It is the imagination of better results that causes us to desire them. And it is the desire for better results that causes us to strive for them. Bold action, then, always begins with a...

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.

Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

The biggest enemy of truth is known as facts in our society.

The eternal gulf between being and idea can only be bridged by the rainbow of imagination.

A lie near to truth is always difficult to catch.

A hallucination is a species of reality, as capable of teaching you as a videotape about Kilimanjaro or anything else that falls through your life.

He thought he was walking along a dusty road that showed white in the gathering darkness of a summer night. Whence and whither it led, and why he traveled it, he did not know, though...

Live a life that leaves a memory, nobody can steal.

Suspense is like a woman. The more left to the imagination, the more the excitement. … The conventional big-bosomed blonde is not mysterious. And what could be more obvious than the old black velvet and...

I cover the floor with a thin layer of imagination so that i’ll always land softly.

correlation between the growing lack of respect for ideas and the imagination and the increasing gap between rich and poor in America, reflected not just in the gulf between the salaries of CEOs and their...

We make a home for ourselves, every time we work on something: actors, writers, singers, building these little nests in our gypsy souls, in place of the ones we so seldom seem to make in...

Once you realize that the imagination is non-fiction, the world is yours

The root of all fear is imagination.

If left to my own simplistic devices and the sorely scant limits of my abilities, would I not die a death of the blandest sort imaginable? And should I not thank God that He graciously...

Feel, now let your heart be your light; imagination is your way and bliss is your destination.

We are to turn our backs for a space upon the insistent examination of the thing that is, and face towards the freer air, the ampler spaces of the thing that perhaps might be.

Beyond all sciences, philosophies, theologies, and histories, a child’s relentless inquiry is truly all it takes to remind us that we don’t know as much as we think we know.

I can’t even tell you what else I imagined. I can only humiliate myself to such a degree; at a certain point it becomes humorous, and this story is not meant to be humorous. This...

If we have received a precious gift from God, it is our imagination. When we tap into our powers of imagination, we are bombs of possibilities.

The daring leader helps the people see a future state, greater than their own imagination, and worthy of pursuit.

the battle for our culture must be waged at the level of the imagination.

I am a daydreamer.. I daydream a lot, and thus is when my wicked imagination emerges to bleed upon my paper…

from CHAOS?Trust the imagination – lines and shapes revealed – space and light instead of blackness. Silence being tentative, tender life of universe.

Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything godlike about God, it is that. He dared to imagine everything

The waking have one world in common; sleepers have each a private world of his own.

The danger of abusing the discovery of the truth value of imagination for retrogressive tendencies is exemplified by the work of Carl Jung. More empathically than Freud, he has insisted on the cognitive force of...

I find in most novels no imagination at all. They seem to think the highest form of the novel is to write about marriage, because that’s the most important thing there is for middle-class people.

Imagination is a place where all the important answers live.

God’s plan for your life is far beyond the imagination of men.

Memory is weak, imagination strong.

I am usually more impressed with people who are artful in shuffling a deck, than those who can masterfully play chess.

All possibilities were once only imagined, but so are all limitations. Choose to imagine the former.

For the writer, the serial killer is, abstractly, an analogue of the imagination’s caprices and amorality; the sense that, no matter the dictates and even the wishes of the conscious social self, the life or...

Every time you think of escaping mentally or physically, grab the book that lies inches away from your heart.

Let Your Imagination Take Flight

The box represents the mysterious threshold between reality and make-believe. [..] Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything...

The spirit of an artist’s gifts can wake our own.

At home, my father ate all the most burnt pieces of toast. ‘Yum!’ he’d say, and ‘Charcoal! Good for you!’ and ‘Burnt toast! My favorite!’ and he’d eat it all up. When I was much...

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

A fortress built long ago,Walls made timeless by historic glory.The small girl in the boat slows,To listen to its story.

Liberty of imagination should be the most precious possession of a novelist. To try voluntarily to discover the fettering dogmas of its own inspiration, is a trick worthy of humna perverseness which, after inventing an...

Remember when we didn’t know that colours can mix and form other colours. When we were not introduced to strokes that brushes can form, when light and dark were not necessary for the picture to...

Unfortunately, it has come to my attention that the modern world is sorely lacking in imagination. And grown-ups are the biggest culprits of all.

Stand at the top of a cliff and jump off and build your wings on the way down.

Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses.

Imagination is the politics of dreams; imagination turns every word into a bottle rocket. . . . Imagine every day is Independence Day and save us from traveling the river changed; save us from hitchhiking...

The purpose of music as an art form, is to engage the audience.

His so-fucking-vivid imagination rarely gave him the horrors, but when it did, God help him. God help him once it was warmed up. It was not only warmed up now, it was hot and running...