- 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.
- James Weldon Johnson on Imagination
- 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.
- Georg C. Lichtenberg on Imagination
- 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.
- Chris Van Allsburg on Imagination
- The power of imagination makes us infinite.
- John Muir on Imagination
- The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.
- Edmund Wilson on Imagination
- The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.
- Steven Spielberg on Imagination
- The question is how to bring a work of imagination out of one language that was just as taken-for-granted by the persons who used it as our language is by ourselves. Nothing strange about it.
- Robert Fitzgerald on Imagination
- The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.
- Bryant H. McGill on Imagination
- The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
- James A. Michener on Imagination
- 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.
- Alan Watts on Imagination
- The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.
- Charlie Chaplin on Imagination
- The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
- Thomas Huxley on Imagination
- The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope.
- Henry Ward Beecher on Imagination
- The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.
- Robert Collier on Imagination
- The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.
- Dennis Potter on Imagination
- 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.
- Geraldine Brooks on Imagination
- The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
- Alexander Cockburn on Imagination
- 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.
- William Blake on Imagination
- The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
- Albert Einstein on Imagination
- The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
- Samuel Johnson on Imagination
- 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.
- Alex Cox on Imagination
- 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.
- Helen Rowland on Imagination
- The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
- Elizabeth Drew on Imagination
- The world of reality has its limits the world of imagination is boundless.
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau on Imagination
- 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.
- Thomas Kinkade on Imagination
- Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.
- Jack Prelutsky on Imagination
- Then there was Clark Ashton Smith, who wrote for Weird Tales and who had a wild imagination. He wasn't a very talented writer, but his imagination was wonderful.
- Jack Vance on Imagination
- There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.
- Josh Billings on Imagination
- There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.
- Anais Nin on Imagination
- 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.
- Edith Wharton on Imagination
- There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
- Ronald Reagan on Imagination
- There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.
- Gilbert K. Chesterton on Imagination
- There are no shortcuts in life - only those we imagine.
- Frank Leahy on Imagination
- There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.
- Leigh Hunt on Imagination
- There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
- William Godwin on Imagination
- There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings but none when they are under the influence of imagination.
- Edmund Burke on Imagination
- There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.
- Jonas Salk on Imagination
- 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.
- Jean Giraudoux on Imagination
- There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
- Lionel Trilling on Imagination
- 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.
- Milan Kundera on Imagination
- 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.
- Sean O'Faolain on Imagination
- 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.
- William Godwin on Imagination
- There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.
- Geraldine Brooks on Imagination
- 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.
- Jane Campion on Imagination
- There's no environment. Use your imagination. There's no fourth wall, whether it's the first time you've told this story about her life, or the sixth time.
- Jill Clayburgh on Imagination
- 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.
- Eddie Marsan on Imagination
- 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.
- Zac Posen on Imagination
- There's the argument that you can relate to someone who's completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.
- Idris Elba on Imagination
- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.
- Francis Bacon on Imagination
- 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.
- Margaret Mahy on Imagination
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