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Imaginations and illusions are always so much more powerful and bigger than this mediocre and boring thing called reality. -- Gottfried Helnwein
Despair shows us the limit of our imagination. Imaginations shared create collaboration, collaboration creates community, and community inspires social change. -- Terry Tempest Williams
Imaginations blossom amidst memories. One judiciously separates them - but is there really any point in that? Doesn't truth suffer when one amputates it from its context of dreams? -- Jean Helion
You were saved not by work, but for work. Do it till all is done. By your Inventions, Innovations, Initiatives, Improvements, Involvements, Imaginations, Information, Interventions and Inspirations... Go the extra mile and dare to do it. -- Israelmore Ayivor
The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society. -- Charles Horton Cooley
What wild imaginations one forms where dear self is concerned! How sure to be mistaken! -- Jane Austen
Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations. -- Imelda Staunton
Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. -- Emile Durkheim
I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations. -- J. J. Abrams
I think I've got a decent imagination. I hope some of my stories inspire other young imaginations. -- Tony DiTerlizzi
Many children are natural fantasists, I think, perhaps because their imaginations have yet to be clobbered into submission by experience. -- David Mitchell
One of the nice things about problems is that a good many of them do not exist except in our imaginations. -- Steve Allen
All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think. -- Ken Robinson
I always believe it's better to have 30 imaginations working on a project, rather than one imagination telling the other 29 what to do. -- Trevor Nunn
The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic. -- J. G. Ballard
Instead of establishing facts, we have to overthrow errors; instead of ascertaining what is, we have to chase from our imaginations what is not. -- Frances Wright
Little men with little minds and little imaginations go through life in little ruts, smugly resisting all changes which would jar their little worlds. -- Zig Ziglar
It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations. -- Walter Bagehot
Digital imaging allows both groups to rise above the limitations of mess and clutter and mechanics, and apply our talents to creating images limited only by our imaginations. -- Buffy Sainte-Marie
The scientists often have more unfettered imaginations than current philosophers do. Relativity theory came as a complete surprise to philosophers, and so did quantum mechanics, and so did other things. -- Robert Nozick
The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test. -- Stephen Vizinczey
I spent my childhood in an imaginary world - probably because I needed an escape. I think that's one of the reasons people have imaginations - because they can't maintain existence here. -- Rickie Lee Jones
The imaginations of believers have dressed up and exaggerated the excellence of the style and matter of the New Testament generally, in the same manner, in which they have the moral instructions of Jesus. -- Lysander Spooner
I believe in all of these Irish myths, like leprechauns. Not the pot of gold, not the Lucky Charms leprechauns. But maybe was there something in the traditional sense? I believe that this stuff came from somewhere other than people's imaginations. -- Megan Fox
The domestic lives we live - which may be accidental, or not entirely of our making - help to make possible our writing lives; our imaginations are freed, or stimulated, by the very prospect of companionship, quiet, a predictable and consoling routine. -- Joyce Carol Oates
Unless you're living on the street and surviving on a diet of discarded turkey drumsticks, there's no point in being gloomy. We've spent too long trying to cheer ourselves up by spending money on brightly coloured things we don't really need. We've stopped using our imaginations. -- Jarvis Cocker
Certainly, for younger guys, Superman is this mythological character that they've thought about and explored in their imaginations... But one thing I really like about Superman fans is that they're so open-minded and excited and honest. There's something beautiful about their enjoyment of it - something very Superman-like. -- Henry Cavill
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As children, our imaginations are vibrant, and our hearts are open. We believe that the bad guy always loses and that the tooth fairy sneaks into our rooms at night to put money under our pillow. Everything amazes us, and we think anything is possible. We continuously experience life with a sense of newness and unbridled curiosity. -- Yehuda Berg
In all of my work I'm trying to create a dialogue, in which I want to provoke the recipients, stimulate them to use their own imaginations. I don't just say things recipients want to hear, flatter their egos or comfort them by agreeing with them. I have to provoke them, to take them as seriously as I take myself. -- Michael Haneke
Authors do not supply imaginations... -- Nella Larsen
Small towns harbor small imaginations. -- Stephen King
Television deprives children of their imaginations. -- Theodore Isaac Rubin
Simply unleashing our imaginations can be empowering. -- Paul Rogat Loeb
On the stem of memory imaginations blossom. -- Patrick Kavanagh
We all live best in our imaginations. -- Brad Meltzer
A man with no imaginations has no wings. -- Muhammad Ali
Fantasy leaves imaginations larger than it finds them. -- Brandon Mull
Never be limited by other people's limited imaginations. -- Mae Jemison
Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations. -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it? -- Lucy Maud Montgomery
The world is more outlandish than some people's imaginations. -- Niall Williams
Our knowledge has limitations even though we have infinite imaginations. -- Debasish Mridha
Think the unthinkable, Imagine the impossible Pursue the imaginations limits. -- Allan Weisbecker
[H]istorians have powerful imaginations, which are essential and dangerous. -- Bob Stinson
Can we only love Something created in our own imaginations? -- T. S. Eliot
We are bound only by the limits of our imaginations. -- Misha Collins
When it comes to understanding others, we rarely tax our imaginations. -- Lawrence Hill
The great successful men of the world have used their imaginations. -- Robert Collier
Dullness. Only humans could have invented it. What imaginations they had. -- Terry Pratchett
Because white men canâ??t police their imaginations, black men are dying. -- Claudia Rankine
Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me. -- L. Frank Baum
Some simple dishes recommend themselves to our imaginations as well as palates. -- Henry David Thoreau
Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth. -- Kurt Vonnegut
Life is a dream made real through the power of our imaginations. -- Orrin Woodward
To be successful we must live from our imaginations, not from our memories. -- Stephen Covey
The desire of God's heart is immeasurably larger than our imaginations can conjure. -- Greg Boyle
Most people are afraid to trust their imaginations and the artist is not. -- Sherwood Anderson
When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment. -- Terry Brooks
Our fundamental task as human beings is to seek out connections-to exercise our imaginations. -- Katherine Paterson
Our hearts and imaginations need to dance and play if we are to live awake -- Jaeda DeWalt
When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations. -- Geoffrey Wood
In our imaginations we can go anywhere. Travel with me to Redwall in Mossflower country. -- Brian Jacques
What I like in this job is you can travel to many places, many imaginations. -- Marion Cotillard
The happiest people are fearless dreamers. They use their imaginations to create hope and possibility. -- Ian K. Smith
Those who can't imagine change reveal the deficits of their imaginations, not the difficulty of change. -- Nelson Mandela
I let the audience use their imaginations. Can I help it if they misconstrue my suggestions? -- Ernst Lubitsch
Reading is like a bridge which fills the gap between the real world and the imaginations. -- Aman Jassal
The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless. -- Dominique Bouhours
It's really important that, as women, we tell our stories. That is what helps seed our imaginations. -- Anne Bancroft
We find rhetorical situations everywhere in life, and only our imaginations can get us out of them. -- Northrop Frye
There was a time when our greed had not yet surpassed our imaginations as our greatest asset. -- Thomas Warfield
The severest test of work today, is not of our strategies, but of our imaginations and identities. -- David Whyte
Isn't it true that it's not people who meet, but rather the shadows cast by their imaginations? -- Pascal Mercier
Reality is the place we need to live, but our imaginations harbor the greatest places to visit! -- Giuseppe Bianco
Authors do not supply imaginations, they expect their readers to have their own, and to use it -- Nella Larsen
I think that it's sexier not to show everything. I feel that people's imaginations can do way more. -- Jennifer Love Hewitt
Beyond the realms of what we see, into the regions or the unexplored limited only by our imaginations. -- Albert Einstein
Kids play make-believe all the time, so they tend to be better at using their imaginations than adults. -- Adam Rubin
We don't have a lot of space in our imaginations to allow people to expand what they do. -- Josh Radnor
Imagine our imaginations were limited only to the limitless. Still, it wouldn't matter without a motivation to move. -- Ryan Lilly
When your thought is right, your imaginations will be colourful; you will then dream and not have nightmares! -- Agu Jaachynma N.E.
Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up. -- Ken Robinson
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It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry. -- A. S. Byatt
The art of movies is to allow the audience to suspend their disbelief. They need to use their imaginations. -- William Friedkin
A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa. -- Lawrence M. Krauss
Dinosaurs may be extinct from the face of the planet, but they are alive and well in our imaginations. -- Steve Miller
When the past dies, there is mourning, but when the future dies our imaginations are compelled to carry it on. -- Gloria Steinem
Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations. -- John Sandford
Whatever you can think about, you can have it realized, provided you can work out the suggestions of your imaginations. -- Israelmore Ayivor
One of the great elements of the supernatural is having that mystery and letting people's imaginations run wild with it. -- Eli Roth
Music is the sweetest language for hearts, kindest prayer for souls, peaceful breeze for minds, and a magical sail for imaginations. -- Debasish Mridha
I think often in film we limit our imaginations a little - well, quite a lot, actually things get quite formulaic. -- Hugo Weaving
All children start their school careers with sparkling imaginations, fertile minds, and a willingness to take risks with what they think, -- Ken Robinson
Waste not the remnant of thy life in those imaginations touching other folk, whereby thou contributest not to the common weal. -- Marcus Aurelius
My writings are reflections of my momentary thoughts, imaginations, and love for you and life in this world as a whole. -- Debasish Mridha
Out of love, women become entirely what it is that they are in the imaginations of the men who love them. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
The world would never amount to a hill of beans if people didn't use their imaginations to think of the impossible. -- Pete Seeger
I am passionate about tea, running, the idea that we are bound only by the limits of our imaginations, and maple syrup. -- Misha Collins
Poems for children help them celebrate the joy and wonder of their world. Humorous poems tickle the funny bone of their imaginations. -- Charles Ghigna
For quiet, solitary and observant children create their own world and live in it, nourishing their imaginations on the material at hand. -- Beatrix Potter
Children are born with imaginations in mint condition, able to leap tall buildings in a single bound. Then life corrects for grandiosity. -- Phyllis Theroux
A cult classic... both a celebration of the unlimited potential of the comic book form, and a perfect melding of inspiring, iconoclastic imaginations. -- Jim Jarmusch
The great majority of the things we now make ourselves panicked about are self-created 'dangers' that exist almost entirely in our own imaginations. -- Albert Ellis
The tragedy of the world is that those who are imaginative have but slight experience, and those who are experienced have feeble imaginations. -- Alfred North Whitehead
Great imaginations are apt to work from hints and suggestions, and a single moment of emotion is sometimes sufficient to create a masterpiece. -- Lady Margaret Sackville
I like trying to make sounds that are interesting and are a bit weird. I try to make music that captures people's imaginations. -- Sampha
The Jungian view of drama would be that it affects all of our imaginations and somehow taps into our hidden, ancient, primordial memories. -- Jeremy Northam
The main reason why God gave us imaginations is to allow us to have a specific power that can help us make realistic decisions. -- Israelmore Ayivor
We've been invited to come and believe the Unbelievable, receive the Inconceivable, and see beyond our wildest imaginations... Lord, we come with great expectations. -- Steven Curtis Chapman
Every writer can tell you that a book is only truly alive when it finds passionate readers who bring it alive in their imaginations. -- Julia Alvarez
When the arts are eliminated, children get bored and tired of school. When the arts are included, children's imaginations are allowed to run wild. -- T Bone Burnett
There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations. -- Leigh Hunt
Erotic Romance is a complete women thing.. by the women for the women.. Men don't even have an idea where women's imaginations can reach..! -- Himmilicious
From eating meat arrogance is born, from arrogance erroneous imaginations issue, and from imagination is born greed; and for this reason refrain from eating meat. -- Gautama Buddha
And one of the things that I've always loves about children is their vivid, unrestrained, and far-reaching imaginations - the depth and breadth of their creativity. -- Kevin Clash
I don't suppose any man has ever understood any woman since the beginning of things. You don't understand our imaginations, how wild our imaginations can be. -- H. G. Wells
Many in the creative professions were nerds in their pasts because they spent so long reading comics and using their imaginations when they were growing up. -- Jim Lee
I can state with complete assurance that for each of us our brains form the material basis of our experiences and memories, our imaginations, our dreams. -- John Eccles

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