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Imagination Quotes
"The money will talk?' said Mr Spools carefully.'Imps,' said Moist. 'They're only a sort of intelligent spell. They don't even have to have a shape. We'll print them on the higher denominations."
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"When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist."
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"Imagination has a great deal to do with winning."
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"One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet."
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"If there weren't so many interesting conversations taking place inside my head, I might venture to speak out loud."
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"Were it not for imagination a man would be as happy in arms of a chambermaid as of a duchess."
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"Random thoughts have the potential to create a chaotic reality."
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"There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination."
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"And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five."
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"Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so. What separated a German mother from a French mother?"
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"A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination."
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"Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction."
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"In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature."
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"We forget that what matters begins with the imagination."
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"A certificate of live birth is not the same thing by any stretch of the imagination as a birth certificate."
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"I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one."
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"Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature."
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"Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute."
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"One of the virtues of being very young is that you don't let the facts get in the way of your imagination."
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"Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination."
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"Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world."
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"He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart."
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"The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable."
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"My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood."
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"To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another."
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"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."
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"You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination."
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"Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them."
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"While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot."
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"What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination."
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"Imagination only comes when you privilege the subconscious, when you make delay and procrastination work for you."
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"Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is."
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"You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination."
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"Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood."
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"It is impossible to see the angel unless you first have a notion of it."
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"I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it."
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"The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future."
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"Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity."
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"The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability."
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"You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me."
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"To put down an ideogram of a table so that people will recognize it as a table is not the work of a painter, but to sense it for a moment as a magic carpet with a leg hanging down at each corner is the beginning of a painter's imagination."
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"Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination - think up a story and go live it for an afternoon."
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"For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free."
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"Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!"
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"Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana."
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"The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older."
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"A little imagination goes a long way in Fes."
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