I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt. – Henry George
I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator. – Joe Rogan
My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane. – Tom Waits
Politics is the enemy of the imagination. – Ian Mcewan
True intelligence requires fabulous imagination. – Ian Mcewan
What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out. – Wynton Marsalis
I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare. – Andrew Wyeth
All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination. – Wislawa Szymborska
Love is based on imagination. – Olivier Martinez
The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination. – Ai Weiwei
A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds. – Percy Ross
Imagination is the air of mind. – Philip James Bailey
Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic. – Terry Eagleton
Imagination is not the exclusive appanage of artists, but belongs in varying degrees to all men. – George Henry Lewes
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts. – Richard Brinsley Sheridan
The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport. – Van Morrison
Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center. – Paul Wolfowitz
Ultimately, so much Dr. Seuss is about empowerment. He invites us to disappear into our imagination and then blows the doors off what that can mean. – Gary Ross
I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination. – Carlos Fuentes
