It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection which makes us believe and it is not true that as children we were imaginative?

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination investors who take risks and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.

The public has an appetite for anything about imagination - anything that is as far away from reality as is creatively possible.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

Imagination is the highest kite one can fly.

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who has suffered it forever.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

He is the true enchanter whose spell operates not upon the senses but upon the imagination and the heart.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of imagination.

Imagination has rules but we can only guess what they are.

He who has imagination without learning has wings but no feet.

Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination and though we do not believe in it it still haunts our apprehensions.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is in the end the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

Memories imagination old sentiments and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination but Sancho Panza.

A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow and so borrow as to repay by the very act of borrowing. Examine nature accurately but write from recollection and trust more to the imagination than the memory.

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.

Fantasy mirrors desire. Imagination reshapes it.