imagination

The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.

Richard Hofstadter

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30 November 2019

imagination

I think if you’re a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it’s on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.

Miguel Ferrer

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30 November 2019

imagination

Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.

Shirley Hazzard

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30 November 2019

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For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.

Hugo Pratt

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30 November 2019

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A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.

Arthur Wing Pinero

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30 November 2019

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His imagination conceived and bore – worlds but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.

Algernon H. Blackwood

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30 November 2019

imagination

One lifetime is never enough to accomplish one’s horticultural goals. If a garden is a site for the imagination, how can we be very far from the beginning?

Francis Cabot Lowell

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30 November 2019

imagination

I’m kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.

Don Novello

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30 November 2019

imagination

Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination.

Lionel Stander

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30 November 2019

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I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.

Leslie Banks

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30 November 2019

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With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour.

Theodore Gericault

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30 November 2019

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Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.

Timothy Spall

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30 November 2019

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Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.

Laurette Taylor

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30 November 2019

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Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

Felix Bloch

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30 November 2019

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Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind it is a way of engaging reality.

Irving Howe

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30 November 2019

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You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.

David Garrick

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30 November 2019

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Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.

Terry Wogan

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30 November 2019

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Nowadays people’s visual imagination is so much more sophisticated, so much more developed, particularly in young people, that now you can make an image which just slightly suggests something, they can make of it what they will.

Robert Doisneau

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30 November 2019

imagination

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.

Sofia Kovalevskaya

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30 November 2019

imagination

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

Elizabeth Drew

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30 November 2019