680 private quotes tagged imagination

“I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.” — Chris Brown

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“Imagination is at the root of much that passes for love.” — Gilbert Parker

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“I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.” — Simon Pegg

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“Some stories are true that never happened.” — Elie Wiesel

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“I believed in myself. I never imagined myself as just an ordinary player.” — Imran Khan

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“It is the eye of ignorance that assigns a fixed and unchangeable color to every object beware of this stumbling block.” — Paul Gauguin

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“I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.” — Duane Michals

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“Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.” — Stephen Leacock

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“I am better able to imagine hell than heaven it is my inheritance, I suppose.” — Elinor Wylie

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“I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.” — Ursula K. Le Guin

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“I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.” — Calvin Trillin

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“We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.” — Anne Sullivan Macy

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“The imagination is man's power over nature.” — Wallace Stevens

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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.” — L. Frank Baum

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“What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.” — Kerry Thornley

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“The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.” — Alexander Chase

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“Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.” — Lionel Stander

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“With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.” — Theodore Gericault

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“Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality.” — Irving Howe

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“When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.” — Rhona Mitra

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“We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.” — Ariel Dorfman

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“Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.” — Janet Frame

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“I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.” — Breckin Meyer

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“I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.” — Malcolm McDowell

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“Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.” — Jacques Maritain

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