Imagination Quotes

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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… — Ronald Frame
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… — Irma S. Rombauer
We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity. — George William Russell
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… — Alice Smith
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… — Julia Glass
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… — Keahu Kahuanui
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… — Tristram Stuart
Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have grown in size and consequence,… — Rose George
The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk. — Rose George
When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids. — Dolly Parton
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?… — James Fenimore Cooper
The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for dramatic effect. The… — 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… — Virginia Postrel
Imagination is an instrument of survival. — Rogier van der Heide
Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work. — Paul Bloom
Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it. — 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… — Guy Davenport
No two dramatists think or write alike. Ten thousand playwrights can take the same premise, as they have done since Shakespeare, and not one play… — Lajos Egri
The ability to recognize opportunities and move in new - and sometimes unexpected - directions will benefit you no matter your interests or aspirations. A… — Drew Gilpin Faust
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… — Cynthia Ozick

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