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Image of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Image of Judith Krantz
Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines.
- Judith Krantz
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Image of Thomas Huxley
The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.
- Thomas Huxley
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Image of Bill Moyers
War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
- Bill Moyers
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Image of Edward Abbey
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
- Edward Abbey
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Image of Alfred North Whitehead
Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.
- Alfred North Whitehead
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Image of Joshua Bell
For some reason I can't explain, artist and musicians tend to look younger than our age. Being in music, you need this youthful sense of discovery and wonder for what you're doing and keep your imagination open. That's a youthful way of looking at life and I think that reflects in how you age.
- Joshua Bell
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Image of Missy Elliott
My imagination is so far out there already. People couldn't imagine what goes on in my brain.
- Missy Elliott
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Image of Blaise Pascal
Imagination decides everything.
- Blaise Pascal
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Image of Raymond Carver
A great danger, or at least a great temptation, for many writers is to become too autobiographical in their approach to their fiction. A little autobiography and a lot of imagination are best.
- Raymond Carver
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Image of Janet Jackson
I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.
- Janet Jackson
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Image of Armie Hammer
There are two 'Snow White' movies coming out for the same reason that you remember back in the day there was 'Armageddon' and then 'Deep Impact.' You know, 'Andromeda Strain' and then 'Outbreak.' Like, all of those things. It's common because basically studios have no imagination in making the decisions.
- Armie Hammer
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Image of Steve Lacy
I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.
- Steve Lacy
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Image of Edgar Allan Poe
The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
- Edgar Allan Poe
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Image of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most tell me are 'unbelievable' are those that are most closely based on the real, those least diluted by my imagination.
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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Image of Gary Zukav
The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.
- Gary Zukav
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Image of Danny Boyle
You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.
- Danny Boyle
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Image of Sean Parker
I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.
- Sean Parker
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Image of Susan Sarandon
I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.
- Susan Sarandon
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Image of Tim Robbins
Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.
- Tim Robbins
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Image of Amy Sherald
Imagination allows you to bend the rules of the temporal world.
- Amy Sherald
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Image of Kevin J. Anderson
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.
- Kevin J. Anderson
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Image of James Cameron
Nature's imagination is so boundless compared to our own meager human imagination.
- James Cameron
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Image of Peter Sotos
Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.
- Peter Sotos
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Image of Annie Dillard
Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
- Annie Dillard
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Image of Alan Rickman
One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.
- Alan Rickman
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Image of Henry Miller
Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination.
- Henry Miller
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Image of Robinson Jeffers
Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.
- Robinson Jeffers
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Image of Eddie Marsan
There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
- Eddie Marsan
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Image of Darell Hammond
In an era of parental paranoia, lawsuit mania and testing frenzy, we are failing to inspire our children's curiosity, creativity, and imagination. We are denying them opportunities to tinker, discover, and explore - in short, to play.
- Darell Hammond
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Image of Cornelia Funke
I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.
- Cornelia Funke
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Image of Barkha Dutt
What people, both while voting or while watching television, seek is the same - to know what you stand for and whether you can tell a story that captures their imagination and holds their attention.
- Barkha Dutt
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Image of William Godwin
There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination.
- William Godwin
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Image of Maria Mitchell
We especially need imagination in science.
- Maria Mitchell
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Image of Ben Okri
The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.
- Ben Okri
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Image of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Image of Gaston Bachelard
Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
- Gaston Bachelard
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Image of Andrea Mitchell
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.
- Andrea Mitchell
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Image of Florence Welch
I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.
- Florence Welch
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Image of Rob Bell
Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.
- Rob Bell
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Image of Neil Gaiman
When you're starting off as a young writer, you look at all the stuff that's gone before and the stuff that's influenced you, and you reach the ladle of your imagination into this bubbling stew pot of all of this stuff, and you pour it out. And that's where you start from.
- Neil Gaiman
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Image of Ash Sarkar
The idea of the NHS took root in the political imagination less as an example of social entitlement's victory over private provision, and more as the embodiment of brand Britain.
- Ash Sarkar
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Image of Derek Jacobi
Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.
- Derek Jacobi
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Image of Paul Ryan
Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.
- Paul Ryan
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Image of Geraldine Brooks
There's just so many great stories in the past that you can know a little bit about, but you can't know it all, and that's where imagination can work.
- Geraldine Brooks
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Image of Christopher Paolini
The advantage of writing from experience is that it often provides you with details that you would never think of yourself, no matter how rich your imagination. And specificity in description is something every writer should strive for.
- Christopher Paolini
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Image of Bharati Mukherjee
As a bookish child in Calcutta, I used to thrill to the adventures of bad girls whose pursuit of happiness swept them outside the bounds of social decency. Tess of the d'Urbervilles, Emma Bovary and Anna Karenina lived large in my imagination. The naughty girls of Hollywood films flirted and knew how to drive.
- Bharati Mukherjee
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Image of Kazuo Ishiguro
I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.
- Kazuo Ishiguro
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Image of SZA
When your parents regulate everything you hear and everything you intake, it forces you to get creative in other ways. It sparked the writing bug and the very overactive imagination. Because I've had a lot of time by myself and a lot of time isolated from regular culture, I created my own.
- SZA
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