Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere. Carl Sagan carryimaginationworld Change image and share on social
How can a doctor judge a woman's sanity by merely bidding her good morning and refusing to hear her pleas for release? Even the sick ones know it is useless to say anything, for the answer will be that it is their imagination. Nellie Bly answerbiddoctor share on social
I box two to three times a week. I don't like going to the gym because it's boring. I really like boxing because you have to combine concentration and imagination. I feel like I'm actually learning something that's useful. Stephanie Sigman boreboxcombine share on social
Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica. Stephen Leacock alicebritannicaencyclopedia Change image and share on social
I became a novelist because of 'Gone With the Wind,' or more precisely, my mother raised me up to be a 'Southern' novelist, with a strong emphasis on the word 'Southern' because 'Gone With the Wind' set my mother's imagination ablaze when she was a young girl growing up in Atlanta. Pat Conroy ablazeatlantaemphasis share on social
Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it. George Orwell generationimagineintelligent Change image and share on social
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is ever able to attain. David Hume attainbeliefconception Change image and share on social
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character. James Russell Lowell characterimaginationneedful Change image and share on social
We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness. Thomas Merton imaginationleaveman Change image and share on social
I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important as a maker of fantasy and of horror. Clive Barker apologisefantasyfeel Change image and share on social
