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Image of James Anthony Froude
A person possessed with an idea cannot be reasoned with.
- James Anthony Froude
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Image of Alexander Chase
The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.
- Alexander Chase
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Image of Francois de La Rochefoucauld
One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Image of Robert Falcon Scott
I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.
- Robert Falcon Scott
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Image of Jose Ortega y Gasset
An idea is a putting truth in check-mate.
- Jose Ortega y Gasset
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Image of Stephen Leacock
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
- Stephen Leacock
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Image of Joseph Conrad
Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.
- Joseph Conrad
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Image of LeVar Burton
Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.
- LeVar Burton
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Image of Danny Boyle
Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. 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 John Irving
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.
- John Irving
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Image of Stephen Lang
In a rehearsal room, your real resource as an actor aren't the things around you; your resources are your imagination and your director and the other actors. In those close quarters, your imagination and your skills are what you turn to.
- Stephen Lang
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Image of Brian Chesky
Think of the imagination as a giant stone from which we carve out new ideas. As we chip away, our new ideas become more polished and refined. But if you start by editing your imagination, you start with a tiny stone.
- Brian Chesky
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Image of Barbara Januszkiewicz
Imagination needs to be fed.
- Barbara Januszkiewicz
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Image of John Millington Synge
Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.
- John Millington Synge
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Image of Barbara Kingsolver
You always need that spark of imagination. Sometimes I'm midway through a book before it happens. However, I don't wait for the muse to descend, I sit down every day and I work when I'm not delivering lambs on the farm.
- Barbara Kingsolver
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Image of Joyce Cary
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
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Image of Al Gore
Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.
- Al Gore
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Image of Rachel Zoe
I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful.
- Rachel Zoe
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Image of John Adams
My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived.
- John Adams
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Image of Michael Haneke
To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup.
- Michael Haneke
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Image of Terry Brooks
I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.
- Terry Brooks
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Image of Amanda Lindhout
The greatest gift you have been given is the gift of your imagination - what do you dream of wanting to do?
- Amanda Lindhout
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Image of Larry McMurtry
You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.
- Larry McMurtry
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Image of Ray Bradbury
Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.
- Ray Bradbury
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Image of Robert Collier
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
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Image of Grace Lee Boggs
I don't know what the next American revolution is going to be like, but we might be able to imagine it if your imagination were rich enough.
- Grace Lee Boggs
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Image of Henri Bergson
You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception.
- Henri Bergson
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Image of Federico Fellini
When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
- Federico Fellini
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Image of Camille Paglia
Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth.
- Camille Paglia
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Image of David Hume
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain.
- David Hume
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Image of Zygmunt Bauman
I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
- Zygmunt Bauman
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Image of Pola Negri
Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination.
- Pola Negri
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Image of Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.
- Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
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Image of Michael Foot
She has no imagination and that means no compassion.
- Michael Foot
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Image of Martellus Bennett
With your imagination, you can go anywhere or do anything, anything is possible.
- Martellus Bennett
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Image of Amelie Nothomb
I will never be one of the happy stupid that were born somewhere. This way of life is excellent for the imagination. It develops your paranoia. You feel paranoid when you don't understand a country, and being paranoiac is excellent for fiction.
- Amelie Nothomb
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Image of Cindy Williams
Growing up in the country, you're left to the wilds of your imagination.
- Cindy Williams
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Image of Richard C. Armitage
I feel like my imagination was crafted by Tolkien. He seemed to tap into that childhood intrigue of secret doors and hidden worlds.
- Richard C. Armitage
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Image of Walter Gropius
Proficiency in a craft is essential to every artist. Therein lies the prime source of creative imagination. Let us then create a new guild of craftsmen without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist!
- Walter Gropius
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Image of Timothy Spall
Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.
- Timothy Spall
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Image of Thomas Sowell
I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals' imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.
- Thomas Sowell
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Image of Malcolm McDowell
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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Image of John Desmond Bernal
The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the animal body before it was human. The intricate connections of mind and body must exceed our imagination, as from our point of view we are peculiarly prevented from observing them.
- John Desmond Bernal
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Image of Philip Roth
Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
- Philip Roth
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Image of Breckin Meyer
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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Image of Wislawa Szymborska
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.
- Wislawa Szymborska
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Image of Hedy Lamarr
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
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Image of Evelyn Underhill
Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.
- Evelyn Underhill
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Image of Mary Wesley
I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.
- Mary Wesley
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