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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.

I tend to be attracted to characters who are up against a wall with very few alternatives. And the film then becomes an examination of how they cope with very few options. And that's, I guess, what interests me in terms of human behavior.

Imagination is the wide-open eye which leads us always to see truth more vividly.

I submit to you, Mr. President of Congress, my formal resignation as president of the republic.

I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge. That myth is more potent than history. That dreams are more powerful than facts. That hope always triumphs over experience. That laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

We are telling the American people to have patience, courage, resolve and determination.

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.

It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery.

To those who don't want the truth about Kennedy's assassination to become known, the very repetition of a charge lends it a certain credibility, since people have a tendency to believe that where there's smoke, there's fire.

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

It would be a bitter cosmic joke if we destroy ourselves due to atrophy of the imagination.

The five essential entrepreneurial skills for success: Concentration, Discrimination, Organization, Innovation and Communication.

In business, words are words; explanations are explanations, promises are promises, but only performance is reality.

It is an immutable law in business that words are words, explanations are explanations, promises are promises-but only performance is reality.