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Imagination Quotes by Ambrose Bierce
- Doubt is the father of invention.
- Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.
- 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,…
- IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
- RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.
- SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.
- Romance is the fiction that owes no allegiance to the God of things as they are. In the novel the writer's thought is tethered to…
- TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its…
- ASS, n. A public singer with a good voice but no ear. In Virginia City, Nevada, he is called the Washoe Canary, in Dakota, the…
More Imagination Quotes
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely. — Marcus Aurelius
- A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. — Jane Austen
- What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! — Jane Austen
- Imagination is the highest kite one can fly. — Lauren Bacall
- Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what… — Francis Bacon
- They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea. — Francis Bacon
- It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can… — David Bailey
- Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable. — James A. Baldwin
- I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means. — J. G. Ballard
- The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely… — J. G. Ballard
- I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination. — Eric Bana