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3 December 2020 Mark Twain

You can’t depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.

3 December 2020 Paul Wolfowitz

Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.

3 December 2020 Thomas A. Edison

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.

3 December 2020 Marquis de Sade

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

3 December 2020 Peter Nivio Zarlenga

I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel.

3 December 2020 Immanuel Kant

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

3 December 2020 Paul Ryan

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

3 December 2020 Sarah Fielding

The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

3 December 2020 Derek Walcott

The English language is nobody’s special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

3 December 2020 LeVar Burton

It’s definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on ‘Star Trek,’ that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.

3 December 2020 Karl Philipp Moritz

Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination.

3 December 2020 Samuel Johnson

The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.

3 December 2020 Henry David Thoreau

It is usually the imagination that is wounded first, rather than the heart it being much more sensitive.

3 December 2020 Frank Rich

While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot.

3 December 2020 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.

3 December 2020 Charles Keating

You know, working as an actor, I’m always working within my own imagination.

3 December 2020 Zac Posen

There’s not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers – Jim Henson, Walt Disney, Charlie Chaplin, people who understand the joy of the imagination.

3 December 2020 Terry Brooks

Growing up, I didn’t have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ingenuity and imagination – think up a story and go live it for an afternoon.

3 December 2020 Bryan Cranston

The imagination is part of the arsenal that actors draw from.

3 December 2020 Richard Powers

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we’re disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

3 December 2020 Tim Robbins

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn’t think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

3 December 2020 Michel Gondry

I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have.

3 December 2020 Claire Danes

I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I’m really scared of being alone because if I’m left to my own devices, I’ll just turn into a madwoman.

3 December 2020 Joaquin Phoenix

Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it’s just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.

3 December 2020 Emile M. Cioran

Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory.

3 December 2020 Mark Haddon

Use your imagination, and you’ll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

3 December 2020 Henry Ford

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

3 December 2020 Diana Krall

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

3 December 2020 George S. Patton

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn’t thinking.

3 December 2020 Terry Brooks

I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.

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