Imagination Quotes · Page 126

The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence.

— Carl Van Vechten

One thing is for sure I do not believe in dreaming and for me reality is more fascinating than fantasy.

— Rekha

Imagination is activating the SIM card of your super conscious.-RVM

— RVM

“The imagination, like certain wild animals, will not breed in captivity.”

— George Orwell

I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.

— Joseph Heller

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds. Remy de Gourmont An idea is salvation by imagination

— Frank Lloyd Wright

Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death

— Anais Nin

Genius is not dependent on playing safe or by the book, but by moving around your imagination hook.

— Tasneem Hameed

The chief imagination of Christendom, Dante Alighieri, so utterly found himself That he has made that hollow face of his More plain…

— William Butler Yeats

“Life is full of disparate details arbitrarily joined together by dreams, pain and yearning. I do not long for sense, but I…

— Juhani Peltonen

“She wasn't fantasy anymore. But something real, something he couldn't imagine living without, and he crossed his arms, as if bracing himself…

— Nicholas Sparks

“Glamour is fueled by the dreams and imagination of mortals. Writers, artists, little boys pretending to be knights - the fey are…

— Julie Kagawa

All of us, writers and non-writers alike, have incredible well-springs of personal experience and history. And we also have imagination - which…

— Ayana Mathis

The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.

— Edmund White

We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are…

— Thomas Merton

“Dreams are to beautify our life. I don know either they all or some of them will come true or even they…

— Reham Gamal

Chess is a game that benefits people of all ages, especially kids, in any area of life, business, problem solving, and social…

— Dustin Diamond

The difference between men and women is inalienable. It is not a political fact, subject to cultural definition and redefinition, but a…

— Anne Truitt

To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and…

— Thomas Ligotti

“Lovers and madmen have such seething brains, Such shaping fantasies, that apprehend More than cool reason ever comprehends. The lunatic, the lover…

— Shakespeare William Shakespeare

The Beatles came and everybody forgot about everything else. That was a friendly, together, hip interpersonal music, introducing electric sustain, and it…

— Paul Bley

Now, as Mandelbrot points out, ... Nature has played a joke on the mathematicians. The 19th-century mathematicians may not have been lacking…

— Freeman Dyson

The heart of Christianity is a myth which is also a fact. The old myth of the Dying God, without ceasing to…

— C. S. Lewis

What makes life worthwhile is having a big enough objective, something which catches our imagination and lays hold of our allegiance, and…

— Anonymous

Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.

— Laurette Taylor

I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

— Martha Gellhorn

There is no better way to exercise the imagination than the study of the law.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Things are pretty, graceful, rich, elegant, handsome, but, until they speak to the imagination, not yet beautiful.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Use your imagination not to scare you to death but to inspire you to live.”

— Shannon Leto

It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.

— Havelock Ellis

“There's no substitute for imagination, but creativity is only enhanced when forged with life experience.”

— John Ridley

A ray of imagination or of wisdom may enlighten the universe, and glow into remotest centuries.

— George Berkeley

I just envisioned little fire fighter men marching on trees. So cute.

— Anette Sandberg

A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.

— Russell Page

There is a vision for my life that is greater than my imagination can hold.

— Oprah Winfrey

The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.

— Mignon McLaughlin

“You cannot trust your eyes, if your imagination is out of focus.”

— Mark Twain

“Without imagination, writing is a stack of lumber, a sack of nails, and a locked tool shed.”

— Michael J. Kannengieser

Music has the capacity to touch the innermost reaches of the soul and music gives flight to the imagination.

— Plato

A picture is first of all a product of the imagination of the artist; it must never be a copy.

— Edgar Degas