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Some might think that the creativity, imagination, and flights of fancy that give my life meaning are insanity.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
If I tell the audience what they should think, then I am robbing them of their own imagination and their own capacity of deciding what's important to them.
~ Michael Haneke
Everyone thinks I must have been an ace in school. But I didn't work hard, I was lazy. I liked to be lazy. I thought laziness stimulated your imagination.
~ Christiane Nusslein-Volhard
One siupreme fact which I have discovered is that it is not willpower, but fantasy and imagination that ceates. Imagination is the creative force. Imagination creates reality.
~ Richard Wagner
Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.
~ Mark Twain
Research, though toilsome, is easy; imagination, though delightful, is difficult.
~ A. C. Bradley
The aim of science is not things themselves, as the dogmatists in their simplicity imagine, but the relation between things.
~ Henri Poincare
I don't have much of an imagination, but I have a mind bank of details, which I play with. It's how I daydream, so writing like that is natural for me.
~ Sefi Atta
The failure of modern living is the failure of the imagination...Literature is the royal road that enables us to enter the realm of the imagination.
~ Julius Lester
I have always said that archival images are images without imagination. They petrify thought and kill any power of evocation.
~ Claude Lanzmann
The Right Honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
~ Richard Brinsley Sheridan
If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.
~ Bruce Greenwood
Imagination, of course, can open any door - turn the key and let terror walk right in.
~ Truman Capote, In Cold Blood
When Randolph Carter was thirty he lost the key of the gate of dreams.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don't have a problem with it because of the way this character's been written.
~ Jeri Ryan
SPOOKER, n. A writer whose imagination concerns itself with supernatural phenomena, especially in the doings of spooks.
~ Ambrose Bierce
I don't understand the process of imagination-though I know that I am very much at its mercy.
~ Joseph Heller
To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.
~ Jane Austen
Castle is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
~ Nathan Fillion
I was very attracted to the way that Zen did not go into the imagination land. And now I've forgotten what your first question was and how we were going to tie this together.
~ Brad Warner
The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks.
~ Henry James
It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.
~ Thomas Harris
Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.
~ Ani DiFranco
A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness
~ Dean Koontz