin	It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object; beware of this stumbling block.	111
Robert Delaunay	Vision is the true creative rhythm.	111
Alex Cox	The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.	111
Anthony Browne	Inspiring passion in children for books, and the world of imagination and creativity fuelled by them, is a fundamental reason for why the Children's Laureate post exists.	111
Brian K. Vaughan	That was the appealing thing about comics: There literally is no budget in comics. You're only limited by your imagination.	111
Calvin Trillin	I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.	111
Cynthia Ozick	To say that such-and-such a circumstance is 'Kafkaesque' is to admit to the denigration of an imagination that has burned a hole in what we take to be modernism - even in what we take to be the ordinary fabric and intent of language. Nothing is like 'The Hunger Artist.' Nothing is like 'The Metamorphosis.'	111
David Korten	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.	111
Elizabeth Bowen	One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.	111
Franklin Pierce Adams	Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute.	111
Georg Brandes	Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.	111
Hayley Atwell	From a very young age, stories fuelled my imagination in the most wonderful way.	111
Peter Ackroyd	I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the spiritual as well as the material. I have always been attracted to the Gothic and spiritual imagination, and I've always been interested in visionaries.	111
Sam Shepard	On stage, you're not limited at all because you're free in language: language is the source of the imagination. You can travel farther in language than you can in any film.	111
Bonnie Jo Campbell	I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?	111
Derek Jacobi	I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.	111
Graham Joyce	Every day the eye is subject to a thousand tiny shocks as a thousand industries compete for the eye-kick, the visual hook that will lock the consumer into product for that crucial second where the tiny - or not so tiny - leap of the imagination is made.	111
Judy Blume	Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.	111
Samantha Shannon	I was a shy child, and when I was 13, I started wearing braces on my teeth. I used to be acutely self-conscious, and I think writing was a way of withdrawing into my own imagination.	111
Thomas Heatherwick	As a teenager, my father took me to the shows at the Architectural Association and to places like Milton Keynes back when it was first being built. But I couldn't find anything for me. There seemed to be despair at the possibility of the built environment possessing any imagination in the real world.	111
James Anthony Froude	A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.	111
Dr. Seuss	Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!	112
David Hume	Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.	112
Frank Lloyd Wright	An idea is salvation by imagination.	112
B. R. Ambedkar	Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.	112
Berkeley Breathed	I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.	112
Bobby Seale	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.	112
Edith Wharton	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.	112
Gloria Vanderbilt	All art, from the paintings on the walls of cave dwellers to art created today, is autobiographical because it comes from the secret place in the soul where imagination resides.	112
Ishmael Beah	I grew up in Sierra Leone, in a small village where as a boy my imagination was sparked by the oral tradition of storytelling. At a very young age I learned the importance of telling stories - I saw that stories are the most potent way of seeing anything we encounter in our lives, and how we can deal with living.	112
Lawrence Durrell	I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.	112
Rachel Zoe	I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful.	112
Darell Hammond	In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore - in short, to play.	112
Javier Bardem	I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.	112
Tatiana Maslany	I'm attracted to stories that excite my imagination, stories that, as I'm reading the script, I feel it, I can see it, I can hear the characters. I'm attracted to characters that are real, that tap into something inside me that I haven't explored yet.	112
Tim Robbins	Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.	112
Derek Jacobi	Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.	112
Mary Wesley	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.	112
Ronald Frame	A writer's life suits me. It's fairly, well, other people might think it was actually rather dull, but that's fine because I feel that my imagination is enough to kind of keep me happy.	112
Jesse Williams	Storybooks were always a big part of my imagination, and my childhood and adolescence.	112
Julianna Baggott	What does it mean to be Catholic and not a Catholic? I feel adrift, homeless. My Catholic imagination allows me to see the soul as a lit breath, seeking the divine. It persists.	112
Henri Bergson	You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.	113
Ice T	Some music comes from a real place; some music comes from your imagination. It's difficult to find out what's real and what's not, especially with the gangster stuff.	113
John Henrik Clarke	My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.	113
Kevin Smith	You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people willing to turn in some work next to nothing, you going to have a feature. But you can't get beyond how expensive marketing the movie is, it's so crushing.	113
Lawrence M. Krauss	Feynman once said, 'Science is imagination in a straitjacket.' It is ironic that in the case of quantum mechanics, the people without the straitjackets are generally the nuts.	113
Maimonides	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.	113
Nathan Lane	It's certainly not a shock to find that the industry has no imagination. I think people don't know what it is I do. Because half the time you're talking to people who are in their 20s, and I've been doing this for over 25 years.	113
Oren Peli	In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.	113
Phylicia Rashad	Let me just say that to imagine racism does not exist is imagination. And to imagine that it does not create its own set of problems is true imagination. So let's not imagine that racism is gone, extinguished, because it's not. We are seeing this in the top levels of the political arena, and we are seeing it very, very plainly.	113
Steve Wozniak	The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.	113
Vivien Leigh	Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.	113
Drew Gilpin Faust	The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. A liberal arts education is designed to equip students for just such flexibility and imagination.	113
Emma Caulfield	I definitely gravitate towards quality genre projects and genre of any kind whether it's science fiction, horror or really anything. I'm just drawn to quality. I don't think 'Darkness Falls' is horror; there isn't any gore by any stretch of the imagination.	113
Terry Brooks	We forget that what matters begins with the imagination.	113
Evelyn Underhill	Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.	113
Jill Lepore	The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesn't enter into it.	113
Katherine Paterson	Reading asks that you bring your whole life experience and your ability to decode the written word and your creative imagination to the page and be a co-author with the writer, because the story is just squiggles on the page unless you have a reader.	113
Sheherazade Goldsmith	Reducing and reusing take nothing more than a rethink on the way we shop, and using our imagination with the things that we might once have considered junk.	113
Armie Hammer	There are two 'Snow White' movies coming out for the same reason that you remember back in the day there was 'Armageddon' and then 'Deep Impact.' You know, 'Andromeda Strain' and then 'Outbreak.' Like, all of those things. It's common because basically studios have no imagination in making the decisions.	113
Adrianne Palicki	My favorite action movie growing up was 'Supergirl.' It wasn't good by any stretch of the imagination, but it was my favorite because I wanted to be her. I have a Supergirl tattoo.	113
John Cassavetes	The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imagination.	113
James Welch	Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana.	113
Walt Disney	Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.	114
Jimi Hendrix	Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.	114
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie	I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most tell me are 'unbelievable' are those that are most closely based on the real, those least diluted by my imagination.	114
Florence Welch	I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.	114
Georg C. Lichtenberg	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.	114
Henry James	The face of nature and civilization in this our country is to a certain point a very sufficient literary field. But it will yield its secrets only to a really grasping imagination. To write well and worthily of American things one need even more than elsewhere to be a master.	114
Joseph Joubert	Imagination is the eye of the soul.	114
Olivier Martinez	Love is based on imagination.	114
Ruby Rose	Gender fluidity is not really feeling like you're at one end of the spectrum or the other. For the most part, I definitely don't identify as any gender. I'm not a guy; I don't really feel like a woman, but obviously I was born one. So, I'm somewhere in the middle, which - in my perfect imagination - is like having the best of both sexes.	114
Wallace Stevens	To 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.	114
Annie Dillard	Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.	114
Carol Ann Duffy	The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.	114
James Cameron	Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.	114
Jerry Saltz	Abstraction is one of the greatest visionary tools ever invented by human beings to imagine, decipher, and depict the world.	114
Michael Haneke	To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.	114
Rita Dove	You have to imagine it possible before you can see something. You can have the evidence right in front of you, but if you can't imagine something that has never existed before, it's impossible.	114
Stephen Lang	Your primary tools, as an actor, are observation and imagination. You can pretty much get everything you need from that, and you do. It brings back that element of pretend.	114
Sufjan Stevens	I feel like the Internet needs to be disarmed in some way. There needs to be a philosophical undermining of the Internet. We take it too seriously and too literally. For a reference we go to Wikipedia, which is full of inaccuracies and misinformation. It's kind of beautiful - it's all the product of imagination; it's not reality at all.	114
Caity Lotz	I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals of anything like that; my imagination just takes over!	114
Alan Lightman	Novels aren't pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline. A novel has to be an emotional experience, a trip of the imagination, and because science has raised so many issues that concern and affect humans, it's a good starting place for me.	114
Jessica Hagedorn	We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.	114
John Keats	I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.	115
Florence Welch	I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.	115
Keith Haring	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.	115
Olivia Thirlby	When we were filming 'The Darkest Hour,' we didn't even know what the aliens were going to look like, we didn't even have a graphic reference. So it was definitely a big challenge to sell those kind of extreme moments when you're just generating them from your own imagination.	115
Unknown	True change takes place in the imagination.	115
Brian Cox	Charles Laughton, who's a great hero of mine, only ever made one film and it happens to be one of the great films ever, which is 'The Night of the Hunter.' It's full of his kind of imagination and creation and how you do things and just in the way he used the studio, I just thought it was a fantastical way of using the studio.	115
Donald Sutherland	To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.	115
George William Russell	We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.	115
Glen Hansard	Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.	115
Henry Williamson	Authors are ordinary people who usually start to live apart, in the imagination, because they don't fit in with normal, healthy people.	115
Peter Mullan	You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.	115
R. D. Laing	Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.	115
Tim Curry	I still find it quite easy to find my way into a child's imagination. We're all Peter Pan ourselves in some respects. Everybody should keep some grip on childhood, even as a grownup.	115
Amanda Lindhout	The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination - what do you dream of wanting to do?	115
Maria Mitchell	We especially need imagination in science.	115
Richard Powers	The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.	115
Amy Waldman	I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.	115
Jay McInerney	Mine is not an autonomous imagination.	115
H. L. Mencken	Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.	116
Anais Nin	There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.	116
e. e. cummings	I imagine that yes is the only living thing.	116
Pablo Picasso	I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.	116
Aesop	The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.	116
Alfred Nobel	Justice is to be found only in imagination.	116
Christian Nestell Bovee	Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination.	116
Edward Abbey	Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.	116
Edward Hopper	No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.	116
Judy Garland	We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.	116
Ken Robinson	Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.	116
Milan Kundera	You can understand nothing about art, particularly modern art, if you do not understand that imagination is a value in itself.	116
Nassim Nicholas Taleb	We humans lack imagination, to the point of not even knowing what tomorrow's important things will look like.	116
Richard Eyre	A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.	116
Sydney J. Harris	Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity; yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.	116
Ursula K. Le Guin	I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.	116
Wallace Stevens	We say God and the imagination are one... How high that highest candle lights the dark.	116
Washington Irving	He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.	116
Colum McCann	Very seldom in my fiction have I directly used the stories people have told me. I think ripping off people's lives in fiction is dangerous. It also lacks imagination.	116
John Irving	I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination.	116
Rick Perlstein	In Ronald Reagan's chaotic childhood, the imagination was armor. There is nothing unusual about that; transcending the doubts, hesitations, and fears swirling around you by casting yourself internally as the hero of your own adventure story is a characteristic psychic defense mechanism of the Boy Who Disappears.	116
Ron Perlman	Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees.	116
Sean Parker	I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.	116
Dries van Noten	Sometimes, to stimulate your imagination you have to be careful you don't have too much information. You can Google something, and it's in your face, pow! You don't have time to dream any more about it.	116
LeVar Burton	It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.	116
Andy Behrman	My manic depression was ravaging my life, but because nobody could see it, many people thought it was a figment of my imagination.	116
Jacob Bronowski	We 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.	116
Norman Vincent Peale	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.	117
Salvador Dali	Those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.	117
Neil Gaiman	The imagination is a muscle. If it is not exercised, it atrophies.	117
Charlotte Perkins Gilman	Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.	117
John Burroughs	To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.	117
Kevin McCloud	There's no reason for your imagination to be fettered by money.	117
Nathan Fillion	I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.	117
Sean Hannity	My life has been a gift up to this point, and I've been blessed beyond my wildest imagination. And wherever this ride takes me is where I'm going.	117
Jessamyn West	Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.	117
Junot Diaz	'A Princess of Mars' may not have exerted the same colossal pull that Tarzan had on the global imagination, but its influence on generations of readers cannot be underestimated.	117
Sam Taylor-Wood	I understand what it is to go through emotional trauma and retreat and go into the world of your imagination. I understand how art and music can be a place of safety in a world of reinvention.	117
Susan Sarandon	I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.	117
Dennis Hastert	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.	117
Katherine Paterson	If you're so afraid of your imagination that you stifle it, how are you going to know God? How can you imagine heaven?	117
Steve Lacy	I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.	117
Dido Armstrong	I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.	117
Deepak Chopra	Karma is experience, and experience creates memory, and memory creates imagination and desire, and desire creates karma again. If I buy a cup of coffee, that's karma. I now have that memory that might give me the potential desire for having cappuccino, and I walk into Starbucks, and there's karma all over again.	118
Henry Ford	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.	118
John Lennon	Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.	118
John Keats	My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.	118
Barbara Kingsolver	You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.	118
Imogen Poots	'Fright Night' I can just about deal with. Because the original is such a 1980s extravaganza. Which is a good thing. Obviously. But something like 'The Others' or anything psychological: I'm no good with that. I don't like it when there's space for me to use my imagination.	118
Tom Robbins	The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through the heart of imagination. If they really understood the mysterious process of creating fiction, they would say, 'You can write about anything you can imagine.'	118
Ursula K. Le Guin	It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope.	118
George Meredith	The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.	118
Peter Ackroyd	London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.	118
William C. Bryant	Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.	118
Maria Mitchell	We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.	118
Matthew Ashford	I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show.	118
Ralph Waldo Emerson	Science does not know its debt to imagination.	119
Elie Wiesel	Some stories are true that never happened.	119
Alice Walker	I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.	119
Bill Hicks	Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.	119
Maxwell Maltz	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.	119
Robertson Davies	I do not 'get' ideas; ideas get me.	119
Salman Rushdie	I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.	119
Zooey Deschanel	I grew up believing my sister was from the planet Neptune and had been sent down to Earth to kill me. I believed this because my sister Emily convinced me of it when I was a toddler. I think she'd seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers and her imagination ran away with her. There's a part of me that still believes it.	119
Siri Hustvedt	As one of four daughters, I grew up with an imaginary brother - wondering what it would have been like if one of us had been a boy. There's no question that there was a phantom boy child in my imagination when I was young.	119
Suzi Quatro	I may have been sexy, but I was covered up total. There was something left to the imagination.	119
Aaron Koblin	I've always been interested in technology, but specifically how we can use machines to engage the imagination. I started using computers when I was young and was fascinated by creating rules and instructions that allow a computer to engage in a dialogue with humans. The stories found in the data all around us can do just that.	119
Emmy Rossum	I hope that I'm sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now. I think a lot of girls in the public eye, especially musical artists, are just kind of objectified a little bit and wearing super-skimpy outfits and leaving nothing to the imagination.	119
Lionel Trilling	There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.	119
Bob Kane	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.	119
Jane Campion	I can get very philosophical and ask the questions Keats was asking as a young guy. What are we here for? What's a soul? What's it all about? What is thinking about, imagination?	119
J. K. Rowling	However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.	120
Norman Vincent Peale	Imagination is the true magic carpet.	120
Frank Abagnale	My proudest moment was probably when my oldest boy finished law school and went on to become an FBI agent. It was just beyond my imagination that - with my background - my own son would become an FBI agent.	120
Isaac D'Israeli	To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.	120
Quincy Jones	Imagine what a harmonious world it could be if every single person, both young and old shared a little of what he is good at doing.	120
Ursula K. Le Guin	As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.	120
Alexander McCall Smith	It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.	120
Amy Sedaris	I like crafts that come out of poverty or necessity. There used to be hobby shops where you'd get your supplies, and then you'd use your imagination.	120
Beverly Cleary	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.	120
John O'Donohue	A lot of suffering is just getting rid of dross in yourself, and lingering and hanging in the darkness is often - I say this against myself - a failure of imagination, to imagine the door into the light.	120
Thomas Kinkade	I love audio books, and when I paint I'm always listening to a book. I find that my imagination really takes flight in the painting process when I'm listening to audio books.	120
Jean Giraudoux	A stock certificate is not a tool, like a shovel, or a commodity, like a pound of cheese. What we sell a customer is not a share in a business, but a view of the Elysian Fields. A financier is a creative artist. Our function is to stimulate the imagination. We are poets!	120
Janelle Monae	I believe that imagination inspires nations. It's something that I live by.	120
Albert Einstein	Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.	121
C. S. Lewis	Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.	121
Edgar Allan Poe	The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.	121
Jane Austen	A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.	121
Brian Tracy	All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose.	121
Charles M. Schwab	A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.	121
Chiang Kai-shek	As a boy, the very words 'Liberty Bell' and 'Independence Hall' fired my imagination and made a profound and lasting impression on my mind. Throughout my struggle to secure national freedom for China, I have continuously dreamed of the day when she would assume the full stature of an independent, democratic nation.	121
Claire Danes	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.	121
Elizabeth Wurtzel	My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.	121
Ian Frazier	Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.	121
Jason Statham	If you got a good imagination, a lot of confidence and you kind of know what you are saying, then you might be able to do it. I know a lot of colorful characters at home that would make great actors.	121
Joseph Addison	Everything 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.	121
Joseph Joubert	He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.	121
Lawrence Durrell	For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.	121
Marquis de Sade	Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.	121
Nicolas Cage	Actors, their greatest tool, their greatest resource is imagination. You can take things, power objects, you can recruit your dreams, you can access your memories and get there. So the idea is not to act but to just be.	121
Sam Levenson	One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination.	121
Wallace Stevens	The imagination is man's power over nature.	121
Charles Horton Cooley	If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.	121
J. G. Ballard	I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.	121
Kevin J. Anderson	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.	121
Gary Busey	I'll tell you this: You have to remember to chase and catch your dreams, because if you don't, your imagination will live in empty spaces, and that's nowhere land.	122
John Updike	Mars has long exerted a pull on the human imagination. The erratically moving red star in the sky was seen as sinister or violent by the ancients: The Greeks identified it with Ares, the god of war; the Babylonians named it after Nergal, god of the underworld. To the ancient Chinese, it was Ying-huo, the fire planet.	122
Joseph Joubert	One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.	122
Lily Tomlin	Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.	122
Niecy Nash	As a little girl, my destiny was stamped onto the canvas of my imagination at 5 years old. I was watching soaps with my grandmother... The most gorgeous black women I had ever seen in my life came out, and I knew that that is what I wanted to do - be fabulous and black and on TV.	122
Paloma Faith	Sometimes when you've got too much money you lose your imagination.	122
Shigeru Miyamoto	I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.	122
Stephen Sondheim	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.	122
Carlos Fuentes	I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination.	122
John le Carre	Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.	122
Sebastian Coe	I started track and field when I was 12 and didn't get to an Olympic Games until I was nearly 23. By any stretch of the imagination that's a very long apprenticeship.	122
Sonam Kapoor	I didn't like Barbie dolls, so I used to have this overactive imagination, and I used to pretend to be all these different things. My weird childhood fetishes seem to have come to life now as an actor.	122
Mo Rocca	A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.	122
Adam Smith	This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.	123
John Adams	Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.	123
Helen Rowland	The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.	123
Mike Krzyzewski	I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one.	123
Shawn Mendes	Growing up in a suburban home, the world seems so massive to you. It seems like cities are so big and so far away, and there's so much in them. So your imagination runs wild, instead of when you are born in the middle of Manhattan, you'd know, like, that this is the biggest city.	123
Stephen Leacock	Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.	123
Ursula K. Le Guin	My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world, and exiles me from it.	123
George Jean Nathan	To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.	124
Gloria Vanderbilt	A work of fiction is conceived very much the same way as a dream occurs in the mind of a sleeper. But a lot of it is imagination. It's not based on real people.	124
Helen Rowland	Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.	124
Laura Linney	I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.	124
Ramana Maharshi	For those who have obtained unobstructed knowledge of Self, the world is seen merely as a bondage causing imagination.	124
Robin Wright	It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.	124
Bela Lugosi	If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.	124
Julia Glass	To me, stretching the capabilities of my imagination is a crucial aspect of writing fiction; you could think of it as a mental form of athleticism.	124
Blaise Pascal	Imagination decides everything.	125
John Adams	My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.	125
Al Gore	Our world faces a true planetary emergency. I know the phrase sounds shrill, and I know it's a challenge to the moral imagination.	125
Gretchen Rubin	People are powerfully moved by imagination, belief, and knowledge. They can consider the past and future. They can make changes in their behavior out of reason in a way that animals can't do.	125
Karl Kraus	If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.	125
Paloma Faith	I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.	125
Vince Vaughn	My approach as an actor has always been the same, in that the greatest gift that you're ever going to have is your imagination because you're not going to have all life experiences. So you draw on things that are sort of close to it but you spend your time expanding on it or drawing something specific on whatever your situation is.	125
Daphne Guinness	I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.	125
Michael Ignatieff	If the history of the western moral imagination is the story of an enduring and unending revolt against human cruelty, there are few more consequential figures than Raphael Lemkin - and few whose achievements have been more ignored by the general public. It was he who coined the word 'genocide.' He was also its victim.	125
S. E. Hinton	I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.	125
Jane Campion	I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.	125
Taylor Swift	My imagination is a twisted place.	126
Sylvia Plath	I have a visual imagination.	126
Alfred North Whitehead	Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.	126
Anne Sullivan	No matter how mistaken Communist ideas may be, the experience and knowledge gained by trying them out have given a tremendous impetus to thought and imagination.	126
Bodhidharma	People who don't see their nature and imagine they can practice thoughtlessness all the time are lairs and fools.	126
Shia LaBeouf	What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.	126
Tom Robbins	People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.	126
Anne Graham Lotz	My hope is that this life is not all there is. This life is like preparation for what is coming next, and what is coming next is something so glorious that the Bible says minds can't conceive it, eye has never seen, your imagination could never even enter into all that God is preparing for those who love him.	126
John Cameron	Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.	126
Edgar Allan Poe	All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.	201
Epictetus	Imagine for yourself a character, a model personality, whose example you determine to follow, in private as well as in public.	201
Bill Hicks	There is no such thing as death; life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.	201
Claire Danes	I've always had a really active imagination. Lots of kids have imaginary friends. Mine just took on a rather demonic form.	201
Kate Bush	I had an incredibly full life with my imagination: I used to have all sorts of trolls and things; I had a wonderful world around my toys and invented people. I don't mean I had imaginary friends; I just had this big imagination thing going on. I didn't need any imaginary friends, because I had so much other stuff going on.	201
Kevin Spacey	While the sciences are hugely important, let us not leave behind a child's imagination.	201
Mark Ruffalo	I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination.	201
Zygmunt Bauman	I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.	201
Kate Atkinson	Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.	201
Julianna Baggott	Our imaginations are strong as children. Sometimes they get shoved aside, these imaginations. They get dusty and mildewed with age. The imagination is a muscle that has to be put to use or it shrivels.	201
William Blake	Imagination is the real and eternal world of which this vegetable universe is but a faint shadow.	202
Jean Piaget	The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.	202
Ai Weiwei	The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.	202
H. G. Wells	I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.	202
Marjane Satrapi	Cinema is a world of imagination.	202
Nathan Fillion	'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.	202
Paul Farmer	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.	202
William Godwin	There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness.	202
Carlos Fuentes	I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.	202
Billy Connolly	I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.	203
Malcolm Gladwell	The visionary starts with a clean sheet of paper, and re-imagines the world.	203
Peter Jackson	No film has captivated my imagination more than 'King Kong.' I'm making movies today because I saw this film when I was 9 years old.	203
Tom Waits	Mostly, I straddle reality and the imagination. My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.	203
Eric Alterman	Three centuries after the appearance of Franklin's 'Courant', it no longer requires a dystopic imagination to wonder who will have the dubious distinction of publishing America's last genuine newspaper. Few believe that newspapers in their current printed form will survive.	203
Manuel Puig	For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.	203
Thomas A. Edison	To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.	204
Tony Robbins	The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.	204
Alejandro Jodorowsky	When I was a young person I went to the university and I learned a rational language, to think with the left side of the brain. But in the right side of the brain you have intuition and imagination. Words are not the truth; they indicate the way to go, but you need to go alone, in silence. Symbols have a language that kills the words.	204
Gabriel Garcia Marquez	It always amuses me that the biggest praise for my work comes for the imagination, while the truth is that there's not a single line in all my work that does not have a basis in reality. The problem is that Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.	204
Janet Jackson	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.	204
Michael Leunig	The human relationship to combustion is as mysterious as it is fraught with madness. From the candle flame to the nuclear blast, it has lit up the human imagination with fear and fascination.	204
Janice Dickinson	I have a very vivid imagination.	204
Paul Davies	Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be worthy and attainable, but it fails to capture the public's imagination. What does get people excited is the prospect of a mission to Mars.	205
Alex Gibney	There's something magical about a home run. It almost violates the space of the stadium. It's a game of the imagination in some ways. Baseball.	205
Oscar Wilde	Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination.	206
Baruch Spinoza	I would warn you that I do not attribute to nature either beauty or deformity, order or confusion. Only in relation to our imagination can things be called beautiful or ugly, well-ordered or confused.	206
Francis Bacon	Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.	206
Thomas A. Edison	Great ideas originate in the muscles.	206
Ben Okri	The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.	206
Charles Kettering	The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.	206
Francis Ford Coppola	It takes no imagination to live within your means.	206
Orison Swett Marden	All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.	206
Barbara Corcoran	My greatest strength as a child, I realize now, was my imagination. While every other kid was reading and writing, I had seven whole hours a day to practice my imagination. When do you get that space in your life, ever?	206
Danny Boyle	Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.	206
John le Carre	Like every novelist, I fantasise about film. Novelists are not equipped to make a movie, in my opinion. They make their own movie when they write: they're casting, they're dressing the scene, they're working out where the energy of the scene is coming from, and they're also relying tremendously on the creative imagination of the reader.	206
Immanuel Kant	Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.	207
Ray Bradbury	Collecting facts is important. Knowledge is important. But if you don't have an imagination to use the knowledge, civilization is nowhere.	207
William Blake	What is now proved was once only imagined.	207
Vladimir Nabokov	A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.	207
Haruki Murakami	I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.	207
Van Morrison	The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport.	207
Vanessa Hudgens	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.	207
J. C. Watts	In my wildest imagination, I never thought that the fifth of six children born to Helen and Buddy Watts - in a poor black neighborhood, in the poor rural community of Eufaula, Oklahoma - would someday be called Congressman.	207
Thomas A. Edison	To have a great idea, have a lot of them.	208
Wayne Dyer	Begin noticing and being careful about keeping your imagination free of thoughts that you do not wish to materialize. Instead, initiate a practice of filling your creative thoughts to overflow with ideas and wishes that you fully intend to manifest. Honor your imaginings regardless of others seeing them as crazy or impossible.	208
Richard P. Feynman	See that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.	208
Sheryl Sandberg	I would love to meet J.K. Rowling and tell her how much I admire her writing and am amazed by her imagination. I read every 'Harry Potter' book as it came out and looked forward to each new one. I am rereading them now with my kids and enjoying them every bit as much. She made me look at jelly beans in a whole new way.	208
Denis Waitley	You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.	209
Richard Bach	To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there.	209
Arthur Conan Doyle	For strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.	209
Christian Bale	Essentially, I'm untrained, so I just go with my imagination and try to put myself as solidly as I can into the shoes of whatever person I'm going to be playing.	209
Wislawa Szymborska	All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.	209
John Berger	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.	209
Rita Dove	Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine.	209
Charlie Chaplin	The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.	210
William Blake	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.	210
Ambrose Bierce	Doubt is the father of invention.	210
Nicole Kidman	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.	210
Robert Collier	The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.	210
William Hazlitt	A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.	210
Amy Tan	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.	210
H. P. Lovecraft	No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and the like.	211
Percy Bysshe Shelley	The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.	211
Karl Lagerfeld	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.	211
Kazuo Ishiguro	I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.	211
Meryl Streep	I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me.	211
Anna Deavere Smith	I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.	211
Jonathan Sacks	The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.	211
Albert Einstein	To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science.	212
Marcel Proust	Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.	212
Joseph Conrad	Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.	212
Quintilian	To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.	212
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain.	212
Abraham Verghese	Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.	212
Jose Ortega y Gasset	An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.	212
Blaise Pascal	Imagination disposes of everything; it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.	213
George Orwell	Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.	213
Tom Stoppard	Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.	213
Ewan McGregor	Everything you do on set is directly related to your imagination when you read the script for the first time.	213
Paul Ryan	Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.	214
Daniel Tammet	If when we are taught English we are just taught the rules of grammar, it would take all our love of our language away from us. What makes us love a subject like English is when we learn all these fantastic stories. Feeding the imagination is what makes a subject come alive.	214
John C. Reilly	I would love to do a western. I would love to play an explorer. That is always something that has really captured my imagination since I was a kid, like James Cook or Magellan or Earnest Shackleton.	214
Vincent Van Gogh	Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.	215
Bryan Cranston	The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.	215
Christopher Lee	It's what you don't see that keeps you on the edge of your seat in any kind of film - leave it to the imagination of the viewer.	215
Ludwig Wittgenstein	Uttering a word is like striking a note on the keyboard of the imagination.	216
Victor Hugo	Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.	216
Jonathan Kozol	Businessmen are not in business to lose customers, and schools do not exist to free their clients from the agencies of mass persuasion. School and media possess a productive monopoly upon the imagination of a child.	216
Rose George	The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.	216
Henry Ward Beecher	The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.	217
Steven Spielberg	My problem is that my imagination won't turn off. I wake up so excited I can't eat breakfast. I've never run out of energy. It's not like OPEC oil; I don't worry about a premium going on my energy. It's just always been there. I got it from my mom.	217
Chuck Palahniuk	What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.	217
H. P. Lovecraft	Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience.	218
Lucius Annaeus Seneca	We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality.	218
Salman Rushdie	The suicide bomber's imagination leads him to believe in a brilliant act of heroism, when in fact he is simply blowing himself up pointlessly and taking other people's lives.	218
Seamus Heaney	I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.	218
John Irving	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.	218
Sarah Brightman	When you gaze at stars and think about planets, the places it takes your imagination are amazing! You look up the sky, and you know the stars have always been here; they were referenced in biblical times and have always been present. They are somewhere up there in the future, and they guide you; they make you feel safe.	218
Ernest Hemingway	Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.	219
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.	Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.	219
Samuel Johnson	The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.	219
George R. R. Martin	I had this desire to see the world. I couldn't see any of it, but I saw it in my imagination, and that's why I always read books, and I could go to Mars or Middle Earth or the Hyborian age.	219
Jennifer Lopez	You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.	219
Shia LaBeouf	If you're trying to learn how to act from a class, you're analyzing the teachers' movements and their intricacies, and it becomes like a pantomime of you wanting to be them, and that's wrong. Literature is an easier way to study acting, because then you can take any kind of spin. It's your own imagination, and your own version of it.	219
Mark Haddon	Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.	219
Baruch Spinoza	It may easily come to pass that a vain man may become proud and imagine himself pleasing to all when he is in reality a universal nuisance.	220
Henry Miller	Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything.	220
J. G. Ballard	I take for granted that for the imaginative writer, the exercise of the imagination is part of the basic process of coping with reality, just as actors need to act all the time to make up for some deficiency in their sense of themselves.	220
Alejandro Jodorowsky	I want to liberate my imagination and my mind with every kind of movie. That is what I wanted to do all my life.	221
Isabel Allende	There's basically an element of fiction in everything you remember. Imagination and memory are almost the same brain processes. When I write fiction, I know that I'm using a bunch of lies that I've made up to create some form of truth. When I write a memoir, I'm using true elements to create something that will always be somehow fictionalized.	221
Nancy Gibbs	Be bored and see where it takes you, because the imagination's dusty wilderness is worth crossing if you want to sculpt your soul.	221
Stephen King	Wherever you write is supposed to be a little bit of a refuge, a place where you can get away from the world. The more closed in you are, the more you're forced back on your own imagination.	222
Samuel Taylor Coleridge	Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.	222
Bryant H. McGill	The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.	223
Joseph B. Wirthlin	Great leaders communicate a vision that captures the imagination and fires the hearts and minds of those around them.	223
Jane Campion	There's no artist in this world that doesn't enjoy the dream that if they have bad reviews now, the story of Keats can redeem them, in their fantasy or imagination, in the future. I think Keats' poem 'Endymion' is a really difficult poem, and I'm not surprised that a lot of people pulled it apart in a way.	223
Neil Gaiman	When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of all of this stuff, and you pour it out. And that's where you start from.	224
Joe Rogan	I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.	224
Alan Moore	I've developed a theory that there's an inverse relationship between money and imagination. That if you've got lots of imagination then you don't really need much money, and if you've got lots of money then you won't bother with much imagination.	224
Jules Verne	I seriously believed that my last hour was approaching, and yet, so strange is imagination, all I thought of was some childish hypothesis or other. In such circumstances, you do not choose your own thoughts. They overcome you.	225
Kristen Stewart	I don't want to discredit people's individuality, but I think people are pretty much the same. People are very similar. If you have a good enough imagination then you can feel things that you personally have never done before. That's acting.	225
Al Gore	Our 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.	226
Alan Greenspan	You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.	226
Karen Armstrong	Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective.	226
George Orwell	If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face - forever.	301
Steven Spielberg	The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.	301
Tom Waits	My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.	301
Will Self	The great liberty of the fictional writer is to let the imagination out of the traces and see it gallop off over the horizon.	301
Carl Jung	Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.	302
Thomas Huxley	The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.	302
Alison Gopnik	Scientists and philosophers tend to treat knowledge, imagination and love as if they were all very separate parts of human nature. But when it comes to children, all three are deeply entwined. Children learn the truth by imagining all the ways the world could be, and testing those possibilities.	302
Twyla Tharp	There's the tradition of the 19th-century ballets, and the 20th century has had a difficult time with that tradition. And it's had a difficult time with many components of the Romantic imagination because of modernism.	303
Stephen Covey	Live out of your imagination, not your history.	304
Tim Berners-Lee	When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination.	304
LL Cool J	Art is about imagination. When you look at a picture from Salvador Dali, that's about imagination. When you look at Picasso, that's about imagination. Doing stuff from your heart.	306
Eric Bana	I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.	306
Katy Perry	I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.	307
Hunter S. Thompson	I learned a long time ago that reality was much weirder than anyone's imagination.	309
Emile M. Cioran	Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.	309
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield	To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.	310
Julian Baggini	If we find it hard to believe that winning millions might not be so lucky after all, we just don't have a good enough imagination. If I fantasise about winning the lottery, it doesn't take long before all sorts of worrisome potential consequences occur to me.	310
Henry Ward Beecher	Faith is spiritualized imagination.	313
Tom Wolfe	It's not just that reporting gives you a bigger slice of life, gives - lends verisimilitude to what you are doing - it's that it feeds the imagination.	313
Doris Lessing	What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.	314
Paul Theroux	I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life with your imagination, then what you write ought to have lasting value, no matter what the mood of your prose.	314
Joyce Carol Oates	Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind.	315
Carl Jung	The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.	316
Camille Paglia	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.	316
Francis Ford Coppola	I have more of a vivid imagination than I have talent. I cook up ideas. It's just a characteristic.	316
George R. R. Martin	There was part of me that wanted to see the world and travel to distant places, but I could only do it in my imagination, so I read ferociously and imagined things.	316
Nick Cave	I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.	316
Wayne Dyer	Never, and I mean never, allow anyone else's ideas of who you can or can't become sully your dream or pollute your imagination. This is your territory, and a 'Keep Out' sign is a great thing to erect at all entrances to your imagination.	317
Marcus Aurelius	Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.	318
Carl Jung	All the works of man have their origin in creative fantasy. What right have we then to depreciate imagination.	318
Steve Carell	Reading a book, watching a movie, going to a play, it's transporting, and very, very exciting. And to be a part of that, creating things with your imagination, whoa.	319
Virginia Postrel	The innovative process is a fragile one, dependent on a complex, often messy interplay of imagination, competition, and exchange. Curbing new ideas hurts not only individual creators but the audience for which they create and the posterity that inherits their legacy.	319
Ambrose Bierce	Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.	321
Jack Nicholson	It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.	321
C. S. Lewis	I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.	322
Ray Bradbury	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.	324
George Bernard Shaw	Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.	325
Nicolas Cage	I know there's been a lot that's been said about animated voice work, as though it's 'you can do this in your jeans and there's no camera and no pressure there. It's no big deal. It's easy.' The truth is, it's really a great test: how deep is your ability is to access your imagination?	325
Ronald Reagan	There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.	326
Franz Kafka	Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.	326
Napoleon Hill	All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.	326
Thomas Jefferson	The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits which favor that theory.	402
Benjamin Disraeli	The world is governed by very different personages from what is imagined by those who are not behind the scenes.	405
Edmund Burke	There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.	405
Thomas Sowell	I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.	405
Richard Dawkins	I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.	407
Salman Rushdie	It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.	407
Michio Kaku	So often, science fiction helps to get young people interested in science. That's why I don't mind talking about science fiction. It has a real role to play: to seize the imagination.	408
Napoleon Bonaparte	The human race is governed by its imagination.	409
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam	My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.	410
Khalil Gibran	I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.	412
George Santayana	The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.	413
Albert Einstein	Imagination is more important than knowledge.	415
Voltaire	Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.	416
Mason Cooley	Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.	416
Mason Cooley	Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.	417
Donald Trump	A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate.	419
Wayne Dyer	Remember that your imagination is yours and yours alone. You have the inborn capacity to use it in any way that you choose. No one else is responsible for your imagination. Anything placed in your imagination and held there ultimately becomes your reality.	420
Marilyn Manson	I can't satisfy myself with just trying to tie all of my imagination into music, especially when music is not appreciated as an art form as much as it used to be.	420
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	He who does not think much of himself is much more esteemed than he imagines.	421
Steven Wright	People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do.	421
James Surowiecki	Speculators get a bad rap. In the popular imagination they're greedy, heedless, and amoral, adept at price manipulations and dirty tricks. In reality, they often play a key role in making markets run smoothly.	422
Orison Swett Marden	Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.	423
Terry Pratchett	I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.	501
Francis Bacon	They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.	502
Ray Bradbury	Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.	502
Deepak Chopra	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.	503
Steven Spielberg	I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.	505
Salman Rushdie	What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness; second, their imagination, and third, their industry.	505
Albert Einstein	Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions.	509
Francois de La Rochefoucauld	One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.	509
Noam Chomsky	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.	509
Christian Louboutin	Being on a trapeze is like dreaming. I feel totally outside of myself when I'm flying. You know, designing shoes, my imagination is flying in my drawings.	511
Blaise Pascal	Men often take their imagination for their heart; and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.	515
William Shakespeare	The lunatic, the lover, and the poet, are of imagination all compact.	522
Steven Wright	I feel very lucky to make a living from my imagination; I'm very grateful for that. I like that what I do is create. I'm feeling very lucky to have had the career I had. It's gone much longer and bigger than I ever thought it would be.	523
Nicolas Cage	Science fiction is a way that I can go into the abstract, go into the imagination, and audiences are still willing to go along for the ride.	523
Steven Wright	I just have a relationship with my imagination. It's like my friend, almost.	526
Richard Dawkins	I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That's very true.	603
Joseph B. Wirthlin	Experience teaches that when the will and imagination are in conflict, the imagination usually wins. What we imagine may defeat our reason and make us slaves to what we taste, see, hear, smell, and feel in the mind's eye. The body is indeed the servant of the mind.	607
Nicolas Cage	Often you hear stories about never working with children. I disagree because children still have that residual magical thinking. They haven't had their imagination knocked out of them by turning into adults and life experiences.	607
Oscar Wilde	The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates.	609
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Few people have the imagination for reality.	610
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.	612
H. L. Mencken	It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.	613
Thomas Carlyle	Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.	618
Zig Ziglar	Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.	620
Ralph Waldo Emerson	America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.	622
Albert Einstein	I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.	623
Taylor Swift	Anything you put your mind to and add your imagination into can make your life a lot better and a lot more fun.	702
Albert Einstein	I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination.	719
Samuel Johnson	Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess.	720
Dolly Parton	When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.	723
Henry David Thoreau	Generally speaking, a howling wilderness does not howl: it is the imagination of the traveler that does the howling.	815
Bill Gates	To create a new standard, it takes something that's not just a little bit different; it takes something that's really new and really captures people's imagination, and the Macintosh, of all the machines I've ever seen, is the only one that meets that standard.	819
Henry David Thoreau	It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart; it being much more sensitive.	908

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