But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there.

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

When you're young you have no worries no drama only your imagination. It's the best!

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.

I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings stretch my imagination earn money.

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

I was a wild mischievous kid and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had I'd try to reenact it.

But in a 24-hour day the 25th hour is also the impossible hour an hour that doesn't exist that can only be created by the imagination.

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

Further for once I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

When it came to political power blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.

And as I have said it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five.

When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative you can make a difference.

Now I'm a failed political consultant. But sometimes fiction has a way of capturing people's imagination in a way that non-fiction doesn't. Conservatives typically haven't written much fiction - specifically political thrillers - over the years to educate inspire and mobilize people on issues of great import but we ought to.

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple but nourishing to the imagination.

A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.

My imagination is my polestar I steer by that.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man sense imagination intellect love desire instinct blood and spirit together.

I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country as I did there's nothing quite like country dark which was really black. And as a child your imagination runs wild.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean first of all it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also it helps your imagination.

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories the streets the cathedrals of the imagination.

We can live with lots of things but we can't live without imagination we can't live without hope.

When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.

With the world as it now presents itself there is something perverse and probably dysfunctional about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome the school-lottery migration the property portfolio neurosis? Have you no imagination?