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- It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
- Martha Gellhorn on Imagination
- 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.
- Florence Welch on Imagination
- 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.
- Julian Schnabel on Imagination
- 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.
- Jack Nicholson on Imagination
- 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.
- Michelle Forbes on Imagination
- 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.
- LeVar Burton on Imagination
- It's just a way of trying to get to a third thing that's not particular to any quote-unquote genre. It's been great for me it's really opened me up and gotten me to use that part of my imagination. It's very scary in a lot of ways, and just as exciting.
- Charlie Hunter on Imagination
- 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.
- Olivier Martinez on Imagination
- It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.
- Alexander McCall Smith on Imagination
- 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.
- Robin Wright Penn on Imagination
- Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind.
- Joseph Franklin Rutherford on Imagination
- 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.
- Georg Brandes on Imagination
- 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.
- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison on Imagination
- Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.
- E. E. Cummings on Imagination
- 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.
- Phylicia Rashad on Imagination
- Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
- Marcel Proust on Imagination
- Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
- Ambrose Bierce on Imagination
- Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
- Christopher Isherwood on Imagination
- Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
- Bill Hicks on Imagination
- Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.
- Emile M. Cioran on Imagination
- Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
- Gaston Bachelard on Imagination
- Live out of your imagination, not your history.
- Stephen Covey on Imagination
- Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
- Albert Einstein on Imagination
- Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.
- Henry Miller on Imagination
- Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.
- Joyce Cary on Imagination
- Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.
- Voltaire on Imagination
- Love is based on imagination.
- Olivier Martinez on Imagination
- Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
- H. L. Mencken on Imagination
- 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.
- Ronnie James Dio on Imagination
- Man lives by imagination.
- Havelock Ellis on Imagination
- 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.
- Joshua Foer on Imagination
- 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.
- John Cameron on Imagination
- 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.
- Sofia Kovalevskaya on Imagination
- Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
- Carl Clinton Van Doren on Imagination
- Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes on Imagination
- Men often take their imagination for their heart and they believe they are converted as soon as they think of being converted.
- Blaise Pascal on Imagination
- Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?
- Ernst Toller on Imagination
- Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
- Agnes Smedley on Imagination
- 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.
- Plato on Imagination
- 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.
- Stephen Sondheim on Imagination
- My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!
- Randy Castillo on Imagination
- My books are elegiac in the sense that they're odes to a nation that even I sometimes think may not exist anymore except in my memory and my imagination.
- Richard Russo on Imagination
- My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
- John Adams on Imagination
- My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.
- Andrew Bird on Imagination
- 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?
- Barbara Corcoran on Imagination
- 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.
- Jessica Hagedorn on Imagination
- My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.
- Clara Schumann on Imagination
- 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.
- Kim Elizabeth on Imagination
- My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.
- Patricia Highsmith on Imagination
- My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.
- John Keats on Imagination
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