3 December 2020 Harry S. Truman America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
3 December 2020 Percival Lowell Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.
3 December 2020 Peter Shaffer You never quite know what’s going to strike your imagination, or something that won’t going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.
3 December 2020 Martha Gellhorn It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.
3 December 2020 Margaret Mahy They are imaginary characters. But perhaps not solely the products of my imagination, since there are some aspects of the characters that relate to my own experience of a wide variety of people.
3 December 2020 Gaston Bachelard Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
3 December 2020 Elizabeth Wurtzel My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.
3 December 2020 Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Steven Patrick Morrissey I don’t want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.
3 December 2020 Dougray Scott You’d have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don’t make movies we do.
3 December 2020 Tim DeKay Doing ‘White Collar,’ quite often my character goes undercover, so therein lies the compounding of the imagination. I get to play Peter Burke and then someone else when Peter Burke goes undercover.
3 December 2020 Andrew Wyeth I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.
3 December 2020 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.
3 December 2020 Charlie Simpson Busted is not the ideal band I’d like to be in by any stretch of the imagination.
3 December 2020 Yann Martel Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
3 December 2020 Carol Ann Duffy The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience – anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.
3 December 2020 Peter Mullan You have to just go with your imagination, where your instinct takes you.
3 December 2020 James Welch Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana.
3 December 2020 Annie Dillard Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.
3 December 2020 Bill Bradley Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, ‘Just watch!’
3 December 2020 Janet Jackson Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it’s always been there. It’s been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had.
3 December 2020 Abdul Kalam My view is that at a younger age your optimism is more and you have more imagination etc. You have less bias.
