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Quotes About Imagination

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
~ Henry David Thoreau
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
~ James Madison
Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively; unless you can choose a challenge instead of competence.
~ Eleanor Roosevelt
Agatha Christie has given more pleasure in bed than any other woman.
~ Nancy Banks Smith
A great artist can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is... and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be... more than that he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armidillo see that this lovely young girl is still alive, prisoned inside her ruined body.
~ Robert A Heinlein
Intercourse with a woman is sometimes a satisfactory substitute for masturbation. But it takes a lot of imagination to make it work.
~ Karl Kraus
Something that has not been said about the moon? That it gives manicures to women sleepwalkers.
~ Ramón Gómez de la Serna
Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.
~ Marcel Proust
In the meantime, rest well and dream of large women.
~ The Princess Bride
We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that would bring us the pleasure of being a woman, for women have all the qualities courage, passion, the capacity to love, cunning whereas all our imagination can do is naively pile up the illusion of courage.
~ Jean Baudrillard
There is a space between man's imagination and man's attainment that may only be traversed by his longing
~ Kahlil Gibran
The longing to produce great inspirations didn't produce anything but more longing.
~ Sophie Kerr
If you want to build a ship, don't drum up people together to collect wood and don't assign them tasks and work, but rather teach them to long for the endless immensity of the sea
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
We are homesick most for the places we have never known.
~ Carson McCullers
Friends, both the imaginary ones you build for yourself out of phrases taken from a living writer, or real ones from college, and relatives, despite all the waste of ceremony and fakery and the fact that out of an hour of conversation you may have only five minutes in which the old entente reappears, are the only real means for foreign ideas to enter your brain.
~ Nicholson Baker
For all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
~ Pedro Calderon de la Barca
The best love affairs are those we never had
~ Norman Lindsay
Let imagination be like a horse in the wild, living an existence without the boundaries of a barrier. Do what you love and love what you do.
~ Unknown
Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.
~ Ernest Hemingway
When the sky fills with bright colors I look towards the sunset to find you. I imagine you standing there next to me as we watch the sun disappear beyond the horizon. I imagine the soft sweet sound of your voice flowing the mid-summers breeze across the open body of water. And, I imagine the soft touch of your skin as we hold hands for the last time time until I can see you again.
~ Unknown
Love of beauty is taste. The creation of beauty is art.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
If I was an artist, you would be my picture! If I was a poet, you would be my inspiration! If I was a river, you would be my ocean! If I was a Doctor, you would be my permanent patient! If I was an author, you would be my story!
~ Unknown
Growth in love comes from a place of absence, where the imagination is left to its own devices and creates you to be much more than reality would ever allow.
~ Unknown