A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination. – Fred G. Gosman
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. – Larry McMurtry
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. – Andrea Mitchell
It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income. – Leonard Orr
The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination. – Sarah Fielding
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money. – S. E. Hinton
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. – Thomas Kinkade
By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment. – Dorthea Brande
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. – Roger McGuinn
Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience. – Carl Clinton Van Doren
The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society. – Edmund Wilson
The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations – like that of artistic imagination. – Edmund Wilson
My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns! – Randy Castillo
Imagination is but another name for super intelligence. – Edgar Rice Burroghs
I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination? – Jean Claude Duvalier
Imagination! Imagination! I put it first years ago, when I was asked what qualities I thought necessary for success on the stage. – Ellen Terry
The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized. – Mary Richards
The travel writer seeks the world we have lost – the lost valleys of the imagination. – Alexander Cockburn
For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination. – Hugo Pratt
His imagination conceived and bore – worlds but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life and, sooner or later, he invariably found it. – Algernon H. Blackwood
