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The old author knew all too well that the imagination was a top cause for missing good meals.
— S.A. Tawks, The Spirit of Pessimism
But, you must remember, whatever you eat, make sure you have at least one bowl of salad with it.
— S.A. Tawks, The Spirit of Imagination
A woman can never be late when she is meeting with a man. But a man can most certainly be late when he is meeting with a woman.
— S.A. Tawks, The Spirit of Imagination
Her intention was to make the crowd aware, if they weren't already, that John was the giant whose shoulders Emily stood on.
— S.A. Tawks, The Spirit of Pessimism
Thoughts. Your imagination. The voices inside your head. They're all the same thing and spirit is what fuels it.
— S.A. Tawks, The Spirit of Pessimism
This is a strange situation, sir. Perhaps imagination is what we need.
— Stephen Baxter, Ultima
With my sometimes blunt indecent vocabulary & very vivid imagination, I wonder if I should be writing "other" kinds of content.
— April Mae Monterrosa
When you juice books from a library you are taking the history and imagination that has accumulated over so many years there.
— S.A. Tawks, The Spirit of Imagination
It's in my head now. It's a memory. No camera could have captured what I saw and felt.
— S.A. Tawks, The Spirit of Pessimism
If someone knew equally as much about the ins and outs of your home, it would not be your home.
— S.A. Tawks, The Spirit of Imagination
If you work hard all day and all night, something may come of it. You never know, it just might.
— S.A. Tawks, The Spirit of Pessimism
He could tell her that dogs used to look like cats and vice versa without a lick of proof and it would change the way she regarded the animals.
— S.A. Tawks, The Spirit of Imagination
You've got to have high expectations to achieve top results.
— S.A. Tawks, The Spirit of Pessimism
It is that kind of thinking that is the problem; that movies, video games and the Internet, devices that simply amuse the imagination are more interesting than what a library stocks.
— S.A. Tawks, The Spirit of Imagination
Isn't it true that a well-read book seems more alive to you, Ms Rainn?
— S.A. Tawks, The Spirit of Imagination
I don't say Valancy deliberately murdered these lovers as she outgrew them. One simply faded away as another came. Things are very convenient in this respect in Blue Castles.
— L.M. Montgomery, The Blue Castle
Dreams are the flowers of imagination which bloom on the fertile grounds of the mind.
— Debasish Mridha
Close your eyes and open your mind. You will now see the beauty with your imagination.
— Debasish Mridha
What you desire is what you attract to yourself.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
The answers lie in not just hard science or philosophical rhetoric but in experiments of the imagination as well. Human perspective must be re-examined through an almost whimsical fount of imagination of species, magic, and clear creative thinking.
— Leviak B. Kelly, Religion: The Ultimate STD: Living a Spiritual Life without Dogmatics or Cultural Destruction
Inception. Invention. Innovation.
— Imani Nettles
He had found riches beyond worldly imagination. He had found the never ending well of love.
— Soroosh Shahrivar, The Rise of Shams
Your doubt survives by stuffing itself with your confidence.
— S.A. Tawks, The Spirit of Pessimism
Imagination is the only insurance that doesn't cost a thing. However if it's damaged it can be a very costly thing.
— Imani Nettles
WARNING: The production of spirit is a very delicate and dangerous procedure. It should be left to the professionals and under absolutely no circumstance be replicated.
— S.A. Tawks, The Spirit of Imagination
Reading is an activity of the imagination, and the imagination in question is not the writer's alone.
— Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor: A Lively and Entertaining Guide to Reading Between the Lines
Aedan had never felt embarrassed about his imagination. Without it there was no magic.
— Jonathan Renshaw, Dawn of Wonder
[S]urely the Cupid serving him was lefthanded, with a weak chin and no imagination.
— Vladimir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark
We call this a sweet life
—  to have your impact solutes dissolved in the life of people giving them a solution to their life problems... You can imagine how tasty that could be!
War is a kind of superstition, the pageantry of arms and badges corrupts the imagination of men.
— Percy Bysshe Shelley, The Major Works
You are not suffering yesterday or tomorrow. You are only suffering your memory and your imagination.
— Sadghuru
Travel with your thoughts to great land.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of  Wisdom: Great  mind
Here’s what's breaking into my imagination and whatever is in there; that you are not afraid you’ve seen, is yours to take.
— Omar Gamal Said
The devil's weapon is an illusion of our imagination.
— Sunday Adelaja
How could children have spotted what everyone else couldn’t?” “Because we haven’t killed off our imaginations,” Aedan mumbled behind a wrapping of arms and knees.
— Jonathan Renshaw
Imagination is the real magic that exists in this world. Look inwards, to see outwards. And capture it in writing.
— Fennel Hudson, A Writer's Year - Fennel's Journal - No. 3
In the dream world, anything is possible. It requires a fertile imagination, and a desire to explore the half-light between the known and the unknown.
— Fennel Hudson, A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
She had horses who were the blue air of the sky.
— Joy Harjo
When it comes to terror, reality’s got nothing on the power of the imagination[.]
— Fredrik Backman, My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
My books, my paradise!
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
Yet the misty spring rain softened the outline of the mountain across the river and made it even more beautiful. So gentle was the rain that they hardly knew they were getting wet as they strolled back toward the car, not even bothering to put up their umbrella. The slender threads of rain vanished into the river without a ripple. Cherry blossoms were intermingled with young green leaves, the colours of the budding trees all delicately subdued in the rain.
— Yasunari Kawabata
Inside your dream is a nation. To the rest of the world it is invisible, yet it is the only thing you see. It is your imagination.
— J.R. Rim, Better to be able to love than to be loveable
Art is a mirror of time, it must reflect a moment.
— Unarine Ramaru
There open up, deep inside a city, reflected streets, streets which are double, make-believe streets. One's imagination, bewitched and misled, creates illusory maps of the apparently familiar districts, maps in which the streets have their proper places and usual names but are provided with new and fictitious configurations by the inexhaustible inventiveness of the night.
— Bruno Schulz, The Street of Crocodiles
Indigo, the deep blue contains an abundance of sapphires shining their light through the density, awakening and stirring our consciousness. In the daylight the sea will change, but for now it remains mysterious, obtainable through our imagination.
— Jennifer Lynch, SHADES OF KEFALONIA: Meditations
The path you are on is the fabric of imagination, but it is kindled with the fires of hopes and dreams...
— Michael Delaware, Blue and the Magical Forest: The Power of Hopes and Dreams
I think the child I was until 12 was so much more interesting than the teenager I became. As a teenager, you get wrapped up in your friends and sexual stuff, and the imaginative life you had, it just goes. And mine was so rich and fun. Fortunately, I was able to tap back into that later on [through my books] to save my life.
— Judy Blume
You hold one feather tightly in your hand, close your eyes and concentrate. The location of the other feather will appear in your mind and the magic will take you there.
— Louise Courey Nadeau, Magelica's Voyage
Because someone imagined it so we have, if you can imagine it you can release it.
— Newton Kibiringi
I think when you read a book you leave reality behind and enter your mind, where there is imagination that ignites you and that is when you truly are stuck in a good book...
— Jamie Holzheimer
He read vividly.
— David Brooks
A performance does not capture or communicate with the mood and feelings of that very moment.
— Unarine Ramaru
So many people spend years (and money) studying to be doctors, lawyers, actors, dancers, business executives and scientists - when you're an author, you can be any of these things, and you don't need a degree or certificate; all you need is an imagination, a dream and an open mind.
— Rebecca McNutt
The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
Plant the seed of desire in the field of imagination to grow the harvest of invention.
— Debasish Mridha
Plant the seeds of desire in the field of imagination to grow the harvest of invention.
— Debasish Mridha
I know of no other Christianity and of no other Gospel than the liberty both of body & mind to exercise the Divine Arts of ImaginationImagination the real & eternal World of which this Vegetable Universe is but a faint shadow & in which we shall live in our Eternal or Imaginative Bodies, when these Vegetable Mortal Bodies are no more. The Apostles knew of no other Gospel.
— William Blake, Jerusalem
I lay down and started to feel a little depressed about prom. I refused to feel any kind of sadness over the fact that I wasn't going to prom, but I had - stupidly, embarrassingly - thought of finding Margo, and getting her to come home with me just in time for prom, like late on Saturday night, and we'd walk into the Hilton ballroom wearing jeans and ratty T-shirts, and we'd be just in time for the last dance, and we'd dance while everyone pointed at us and marveled at the return of Margo, and then we'd fox-trot the hell out of there and go get ice cream at Friendly's. So yes, like Ben, I harbored ridiculous prom fantasies. But at least I didn't say mine out loud.
— John Green, Paper Towns
You do not marry a woman, but you marry your imagination of her.
— Debasish Mridha
Virtue is imaginative, evil repetitive.
— Dean Koontz, Odd Apocalypse
I think it is because I have a habit, when I am bored or disgusted with people of stepping suddenly into my own world and shutting the door. People resent this -- I suppose it is only natural to resent a door being shut in your face. They call it slyness when it is only self-defense.
— L.M. Montgomery
If you don't think the wheel should be reinvented then you are suffering from the lack of creative imagination.
— Matthew Donnelly
I could spend whole days at Cinecittà. There, I am the greatest director of all time. On the town side, I reshoot the close-ups for Touch of Evil. Down at the beach, I rework the dolly shots for Stagecoach, and offshore I re-create the storm rocking the smugglers of Moonfleet.
— Jean-Dominique Bauby, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The sandy beach reminded Harold of picnics. And the thought of picnics made him hungry. So he laid out a nice simple picnic lunch. There was nothing but pie. But there were all nine kinds of pie that Harold liked best. When Harold finished his picnic there was quite a lot left. He hated to see so much delicious pie go to waste. So Harold left a very hungry moose and a deserving porcupine to finish it up.
— Crockett Johnson, Harold and the Purple Crayon
Knowledge has a materiality, not unlike the materiality of a ladder, that can be used to gain access to places and worlds that were previously unimaginable.
— Lana Wachowski
George Banks and all he stands for will be saved. Maybe not in life, but in imagination. Because that's what we storytellers do. We restore order with imagination. We instill hope again and again and again.
— Walt Disney Company, Saving Mr Banks the Official Multi Touch Book
When you imagine it, feel it, then write it - creation is inevitable.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Vesta was so good with paperwork – you could hand her a file of drab, seemingly dull information and she’d construct a story from it worthy of a novel. 
— Sara Sheridan, British Bulldog
Efficiency was a higher priority than imagination.
— Adam Christopher, The Burning Dark
With newborns becomes new imagination into new wisdom and knowledge.
— Matthew Donnelly
Love releases us into the realm of divine imagination, where the soul is expanded and reminded of its unearthly cravings and needs. We think that when a lover inflates his loved one he is failing to acknowledge her flaws - "Love is blind." But it may be the other way around. Love allows a person to see the true angelic nature of another person, the halo, the aureole of divinity. Certainly from the perspective of ordinary life this is madness and illusion. But if we let loose our hold on our philosophies and psychologies of enlightenment and reason, we might learn to appreciate the perspective of eternity that enters life as madness, Plato's divine frenzy.
— Thomas   Moore, Care of the Soul: Guide for Cultivating Depth and Sacredness in Everyday Life
I'm a naked mind, in a covered body.
— Sara Keddar
When we were that young we invented the world, no one could tell us a thing.
— Audrey Niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry
Dream on it, think on it, ink on it, speak on it... then proceed to bring on it. Fulfillment is ordered to find you. Shine time!
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
Those for whom the world is not enough: saints, conquerors, poets, and all lovers of books.
— Joseph Joubert, The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert
The Spirit, and your soul are not the same things. The Spirit is God - the source. Your soul is God's imagination.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
We live our thoughts and manifest them in our attitudes toward ourselves and others. We cannot live beyond our thoughts and convictions.
— Israelmore Ayivor, Leaders' Watchwords
There is a point in the imagination of a creative man when the wrong thing is correct almost simply because it is wrong.
— Gerald Weaver, Gospel Prism
the imagination of a child is the most precious gift we can share
— C.L.       Bennett, Bugglepuffs and the Magic Key
But it would have been a surprise, not only to katherine herself, if some magic watch could have taken count of the moments spent in an entirely different occupation from her ostensible one.Sitting with faded papers before her, she took part in a series of scenes such as the taming of wild ponies upon the American prairies, or the conduct of a vast ship in a hurricane round a black promontory of rock, or in others more peaceful, but marked by her complete emancipation from her present surroundings and, needles to say, her surprising ability in her new vocation.
— Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
I wish we lived in a world where we'd be able to survive off our talents not money
— Jill Telford
But it would have been a surprise, not only to Katherine herself, if some magic watch could have taken count of the moments spent in an entirely different occupation from her ostensible one.Sitting with faded papers before her, she took part in a series of scenes such as the taming of wild ponies upon the American prairies, or the conduct of a vast ship in a hurricane round a black promontory of rock, or in others more peaceful, but marked by her complete emancipation from her present surroundings and, needless to say, her surprising ability in her new vocation.
— Virginia Woolf, Night and Day
Scribble out the world since it was not to your liking and make up a new one, something better.
— Alice McDermott, Child of My Heart
There was a time when that kind of thing looked like the kingdom of heaven, but somewhere along the line it had lost its glow. Maybe that was just the cost of growing up. And maybe the cost of growing up was too high.
— James P. Blaylock, Night Relics
Sketch what you got, it will determine what you will be.
— Sakin Maharjan
Until one expands his imagination, abilities and capacity to do and receive, he will always have the crumbs from those who dare to do great works
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
He had always had a gift for conjuring images in his mind's eye. It was one of the secrets of his military success.
— H.W. Brands, The Man Who Saved the Union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace
I am going to add a cold beer. Why not a bottle of whiskey? Because my story is cheap and cannot afford such props. Goddamn, even my imagination is not wealthy enough to order a bottle of Jack!
— Plamen Chetelyazov, Flaws of Oblivion
I want something new. I want something I’ve never seen or heard or imagined. I want a spark. I want to be ignited. I want my flesh scorched and imagination set ablaze.
— Michael Soll, Scorched
It is not in the gene of an Intellectually blinded person to experience the paradise in the writer's imagination.
— Michael Bassey Johnson
The problem with classical disembodied scientific realism is that it takes two intertwined and inseparable dimensions of all experience - the awareness of the experiencing organism and the stable entities and structures it encounters - and erects them as separate and distinct entities called subjects and objects. What disembodied realism ... misses is that, as embodied, imaginative creatures, we never were separated or divorced from reality in the first place. What has always made science possible is our embodiment, not our transcendence of it, and our imagination, not our avoidance of it.
— George Lakoff, Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought
Daydream. Because you can't accomplish what you've never fully imagined.
— Richelle E. Goodrich, Making Wishes
The world is a perfect design. If we can see it. If we can see ourselves and our surroundings. A vast sky held up by pillars. A carpet of earth that gives us all the food and fruit and nourishment we need to live. Animals of every species. Some that we can ride, some that we can eat, some that can help us in our work. They have specific duties.You can't tie a lion to a cart.They have all been placed here as means for us to see our inner natures. Just because we are dressed like human beings doesn't exempt us from having animal tendencies. The mouse in us that steals a little bit from here and there. The vain peacock that grooms himself all the time. The sly fox. The stubborn donkey that closes his ear to the name of Allah. The scorpion that stings. These are all in us.
— Shems Friedlander
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.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Money can take you many places, but imagination can take you anywhere.
— Donald L. Hicks, Look into the stillness
If I wholly unleash my imagination and forcefully stretch it out beyond its own edges, even at such a point I can only imagine a thin shard of this most immense God. And even though it is but a thin shard, it will nonetheless be mesmerizingly colossal.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The great writers are great as they have big workshop of imagination.
— Kishore Bansal
The four cornerstones of character on which the structure of this nation was built are: Initiative, Imagination, Individuality and Independence.
— Edward Rickenbacker
Imagination releases power to achieve goals.
— Kishore Bansal
Art serves a purpose. It expands our horizons, frees our minds, and opens us up to new experiences. It opens the imagination. All these great discoveries of our time — without the desire to reach beyond our boundaries, we would be forever stagnant. The folly is in closing one’s eyes and not recognizing it.
— Carol Oates, Something Wicked
Dream extravagantly, for God has imbued us with ample imagination to dream out to and across the very periphery of the impossible.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Material creation begins in a tiny corner of a large island called imagination.
— Stella Mowen, Until the Beat Stops
People are different in reality from the way you've seen them while making scenarios in your mind. For one thing, they're less consistent. They surprise you all the time.
— Ruth Rendell, The Water's Lovely
His urbane brain cut the most magnificent capers, as, chloroformed by fatigue, it directed its incoming perceptions along the most absurd paths and enjoyed the utter senselessness of its associations.
— Gerhard Roth, The Will To Sickness
Knowledge is life with wings but imagination is the soul of those wings..!
— zia
Violence begins when imagination fails.
— Stephen Evans
Much is imagination, more is truth, but which is which I scarcely can tell myself.
— L. Adams Beck
I walk in and out of several worlds every day.
— Joy Harjo
I love knowing that people now own a piece of a world that I created.
— Ainsley Peace
Books allowed my imagination to take flight and it hasn’t landed yet
— Lynn Payne
Gaming was "one of the only times when you only have to focus on one thing." But even more than that, "It's like an anchor. As long as I know it's there, it's part of me. It's some form of continuity that in my life I desperately need.
— Alexandra Robbins, The Geeks Shall Inherit the Earth: Popularity, Quirk Theory and Why Outsiders Thrive After High School
We have regiments as innumerable as the sands...And arsenals as uncountable as the stars.
— A.G. Howard, Ensnared
He's got to have the ability, and it seems to be fairly rare, to see things as they are and at the same time as they might have been. What we mean is the eye of an artist.
— Jack Finney, Time and Again
Life for both sexes--and I looked at them, shouldering their way along the pavement--is arduous, difficult, a perpetual struggle. It calls for gigantic courage and strength. More than anything, perhaps, creatures of illusion as we are, it calls for confidence in oneself. Without self-confidence we are as babes in the cradle. And how can we generate this imponderable quality, which is yet so invaluable, most quickly? By thinking that other people are inferior to oneself. By feeling that one has some innate superiority-- it may be wealth, or rank, a straight nose, or the portrait of a grandfather by Romney-- for there is no end to the pathetic devices of the human imagination-- over other people.
— Virginia Woolf, A Room of One's Own
My imagination is as rich as my bank account is empty.
— Dean Koontz, Brother Odd
She held up the pen and gave him a lazy grin. "It's a rose."He came close. "It's a pen." He tried to pluck it from her hand."You are seriously lacking in imagination.
— Ronie Kendig, Operation Zulu Redemption: Act of Treason - Part 4
5-4-10 Tuesday 8:00 A.M. Made a large batch of chili and spaghetti to freeze yesterday. And some walnut fudge! Relieved the electricity is still on.  It’s another beautiful sunny day with fluffy white clouds drifting by. The last cloud bank looked like a dog with nursing pups. I open the window and let in some fresh air filled with the scent of apple and plum blossoms and flowering lilacs. Feels like it’s close to 70 degrees. There’s a boy on a skate board being pulled along by his St. Bernard, who keeps turning around to see if his young friend is still on board. I’m thinking of a scene still vividly displayed in my memory. I was nine years old. I cut through the country club on my way home from school and followed a narrow stream, sucking on a jawbreaker from Ben Franklins, and I had some cherry and strawberry pixie straws, and banana and vanilla taffy inside my coat pocket. The temperature was in the fifties so it almost felt like spring. There were still large patches of snow on the fairways in the shadows and the ground was soggy from the melt off. Enthralled with the multi-layers of ice, thin sheets and tiny ice sickles gleaming under the afternoon sun, dripping, streaming into the pristine water below, running over the ribbons of green grass, forming miniature rapids and gently flowing rippling waves and all the reflections of a crystal cathedral, merging with the hidden world of a child. Seemingly endless natural sculptures. Then the hollow percussion sounds of the ice thudding, crackling under my feet, breaking off little ice flows carried away into a snow-covered cavern and out the other side of the tunnel. And I followed it all the way to bridge under Maple Road as if I didn't have a care in the world.
— Andrew Neff, The Mind Game Company: The Players
Maybe she would have done more good as a playwright than as a doctor, after all — clichés were like plaque in the arteries of the imagination, they clogged the sense of what was possible. Maybe if enough people had worked to demolish clichés, the world wouldn't have ended.
— Charlie Jane Anders
The ability to go anywhere in our imagination is a pure expression of individual freedom. It is a creative force that can help us transcend reality.
— Esther Perel
Gathering your own reference materials, sketches and using your own imagination is going to help you grow as an artist far more than stealing someone else's work.
— Bonnie Hamlin
Laughter and imagination can overcome any ill-felt sensations.
— Stanley Victor Paskavich, Stantasyland: Quips Quotes and Quandaries
Luck and nature shapes our imagination.
— Kishore Bansal
The daring leader helps the people see a future state, greater than their own imagination, and worthy of pursuit.
— Cheryl A. Bachelder, Dare to Serve: How to Drive Superior Results by Serving Others
For Arthur, words gathered in waterfall thoughts that spilled off the page into the pools of imaginaton collecting in his head.
— Christopher Scotton, The Secret Wisdom of the Earth
Humanities are the instructors of enchantment.
— David Brooks
Oh, here we are at the bridge. I'm going to shut my eyes tight. I'm always afraid going over bridges. I can't help imagining that perhaps, just as we get to the middle, they'll crumple up like a jackknife and nip us. So I shut my eyes. But I always have to open them for all when I think we're getting near the middle. Because, you see, if the bridge did crumple up I'd want to see it crumple. What a jolly rumble it makes! I always like the rumble part of it. Isn't it splendid there are so many things to like in this world?
— L.M. Montgomery
I thought to myself how much more welcome a faculty the imagination would be if we could tell when it was at work and when not.
— Kingsley Amis, The Green Man
Ambition is what gives birth to imagination and then imagination directs the bearing towards its pursuit.
— Newton Gatambia
Marin believes love is better in the chase than caught,’ she says. He raises his eyebrows. ‘That does not surprise me. It is not better. But it is easier. One’s imagination is always more generous. And yet, the chase always tires you out in the end.
— Jessie Burton, The Miniaturist
...Because a book is a little empathy machine. It puts you inside somebody else’s head. You see out of the world through somebody else’s eyes. It’s very hard to hate people of a certain kind when you’ve just read a book by one of those people.
— Neil Gaiman
A woman is a loving mother, a gorgeous daughter, and beautiful angel of imagination.
— Debasish Mridha
A man wants to see a woman as an angel of imagination, but a woman wants to prove that she is a person.
— Debasish Mridha
Happiness is there when you have great imagination and vision, when you take relentless action and love your creation.
— Debasish Mridha
You always have to defend the imagination against idiots.
— Ursula K. Le Guin
…the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.
— Richard Feynman, What Do You Care What Other People Think?
We are limited only by our imagination and our will to act.
— Ron Garan, The Orbital Perspective: Lessons in Seeing the Big Picture from a Journey of 71 Million Miles
Imagination is the queen of truth, and possibility is one of the regions of truth. She is positively akin to infinity.
— Charles Baudelaire
A hallucination is to be in the presence of that which previously could not be imagined, and if it previously could not be imagined then there is no grounds for believing that you generated it out of yourself.
— Terence McKenna
Upgrading one's imagination about what is possible is always a leap of faith.
— Clay Shirky, Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age
The Subconscious mind can not tell the difference between what's real and what's imagined.
— Bob Proctor
There are known knowns, things we know that we know; and there are known unknowns, things that we know we don't know. But there are also unknown unknowns, things we do not know we don't know.
— Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown: A Memoir
Your dreams and your imagination are the keys to ART so capture all of yours in this notebook.....
— T.A. Richards
Napoleon Hill said "The Imagination is the most powerful most miraculous inconceivably powerful force that the world's ever known
— Bob Proctor
To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we "know" that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
— Wendell Berry, It All Turns on Affection: The Jefferson Lecture and Other Essays
People often get their imagination's mixed up with their memories.
— P.K. Shaw
We represent the true human condition, the one permanent victory over cruelty and chaos. . . . Our true home is the imagination, and our kingdom is the wide-open world.
— Lemony Snicket, Shouldn't You Be in School?
The man who has no imagination has no wings.
In my mind, Martha, you are buried in cement right up to your neck. No… right up to your nose… that’s much quieter.
— Edward Albee
There was something comforting about believing in things that didn’t exist.
— A. Lynn, Itsy's Ugly
If you think of religion as something that offers a picture of something more grand than us, reading does the same thing. Reading enables us to lift ourselves from our current situation to something higher – and better. It expands one’s own imagination.
— Meshack Asare
Ridges of muscle on his stomach rose under his skin like divisions on a slab of chocolate. He held her close by the light of an oil lamp, and he shone as though he had been polished with a high-wax body polish.
— Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
Texts on a lifeless strings of facts, but the keys to unlocking the character of human beings, people with likes and dislikes, diocese and foibles, errors and convictions. Words have texture and shape, and it is their almost tactile quality that leads readers to sculpt images of the writers who use them. These images are then interrogated, mocked, congratulated, or dismissed, depending on the context of the reading and the disposition of the reader.
— Sam Wineburg
Mathematicians enjoy thinking about the simplest possible things, and the simplestpossible things are imaginary.
— Paul Lockhart
Life is a dream made real through the power of our imaginations.
— Orrin Woodward
We are to turn our backs for a space upon the insistent examination of the thing that is, and face towards the freer air, the ampler spaces of the thing that perhaps might be.
— H.G. Wells
Longterm success begins with the longterm imagination to envision the life you've always wanted.
— Orrin Woodward
A poet has to be a bit childlike at heart, and in that sense all the romantic stereotypes about poets being "eternal children", etc, are all accurate. They believe, whatever they may say, that art and words can change the world.
— John Thomas Allen
correlation between the growing lack of respect for ideas and the imagination and the increasing gap between rich and poor in America, reflected not just in the gulf between the salaries of CEOs and their employees but also in the high cost of education, the incredible divide between private and public schools that makes all of the fine speeches by our policy makers— most of whom send their children to private schools anyway, just as they enjoy the benefits and perks of their jobs as servants of the people— all the more insidious and insincere.
— Azar Nafisi, The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books
Your imagination will lead you to where you ought to be.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!
The imagination is our final advantage as a species, a place to safely (and happily) explore experiences that are far from safe and far from happy. “Dracula” and “The Fly” may delight and appall in equal measure, but they also gently prepare us, helping us to think about how we would respond if faced with a terrifying seduction, or a corrupted and infected body.
— Joe Hill
The Romans were a strong power before Virgil, but the Greeks had captured their imaginations. While Rome conquered physical Greece, Greek mythology had enveloped Rome. The Empire coul be confident in itself until a Roman poet matched Homer and harmonized Greek civilization with Roman ideals
— John Mark Reynolds, The Great Books Reader: Excerpts and Essays on the Most Influential Books in Western Civilization
You can't achieve what you can't imagine being done
— A.M.M Alusi
Don’t jail your imagination. You cannot imagine beyond your desires. You can't unleash your imagination without the SEEDs of desire.
— Assegid Habtewold, The 9 Cardinal Building Blocks: For Continued Success in Leadership
The broadest possible exercise of imagination is the thing most conducive to human health, individual and global
— Marilynne Robinson, When I Was a Child I Read Books
Texts are not "processed" as much as they are resurrected, and the image of reader and information processor or computer device, which often dominates current discussions of reading, seems less apt than another metaphor: the reader as necromancer.
— Sam Wineburg, Historical Thinking and Other Unnatural Acts: Charting the Future of Teaching the Past
Had I been able to formulate my first impressions of the United States, I might have said that there was a place in America called Kansas, where people could find a magic land at the heart of a cyclone.
— Azar Nafisi, The Republic of Imagination: America in Three Books
Great imaginations are the breeding ground for great accomplishments!Great imaginations are like horses, they need guidance and proper nurturing, only then do they offer the world of adventure they promise.
— Marilynn Dawson
I imagine the whole universe moving into hell because of licking God's candy.
— Michael Bassey Johnson, Classic Quotations From The Otherworlds
Every book is a world.
— Gabrielle Zevin, The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry
Laws of silence don't work....When something is festering in your memory or your imagination, laws of silence don't work, it's just like shutting a door and locking it on a house on fire in hope of forgetting that the house is burning. But not facing a fire doesn't put it out. Silence about a thing just magnifies it. It grows and festers in silence, becomes malignant....
— Tennessee Williams, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Whatever man imagines is possible
— Julie Andrews Edwards, The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
The gift of imagination is by no means an exclusive property of the artist; it is a gift we all share; to some degree or other all of us are endowed with the powers of fantasy, the dullest of dullards among us has the gift of dreams at night - visions and yearnings and hopes. Everyone can also think; it is the quality thought that makes the difference - not just the quality of logical thinking, but of imaginative thinking. And our greatest thinkers, those who have radically changed our world, have always arrived at their truths by dreaming them; they are first fantasized, and only then subjected to proof.
— Leonard Bernstein
I could burn this place downAs many times as I'd like in my mind,Without any sympathy For the girl or her motherWho live beneath me
— Matthew Little, Hell in a Basket: A small collection of personal poems.
Imagination makes people oversensitive,vulnerable and exposed. Perhaps it's a form of degeneracy. I have never held the shortcomings of the unimaginative against them. Sometimes I've even envied them: they have an easier and more pleasant life than everyone else.
— Marlen Haushofer, The Wall
There is only one possible road you can take,' he said, 'and that is t go by way of your imagination.
— Julie Andrews Edwards, The Last of the Really Great Whangdoodles
Live each day to the fullness, live the life that you imagine.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Imagination of a place, attracted the possibility of my travel to the place.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, The Alphabets of  Success: Passion Driven Life
Because “we human beings are imaginative by nature, we cannot choose to live by the routine of the ant-heap. If deprived of the imagery of virtue” — imaginative depictions of the truly good life — “we will seek out the imagery of vice.
— Russell Kirk, The Conservative Mind: From Burke to Eliot
I have travel to the places I have been because, I had a vivid imagination of the places.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, The Alphabets of  Success: Passion Driven Life
Without an imagination we would be irreparably shackled to what is, and never be released to what could be.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I would suggest that our imagination is a tiny shard of God’s infinite genius that we have within us simply because we were created in God’s image.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
The greatest imagination in all of existence is one that would be able to take ‘nothing’ and imagine ‘something’ from ‘nothing.’ And that is God.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Imagination is a sacred place.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The part of the brain that isn't automatic is an imagining machine, feeling all possibilities of feelings: it keeps pushing its way into this marshy, pleasant terrain. You struggle against that push, and start to feel your stomach protest. It's not so much even a type of seriousness as it is a circumstance, into which you pass by slow degrees. I've never seen this sufficiently examined. It mutates into a less-unreal reality that still seems different, somehow, than being fully present. Self hate is rarely unconditional.
— Darin Strauss, Half a Life
And once their imaginations are liberated, they begin glimpse the grand interconnectedness of all things. Eternity begins to peek out from behind the everyday things and they see the trappings of any earthly moment as the stage and props for Heaven to reveal itself. There is now nothing ordinary. Everything is being used and spun out for His vast scheme and in His eternal economy, nothing is wasted. Suddenly, all the myriad moments and minutiae of a lifetime show their orchestration —there was nothing that did not lead to this! They look over all their time to find that His redemption has always been rushing, swooping, swerving through their experience, racing to and fro to intervene and infuse Grace.
— Geoffrey Wood
When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.
— Geoffrey Wood
The power of imagination is a miracle.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The body was an organic machine, period, and God was a figment of its fitful imagination.
— Paul Russell, The Coming Storm
The present is not so glorious but that I should wish to dwell a little in the past.
— Emmuska Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel
He hurried to car and set off home, hoping he was imagining things, which he had never hoped before, because he didn't approve of imagination.
— J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Write it down and it will come alive.
— Efrat Israeli, Her Promised Road
Childhood is a human water, a water which comes out of the shadows. This childhood in the mists and glimmers, this life in the slowness of limbo gives us a certain layer of births. What a lot of beings we have begun! What a lot of lost springs which have nevertheless, flowed! Reverie toward our past then, reverie looking for childhood seems to bring back lives which which have never taken place, lives which have been imagined. Reverie is a mnemonics of the imagination. In reverie we re-enter into contact with possibilities which destitute has not been able to make use of.
— Gaston Bachelard
Use your imagination not to scare you to death but to inspire you to live.
— Shannon Leto
Beyond the boundaries of herself, her parents and the enclosing garden walls, were open fields and other waiting places she still knew nothing of – lies of the land, perhaps. What Katie did know is that out there in the lonely nowhere was a special quietness, free of the sounds of daytime birds or foxes at night – and that it was a quietness she might like to listen to one day.
— Carla H. Krueger, Sleeping with the Sun
The key for any speaker is to establish his own point of view for the audience, so they can see the game through his eyes.
— Ronald Reagan
A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.
The landscape of the mind, against which our thoughts and expectations move, when the wind of the imagination is active, changes as quickly as the clouds; and indeed it consists often of several landscapes, semi-transparent and showing through one another.
— William Hurrell Mallock, In an Enchanted Island Or A Winter's Retreat In Cyprus
Radio was theater of the mind.
— Ronald Reagan
The only limit on your dreams is your imagination.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
On some days she was able to see both sun and moon at the same time. Like feuding cousins, they hung in two corners of the vast world-ceiling refusing to look at one another. The moon was always harder to spot and more faded, but it was there if you looked, as many things were.
— Carla H. Krueger, Sleeping with the Sun
You can use your imagination to get exactly what you desire.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Step aboard and we will fly through the window, through the sky
— Brian Wildsmith, Carousel
Let’s pursue the visage of imagination
— Munia Khan
Your imagination will take you to places.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The bulk of the world's knowledge is an imaginary construction.
— Helen Keller
The books my mother read and reread provided a broader, more adventurous world, and escape from the confines of her chronic illness. Her interior life was enriched even as her physical life contracted. If she couldn't change the reality of her situation, she could change her perception of it. She could enter into the lives of the characters in her books, sharing their journeys while she remained seated in her chair.
— Doris Kearns Goodwin, Wait Till Next Year
The universe does not know whether the vibration that you're offering is because of something you're observing or something you're remembering or something that you are imagining. It just receives the vibration and answers it with things that match it.
— Abraham Hicks
To enter a theatre for a performance is to be inducted into a magical space, to be ushered into the sacred arena of the imagination.
— Simon Callow, Charles Dickens and the Great Theatre of the World
The sound of her phone shocked her out of the dark world that was currently playing in front of her eyes from the book in her lap. She wondered sometimes, why she bothered with books. If she wanted to hallucinate, all she had to do was get up in the morning.
— Allie Burke, Paper Souls
What we talk about less often, because it is harder to explain, is the way a perfume can give breath and body to the phantom selves that waft about us as we go through our days -- not just the showgirl, the femme fatale, and the ingenue, but all the memories and dreams of the taller, meaner, sharper, sweeter, softer people we have been or long to be.
— Alyssa Harad, Coming to My Senses: A Story of Perfume, Pleasure, and an Unlikely Bride
Writing is the light of imagination playing over shadow of thoughts.
— Khaled Talib
You can't teach a child what to dream, but you can teach them how to dream. #imagination
— K. Lamb
The idea is to spin the wheel of metaphors and images until sparks of associations begin to fly for the reader.
— Charles Simic
My imagination longs to dash ahead and plan developments; but I have noticed that when things happen in one's imagination, they never happen in one's life.
— Dodie Smith
Anyone can take an adventure even if it's only in your own backyard. Let your imagination be your adventure and see where it takes you.
— Carmela Dutra
It is often simply from lack of creative imagination that we do not go far enough in suffering.
— Marcel Proust, Sodom and Gomorrah
Mister Win-Win says it's always okay to pretend. He says that's the only way to feel happy sometimes.
— Lauren Cagliola Green, Home
I am a daydreamer.. I daydream a lot, and thus is when my wicked imagination emerges to bleed upon my paper...
— Jamie Edson
Imagine our imaginations were limited only to the limitless. Still, it wouldn't matter without a motivation to move.
— Ryan Lilly
The curse of imagination is picturing the world as it should be.
— Morley
Today's make believe is tomorrow's creativity.
— K. Lamb
Virtual worlds are places of imagination that encompass practices of play, performance, creativity and ritual.
— Tom Boellstorff, Ethnography and Virtual Worlds: A Handbook of Method
We tend to think of imagination and foresight like we are prone to think of life (sometimes) -- as an inscrutable flash of something from the outside that magically takes us over some large boundary in one atomic step. We even call it a flash (of insight), a eureka moment, a light bulb in our heads that suddenly turns on. But if you reflect on this phenomenon for a moment, you know you don't go suddenly from a blank mind to a fully formed solution. You were already thinking about the problem, and other near solutions that don't work, when suddenly you see a new connection that enables you to reuse familiar things on a novel way. Insight comes in small increments, leveraging what was already there.
— M.., The Meaning(s) of Life: A Human's Guide to the Biology of Souls
Mister Win-Win says it's always okay to pretend... He says that's the only way to feel happy sometimes.
— Lauren Cagliola Green, Home
The Kingdom of Heaven is within and it lies beyond your wildest imagination, so expect a roller coaster ride to get there!
— Carl Painter, To Be: An Inspiration
Don't harness a child's imagination, encourage it so it knows no bounds!
— K. Lamb
What I wanted to express very clearly and intensely was that the reason these people had to invent or imagine heroes and gods is pure fear. Fear of life and fear of death.
— Frida Kahlo
I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry quietude over it. I was alone but not lonely. I was a queen in halls of fancy.
— L.M. Montgomery, Emily's Quest
I can breathe easier now that the appointments are behind me.I missed them all, through deliberate negligence,Having waited for the urge to go, which I knew wouldn’t come.I’m free, and against organized, clothed society.I’m naked and plunge into the water of my imagination.
— Fernando Pessoa
Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had.
— Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
If I have been given any gift in this life, it’s my ability to live simultaneously in the rational world and the world of imagination.
— Tom Robbins, Tibetan Peach Pie: A True Account of an Imaginative Life
The influence of early books is profound. So much of the future lies on the shelves. Early reading has more influence than any religious teaching.
— Graham Greene, A Sort Of Life
When the white arm rests upon the knee it is a triangle; now it is upright - a column; now a fountain, falling. It makes no sign, it does not beckon, it does not see us. Behind it roars the sea. It is beyond our reach. Yet there I venture. There I go to replenish my emptiness, to stretch my nights and fill them fuller and fuller with dreams. And for a second even now, even here, I reach my object and say, “Wander no more. All is trial and make-believe. Here is the end.
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Visionary Fiction speaks the language of the soul. It offers a vision of humanity as we dream it could be.
— Jodine Turner
To hide away from the world whose loveless heart has gone astrayand its inhabitants what could be a safer place than my imagination?
— Anna Jae
Violence is for those who have lost their imagination.
— Shane Claiborne, The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
It is obvious that an imagined world, however different it may be from the real one, must have something - a form - in common with it.
— Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus