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Imagination Quotes
"A little imagination goes a long way in Fes."
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"Emily wondered whether Artie would be so carefree if he knew The Book Club was performing grand theft imagination."
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"Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly."
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"We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination."
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"Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading."
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"But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there."
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"I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination."
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"Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!""
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"As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope."
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"I believe in imagination. I did Kramer vs. Kramer before I had children. But the mother I would be was already inside me."
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"Without imagination we can go nowhere. And imagination is not restricted to the arts. Every scientist I have met who has been a success has had to imagine."
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"With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour."
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"Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment."
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"I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings."
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"There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination."
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"I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination."
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"Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed."
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"What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out."
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"I do a lot of curiosity buying; I buy it if I like the album cover, I buy it if I like the name of the band, anything that sparks my imagination. I still like to go to record stores, I like to just wander around and I'll buy whatever catches my attention."
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"Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination."
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"Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of our imagination."
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"I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel."
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"Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell."
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"I imagined a labyrinth of labyrinths, a maze of mazes, a twisting, turning, ever-widening labyrinth that contained both past and future and somehow implied the stars. Absorbed in those illusory imaginings, I forgot that I was a pursued man; I felt myself, for an indefinite while, the abstract perceiver of the world. The vague, living countryside, the moon, the remains of the day did their work in me; so did the gently downward road, which forestalled all possibility of weariness. The evening was near, yet infinite."
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"I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography."
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"There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers; we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness."
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"Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it's always been there. It's been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had."
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"But there is so much more to do for the city we love... a Dallas with roads as strong as our businesses, parks as beautiful as our children, a downtown as tall as our imagination."
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"The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man."
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"The openness of rural Nebraska certainly influenced me. That openness, in a way, fosters the imagination. But growing up, Lincoln wasn't a small town. It was a college town. It had record stores and was a liberal place."
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"When you dream, you activate the possibility of what some call impossible."
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"Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop."
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"I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be."
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"It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas."
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"The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination."
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"When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination."
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"But what is a dream, Conor O'Malley? Who is to say that it is not everything else that is the dream?"
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"A daily dose of daydreaming heals the heart, soothes the soul, and strengthens the imagination."
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"I often wonder if my imagination is one of God's choicest gifts bestowed upon me to deliberately break me free from the frequent doldrums of my humanity."
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"I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do."
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"It faintly irritated him that Zaphod had to impose some ludicrous fantasy on to the scene to make it work for him. All this Margrathea nonsense seemed juvenile. Isn't it enough to see that a garden is beautiful without having to believe that there are fairies at the bottom of it too?"
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"A poet can imagine an iceberg singing a melancholic song while the world leaders find it difficult to imagine proper solution to global warming."
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"How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child."
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"Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men."
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"Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can be. Imagination gives you the picture. Vision gives you the impulse to make the picture your own."
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"His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it."
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