3 December 2020 Andrew Wyeth I can’t work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth and then I can fly free.
3 December 2020 Garry Trudeau I’ve never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.
3 December 2020 Jack Prelutsky Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.
3 December 2020 Robert Carlyle I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.
3 December 2020 Joshua Foer Many memory techniques involve creating unforgettable imagery, in your mind’s eye. That’s an act of imagination. Creating really weird imagery really quickly was the most fun part of my training to compete in the U.S. Memory Competition.
3 December 2020 Sofia Kovalevskaya Many who have had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confuse it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.
3 December 2020 David Garrick You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.
3 December 2020 James Merrill And, as I have said, it’s made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren’t external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.
3 December 2020 Patty Duke I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.
3 December 2020 Joseph Addison Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed.
3 December 2020 Lionel Trilling There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
3 December 2020 Roger McGuinn But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.
3 December 2020 John Burroughs To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
3 December 2020 Curtis Sittenfeld People who think my books are autobiographical, which they’re not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination.
3 December 2020 Teena Marie I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I’ll never lose my imagination and my passion. That’s really what it is. I’m still passionate about what I do.
3 December 2020 John Adams Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination – everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.
3 December 2020 Carl Sagan Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.
3 December 2020 Walt Disney Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
3 December 2020 Charles Horton Cooley If we divine a discrepancy between a man’s words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.
3 December 2020 James Van Der Beek I’ve never really had a problem with the imagination level of an audience. They’re always smarter and savvier than any studio exec will give them credit for.
3 December 2020 Doris Lessing What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, ‘Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,’ reducing it to a simple formula.
3 December 2020 James L. Farmer, Jr. Anyone who said he wasn’t afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn’t shake but inside I was shaking.
3 December 2020 Matthew Ashford I don’t know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I’m glad he’s coming back. It’s going to be good for the show.
3 December 2020 Idris Elba There’s the argument that you can relate to someone who’s completely unrelatable. In the way that a director shows you his imagination on a film, then I get to show you my imagination in a big dumb character.
3 December 2020 Beverly Cleary I don’t necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that’s most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
3 December 2020 Jarvis Cocker Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it’s some kind of quality isn’t it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.
3 December 2020 Thomas Kinkade The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.
