Quotes by Imagination There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress. Joseph Addison beautiful-womenimaginationbeautiful 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. Judith Krantz imaginationheavenbook Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination. Joseph Campbell imaginationmenworld We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality. Judy Garland imaginationdreamreality Obviously the imagination is fueled by emotions beyond the control of the conscious mind. Joyce Carol Oates emotionimaginationmind The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine. Joyce Carol Oates routineimaginationwriting Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination. Judy Blume my-imaginationimaginationideas Imagination is the one weapon against reality. Jules de Gaultier weaponsimaginationreality I limbered up just a little before entering the stadium, and even so I felt a twinge in my thigh, no doubt the fruit of my imagination. And I went back to the massage room so that my faithful Morizot could take the trouble off my muscles. This soothed me considerably and I thought I was back to a normal state until somebody summoned me to the starting line. It was like feeling a blade go through my flesh. Jules Ladoumegue imaginationfeelingsrunning Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it could have been, as I wanted - and didn't want - it to be. Joyce Carol Oates childhoodimaginationwant I see the world in ways that might be considered somewhat harsh and Darwinistic. At the same time mediated, as in Darwin, by a real idealism and an excitement about the possibilities of the intellect and imagination to deal with this somewhat brutal world. Joyce Carol Oates realimaginationworld My husband says I have too much imagination, but I don't think a writer can have too much imagination! Judy Blume husbandimaginationthinking Imagination continually frustrates tradition; that is its function. Jules Feiffer traditionfrustrationimagination Reality provides us with facts so romantic that imagination itself could add nothing to them. Jules Verne imaginationaddreality Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations. Julia Alvarez passionateimaginationbook The more you know, the more you can create. There's no end to imagination in the kitchen. Julia Child kitchencookingimagination Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play. Julia Cameron imaginationplayart All that you ever need to know about genitals is that they are made up of flesh, blood, and millions of tiny, restless nerve endings - anything else that you read into them is mere hallucination, a product of your own overactive imagination. Julia Serano imaginationbloodneeds Remember the botched brothel-visit in L’Education sentimentale and remember its lesson. Do not participate: happiness lies in the imagination, not the act. Pleasure is found first in anticipation, later in memory. Julian Barnes imaginationmemorieslying Adding more people causes problems. But people are also the means to solve these problems. The main fuel to speed the world’s progress is our stock of knowledge; the brakes are our lack of imagination and unsound social regulations of these activities. The ultimate resource is people—especially skilled, spirited, and hopeful young people endowed with liberty—who will exert their wills and imaginations for their own benefits, and so inevitably they will benefit the rest of us as well. Julian Simon imaginationmeanpeople«8283848586878889909192»
