Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
John Lennon
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw
Our imagination is the only limit to what we can hope to have in the future.
Charles F. Kettering
An idea is salvation by imagination.
Frank Lloyd Wright
The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.
John Ruskin
They imagine they're the wave of the future, but it's only sewage flowing downhill.
Lois McMaster Bujold
Imagination decides everything.
Blaise Pascal
There is nothing more dreadful than imagination without taste.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Imagination is more important than knowledge...
Albert Einstein
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
Albert Einstein
I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
Albert Einstein
Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, "Just watch!"
Bill Bradley
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
Alexander Chase
Imagination, which is the Eldorado of the poet and of the novel-writer, often proves the most pernicious gift to the individuals who compose the talkers instead of the writers in society.
Marguerite Blessington
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
Tom Stoppard
The ability of writers to imagine what is not the self, to familiarize the strange and mystify the familiar, is the test of their power.
Toni Morrison
My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it.
Ursula K. LeGuin
Imagination is like a lofty building reared to meet the sky - fancy is a balloon that soars at the wind's will.
Frank Gelett Burgess
Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.
Antisthenes
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
Adam M. Smith
Imagination, industry, and intelligence - "the three I s" - are all indispensable to the actress, but of these three the greatest is, without doubt, imagination.
Kitty O'neill Collins
Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.
Irving Howe
There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.
Sean O'Faolain
You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
Imagination is the first faculty wanting in those that do harm to their kind.
Margaret Oliphant
Imagination is a very precise thing, you know-it is not fantasy; the man who invented the wheel while he was observing another man walking-that is imagination!
Jacques Lipchitz
The life of man is the true romance, which when it is valiantly conduced, will yield the imagination a higher joy than any fiction.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.
Mary Richards
Life's like a movie, write your own ending. Keep believing, keep pretending.
Jim Henson
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 almost nothing you can do to reshape it.
Walter F. Mondale
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.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
Imagine that the blackboard is an N-dimensional manifold.
Hal Varian
To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.
Wallace Stevens
Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.
Lauren Bacall
There are moments when a man's imagination so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.
Edith Wharton
Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage.
Ellen Terry
Imagination is a quality given to man to compensate for what he is not, and a sense of humaor is provided to console him from what he is.
Oscar Wilde
Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?
Leonardo da Vinci
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
Edgar Allan Poe
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
Edgar Allan Poe
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.
John Dewey
Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
Carl Sagan
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
Alfred North Whitehead
There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan
There are no such things as limits to growth, because there are no limits to the human capacity for intelligence, imagination, and wonder.
Ronald Reagan
The function of the imagination is not to make strange things settled, so much as to make settled things strange.
G. K. Chesterton
The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.
Charles F. Kettering
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Thomas A. Edison
Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
Bill Hicks
You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.
Charles de Gaulle
True change takes place in the imagination.
Thomas Moore
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning.
Gloria Steinem
Science may set limits to knowledge, but should not set limits to imagination.
Bertrand Russell
I think the fun part of the show is, every hour is completely different. There's no formula by any stretch of imagination.
Bertram Van Munster
Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
Claude Bernard
A discerning eye needs only a hint, and understatement leaves the imagination free to build its own elaborations.
Russell Page
When I first heard about this, my imagination wasn't big enough to handle it. But it looks like we have another product we can be proud of.
Mark Anderson
It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-level art, twisted imagination and a chainsaw.
Damien Hirst
You will recognize your own path when you come upon it, because you will suddenly have all the energy and imagination you will ever need.
Jerry Gillies
Live in your imagination, not in your past.
Linda Chandler
It's not a trunk song by any stretch of the imagination.
Martin Charnin
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Use your imagination not to scare yourself to death but to inspire yourself to life.
Adele Brookman
Imagination is the true magic carpet.
Norman Vincent Peale
For now, unfortunately, we're going to leave that up to your imagination.
Tony White
All he has is his dog and his imagination.
Tim Sample
Takes a lot of imagination, and frankly, my imagination was pretty much absorbed by my children.
Jill Clayburgh
Faith is spiritualized imagination.
Henry Ward Beecher
To claim their goal is not partisan really stretches the imagination.
William Greene
We just have to basically hope that we don't have a hurricane come back into the Gulf of Mexico this summer. We haven't fixed yet, by any stretch of the imagination, everything that got broken.
Matt Simmons
This has gone absolutely way beyond our imagination or expectations ever.
Hadi Jawad
A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.
Arthur W. Pinero
Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
Austin O'Malley
You can't depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain
A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.
Charles M. Schwab
Imagination... its limits are only those of the mind itself.
Rod Serling
The world of reality has its limits; the world of imagination is boundless.
Jean jacques Rousseau
To imagine the unimaginable is the highest use of the imagination.
Cynthia Ozick
To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.
George Jean Nathan
It's great to see new young guys coming through with imagination, creativity that always keeps the dunk alive.
Darryl Dawkins
It's all based on the facts, but there are some things that are unknown, ... It's animated by its own sense of imagination.
Douglas Mcgrath
The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.
Victor Hugo
Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than are the classics.
J. B. S. Haldane
Death is the tyrant of the imagination.
Barry Cornwall
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.
William Warburton
If that's exactly what the creators intended, who can say, but it certainly doesn't take a lot of imagination to see that it's eye-shaped.
John Ricisak
Man is free in his imagination, but bound by his reason.
Israel Lipkin
Yes, it does fire the imagination just being able to imagine.
Alfred Bea
A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
Ada Louise Huxtable
The only war is the war against the human imagination. All other wars are subsumed in it.
Paul Jacob
Very few authors manage to keep selling that well. This is an author that clearly caught the imagination of their generation and then managed to keep capturing the imagination of generations.
Nick James
There was lap dancing with a fair amount of cash floating around the floor with the dancers, leading quickly into sexual acts in a nature so explicit imagination wasn't necessary.
Stephen Doyle
Science does not know its debt to imagination. Goethe did not believe that a great naturalist could exist without this faculty.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Never in my wildest imagination would I have figured this, but we played every game to this intensity level.
Kermit Carolina
Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
Percy Bysshe Shelley
It is feeling and force of imagination that make us eloquent.
Marcus Valerius Martialis
It could be anything. It's up to a person's imagination of what they can make a Colonel.
Damian Breaux
It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.
Leonard Orr
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.
Robert Collier
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
Muhammad Ali
We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.
Judy Garland
It leaves it to the audience's imagination at the end [as the bomb goes off]. It goes blank white. We're living in the blank white and it's definitely not paradise.
Ron Kehrmann
Reading helps me be more creative, it helps my imagination and I like the fact that it gives me some quiet time.
Rey Mysterio
I am amazed to live in such a beautiful country. It is beyond my wildest imagination that it happened so quickly.
Bruce Walker
I can't comprehend it, it's something beyond imagination.
Shaul Goldstein
You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.
David Garrick
It is out of your imagination that the seeds of your success are sown.
Zephyr Bloch jorgensen
[Poetry] is the lava of the imagination whose eruption prevents an earthquake.
Lord Byron
Love doesn't grow on trees like apples in Eden - it's something you have to make. And you must use your imagination too.
Joyce Cary
How much are they able to capture your imagination and your heart? Being tall doesn't necessarily do it.
Cesar Pelli
It's not an uncommon occurrence by any stretch of the imagination.
Sharon Gamble
How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by a cowardly imagination.
Jeremy Collier
The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
George Santayana
It seems that this much-ballyhooed information campaign of the opposition exists only in the imagination of its leaders.
Raul Lambino
We've been very lucky, but we're not out of the woods by any stretch of the imagination.
Joe Colwell
You cannot condemn a man for what may only be a figment of your own imagination.
Stephen King
It is here [in mathematics] that the artist has the fullest scope of his imagination.
Henry Ellis
Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it, forever.
Nadine Gordimer
It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
Martha Gellhorn
A financier is a pawn-broker with imagination.
Arthur Wing Pinero
When temptation knocks, imagination usually answers.
Dan Bennett
To some extent, placebos are about the effect of the human imagination.
Ted Kaptchuk
I don't think we had any fans. It was definitely all baby blue everywhere. That was not a neutral site by any stretch of the imagination.
Jeremy Trueblood
Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work.
Honore De Balzac
One supreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy-imagination that creates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.
Richard Wagner
Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born.
Kahlil Gibran
There are a lot of kids out there that have great talent and we want to help spark their imagination through this.
Catrina Cormell
Before I did that, there was no way to contain your vision. That's why I created a pond 'room' in which the imagination could dwell.
Jack Chandler
We never had any doubt that Harry Potter and his world came from the rich and extraordinary imagination of J.K. Rowling.
Barbara Marcus
With your imagination you can wear (them) from the morning to night.
Issey Miyake
If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude, ... I hope to make you use your imagination.
Hedy Lamarr
What is going to build up the party are new ideas, creativity and imagination.
Jerry Meek
Everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it and the imagination to improvise.
Sylvia Plath
Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
Ian Mcewan
You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.
Charles Keating
Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.
Gilbert Parker
She has no imagination and that means no compassion.
Michael Foot
I listen constantly to classical music and I find that stretches my imagination. I listen to some contemporary and even cutting-edge things.
Bobby Short
The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
Richard Wright
I don't think that by any stretch of the imagination you can say that the cap has contributed to lower prices. In fact, it has led to higher prices.
Jack Suyderhoud
Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.
Jules de Gaultier
What the imagination seizes as beauty must be the truth.
John Keats
That was a wonderful void to let imagination work.
Geraldine Brooks
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.
William Godwin
People can die of mere imagination.
Geoffrey Chaucer
By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.
Dorothea Brande
Yes, in terms of the total football and imagination, ... I had asked for more from certain players and we got that. The front six were fantastic.
John Hartson
It's about human imagination and curiosity. What's out there? What's in the great beyond? What exists at levels we can't see with our five senses?
James Cameron
Being an actor's about imagination and you have to keep extending your imagination.
Dominic Monaghan
The Robin Hood Motel. Use your imagination - it probably was as bad as it sounds. We're really low-budget.
Simon Hauger
I don't think it's blown by, by any stretch of the imagination.
John Fortier
A great wind is blowing, and that gives you either imagination or a headache.
Catherine The Great
I am certain of nothing but the Holiness of the Heart's affections and the Truth of the Imagination.
John Keats
It is just more the types of companies. They don't capture the imagination of the public.
Monica Doss
He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
Washington Irving
Imagination creates reality.
Richard Wagner
Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
Lily Tomlin
It's left up to the imagination what you could provide to the viewer.
Gary Gardner
By no measure of the imagination did we have joint defenses.
Rodney Barnes
Your deeds exceed the power of human imagination. They are without equal in the history of mankind. How can we (the German people) ever thank you?
Leni Riefenstahl
You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.
Azar Nafisi
The price tag could be very little, or it could be beyond our wildest imagination.
David Tokofsky
The sky's the limit. There's no cap on the sky. So use your imagination.
Trimaine Davis
The musical allows you to be transported to a different place, a place often fun and beautiful. It takes your imagination to different levels.
Jeff Buhrman
We haven't seen the worst case scenario by any stretch of the imagination.
Roger Pielke
I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.
Chris Cooper
It's probably beyond my imagination.
Holly Hunter
Memory is so much a part of imagination, so plastic, so wonderfully plastic.
Tracy Kidder
Random words, heard by chance, turn to hard facts in the eyes of a man of imagination, if there's any fire burning in his heart.
Friedrich von Schiller
These characters are the product of a virtuoso act of the imagination.
Neil Gordon
It shows that we have a lot of activity, a lot of imagination and are doing things in an innovative way.
Cyrus Reed
We're offering them the world's imagination.
Andrew Preis
We can do something truly exceptional ... something that demands a new standard of imagination and ambition.
Daniel Doctoroff
I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections and the truth of imagination. What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth - whether it existed before or not.
John Keats
We have found no corruption by the secretary general, ... his behavior has not been exonerated by any stretch of the imagination.
Paul A. Volcker
These images come from the imagination of whites, and it's whites who need to address them.
Susan Morris
Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.
Timothy Spall
Perhaps what we sometimes call "genius" is simply a refusal to altogether let go of childhood imagination.
Michael Cibenko
There's no way around it. Koizumi is a political genius. His creation of the assassin candidates has captured the public's imagination.
Yasunori Sone
They need dress-up clothes, dolls, toy trucks, blocks and other things that get the imagination working.
Rosalind Charlesworth
The capacity you're thinking of is imagination; without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
William Trevor
Does the imagination dwell the most upon a woman won or a woman lost?
William Butler Yeats
The moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images.
Sheila Ballantyne
Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.
Simone Weil
In imagination, there's no limitation.
Mark Victor Hansen
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
W. Somerset Maugham
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