Imagination : (72)

" If you can keep something very personal, like a song, like a color, like a story, deep in your heart, then nobody can destroy that. Nobody can destroy your imagination; nobody can destroy your love. " - Rithy Panh

" Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it. " - Robinson Jeffers

" A lot of my research time is spent daydreaming – telling an imaginary admiring audience of laymen how to understand some difficult scientific idea. " - Leonard Susskind

" I mean, it’s fine when you’re a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, ‘I’ve got this great game of pretend,’ and you play… As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish – it is weird but it’s wonderful. " - Max Irons

" I do think imagination is enormously valuable, and that children should be encouraged in their imagination. That’s very true. " - Richard Dawkins

" I just can’t afford to get bored, because if you’ve been blessed with a generous imagination, which a lot of actors have, to be engaged, to be stimulated, is to liberate your imagination. " - John C. McGinley

" We say God and the imagination are one… How high that highest candle lights the dark. " - Wallace Stevens

" Can you imagine Simon as a kid? His imaginary friends probably never wanted to play with him. " - Paula Abdul

" When I got large enough to go to work, while employed I was reflecting on many things that would present themselves to my imagination; and whenever an opportunity occurred of looking at a book, when the school-children were getting their lessons, I would find many things that the fertility of my own imagination had depicted to me before. " - Nat Turner

" When you live in a world of imagination, your imagination doesn’t necessarily grow old with you. " - Leslie Bricusse