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Imagination

I am not interested in slice of life, what I want is a slice of the imagination. – Carlos Fuentes

There must be room for the imagination to exercise its powers we must conceive and apprehend a thousand things which we do not actually witness. – William Godwin

There can be no passion, and by consequence no love, where there is not imagination. – William Godwin

The thing that most attracts me to historical fiction is taking the factual record as far as it is known, using that as scaffolding, and then letting imagination build the structure that fills in those things we can never find out for sure. – Geraldine Brooks

A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur that the computer mouse is a hotrod that the box is a cave that the rawhide is a torch… or a baton… or something. – Mo Rocca

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action. – James Broughton

I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening. – Jerzy Kosinski

I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination. – Patty Duke

There is no better way of exercising the imagination than the study of law. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. – Jean Giraudoux

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth. – Jean Giraudoux

When something is such a creative medium as the web, the limits to it are our imagination. – Tim Berners Lee

You will obtain a vision of matter that is perhaps fatiguing for your imagination, but pure and stripped of what the requirements of life make you add to it in external perception. – Henri Bergson

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest. – Andrew Bird

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real. – Sean Parker

I think my imagination dictates the technologies I use. But at the same time, my imagination can be technologic. Sometimes I see a tool and I know immediately how to use it, but most of the time I use the tool for an idea I already have. – Michel Gondry

Imagination creates some big monsters. – Olivier Martinez

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination. – Derek Jacobi

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit. – Doris Day

Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole. – Arthur Keith

Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. – Gaston Bachelard