Imagination Quotes

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I remember the first time we stood in this spot. We were on the deck of a boat in the middle of what was then… — Michael Eisner
Fiction is not imagination. It is what anticipates imagination by giving it the form of reality. This is quite opposite to our own natural tendency… — Jean Baudrillard
Imagination is best fed by reality, an odd diet for something nonexistent there are few details of daily life and its broad range of emotional… — Patricia A. McKillip
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. — Wislawa Szymborska
Imagination is nostalgia for the past, the absent it is the liquid solution in which art develops the snapshot of reality. — Cyril Connolly
But he was not kidnapped. ... It's in his imagination. He creates his own world and he believes it is reality. — Unknown Author
The worst realities of our age are manufactured realities. It is therefore our task, as creative participants in the universe, to re dream our world.… — Ben Okri
The songs are not meant to be real life. They're meant to have a psychic - rather than a factual - bearing on the listener.… — Will Oldham
All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances. — Unknown Author
ROMANCE, n. Fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of Things as They Are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to probability,… — Ambrose Bierce
Civility is a work of the imagination, for it is through the imagination that we render others sufficiently like ourselves for them to become subjects… — Benjamin Barber
And what is the great thing that the stage does? It cultivates the imagination. And . . . the imagination constitutes the great difference between… — Robert Green Ingersoll
I had a vivid imagination. Not only could I put myself in the other person's place, but I could not avoid doing so. My sympathies… — Clarence Darrow
Architecture has to be greater than just architecture. It has to address social values, as well as technical and aesthetic values. On top of that,… — Samuel Mockbee
The real giants have always been poets, men who jumped from facts into the realm of imagination and ideas. — William Bernbach
Better mendacities Than the classics in paraphrase! Some quick to arm, some for adventure, some from fear of weakness, some from fear of censure, some… — Ezra Pound
Political image is like mixing cement. When it's wet, you can move it around and shape it, but at some point it hardens and there's… — Walter F. Mondale
No cause more frequently produces bashfulness than too high an opinion of our own importance. He that imagines an assembly filled with his merit, panting… — Samuel Johnson
Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses. — David E. Kelley
Soil is a resource, a living, breathing entity that, if treated properly, will maintain itself. It's our lifeline for survival. When it has finally been… — Marjorie Harris

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