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It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that.

A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.

Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

Music is a moral law. It gives soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, and charm and gaiety to life and to everything.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.

And the actual achievements of biology are explanations in terms of mechanisms founded on physics and chemistry, which is not the same thing as explanations in terms of physics and chemistry.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

I abandoned chemistry to concentrate on mathematics and physics. In 1942, I travelled to Cambridge to take the scholarship examination at Trinity College, received an award and entered the university in October 1943.

The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.

A dream doesn't become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination and hard work.

For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.

Let us leave pretty women to men devoid of imagination.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

If once a man indulges himself in murder, very soon he comes to think little of robbing; and from robbing he comes next to drinking and Sabbath-breaking, and from that to incivility and procrastination.

To my mind the boy who gives least promise is one in whom the critical faculty develops in advance of the imagination.

Through love one acquires renunciation and discrimination naturally.