Creative arts, new inventions, and new ideas spring from those blessed with imagination, and magic stimulates imagination. It is no coincidence that… — Vivianne Crowley Copy Share Image
Imagination is best fed by reality, an odd diet for something nonexistent there are few details of daily life and its broad… — Patricia A. McKillip Copy Share Image
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… — John Irving Copy Share Image
“The rEaL wOrLd is but a fictional place where those who have narrow minds and shallow imagination compile their oppressive ideas of… — Khayri R.R. Woulfe Copy Share Image
One of the weaknesses in the cooperative is that it has never been sufficiently leavened by the imagination. This is a quick-silver… — Edward Dahlberg Copy Share Image
Political correctness may make for smooth edges, but it does little for the imagination and nothing for the arts. Writers work best… — Amanda Foreman Copy Share Image
At 11 years old, in 1968, my job was to deliver food on foot, so I spent my day walking around the… — George Pelecanos Copy Share Image
“The imagination is not a faculty for the creation of illusion; it is the faculty by which alone man apprehends reality. The… — Harold Clarke Goddard Copy Share Image
When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“Any artist is insulted by the suggestion that art is merely a matter of recording reality, and knows that it is impossible… — Joan Lindsay Copy Share Image
“She imagined all the mothers of the unnamed children, imagined the ad cut from the paper, a mother writing her child’s name… — Douglas Weissman Copy Share Image
“As the virtual world of electronic communication becomes the world many of us inhabit all the time, in turning to imaginative literature… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
“There's a great difficulty in making choices if you have any imagination at all. Faced with such a multitude of desireable choices,… — John Barth Copy Share Image
So that it must be only by the imagination that Satan has access to the soul, to tempt and delude it, or… — Jonathan Edwards Copy Share Image
O power of fantasy that steals our minds from things outside, to leave us unaware, although a thousand trumpets may blow loud--what… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
It is not hard to live through a day, if you can live through a moment. What creates despair is the imagination,… — Andre Dubus Copy Share Image
OPPA, I'm different : I love u to death I won't betray u I know what u like to eat I know… — Saodevi Copy Share Image
A Leader must possess credibility, imagination, enthusiasm, vision, foresight, a sense of timing, a passion for excellence and be willing to share. — William Rosenberg Copy Share Image
A miracle to confound natural law, a baffling reversal of the inevitable consequences . . . a miracle. . . . An… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
When we experience a film, we consciously prime ourselves for illusion. Putting aside will and intellect, we make way for it in… — Ingmar Bergman Copy Share Image
The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The fabric of a mighty state, which has been reared by the labours of successive ages, could not be overturned by the… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Reverie is the groundwork of creative imagination; it is the privilege of the artist that with him it is not as with… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
When the imagination sleeps, words are emptied of their meaning: a deaf population absent-mindedly registers the condemnation of a man. ... there… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Maybe that is the power of poetry. It somehow transcends news cycles, and becomes a part of our collective imagination. That is… — Kwame Dawes Copy Share Image
“Knowledge is borrowed. Imagination is original. It is the power of imagination that makes us different from our animal ancestors.” — Banani Ray Copy Share Image
If the imagination is shackled, and nothing is described but what we see, seldom will anything truly great be produced either in… — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
What we call imagination is actually the universal library of what's real. You couldn’t imagine it if it weren’t real somewhere, sometime. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
The highest and best work of imagination is the marvelous transformation that it works in character. Imagine that you are one with… — Charles Fillmore Copy Share Image
I'm always easily frightened and I hate being scared. I've never been able to go on the haunted house rides at carnivals… — Caity Lotz Copy Share Image
Most of the songs I write just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to… — Rivers Cuomo Copy Share Image
Imagination is everything. It is the preview of life's coming attractions. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Never give up on what… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Organisations with decision-making speed and imagination will thrive as nobody can claim to have a monopoly over creativity. — N. R. Narayana Murthy Copy Share Image
“Resting on the roots of this old oak I lean back against his knotted trunk, shine my granny smith on my sleeve… — Kellie Elmore Copy Share Image
When my youngest daughter got married, I designed her wedding dress and I really let my imagination and energy go crazy! All… — Kansai Yamamoto Copy Share Image
I cling to the fantasy that I could have done something more creative. Like actually writing a script, or writing a book.… — Hugh Grant Copy Share Image
Not in books only, nor yet in oral discourse, but often also in words there are boundless stores of moral and historic… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
“Dreams, kindled in the fire of imagination, ignite in the brilliance of our minds, and are wrought in the work of our… — Suzy Davies Copy Share Image
To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For me, it's owning the fact that I have a sensitive disposition along with a rampant imagination that makes up stories and… — Zosia Mamet Copy Share Image
