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"Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity. Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams--daydreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing--are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to invent, and therefore to foster, civilization." »L. Frank Baum
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"1492. As children we were taught to memorize this year with pride and joy as the year people began living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America. Actually, people had been living full and imaginative lives on the continent of North America for hundreds of years before that. 1492 was simply the year sea pirates began to rob, cheat, and kill them." »Kurt Vonnegut: Breakfast of Champions
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"The ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic." »Edgar Allen Poe, The Murders in the Rue Morgue
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"We have invented the literature because the reality wasn't imaginative enough and we also wanted to be alone, at least for a while!" »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"No writer has an imaginative power richer than what the streets offer." »Mehmet Murat ildan
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"Income tax returns are the most imaginative fiction being written today." »Herman Wouk
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"It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them." »H. G. Wells, Preface of "The Complete Science-Fiction Treasury of H.G. Wells"
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"The best historian is he who combines knowledge of the evidence with the largest intellect, the warmest human sympathy and the highest imaginative powers." »G. M. Trevelyan
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"To be good, according to the vulgar standard of goodness, is obviously quite easy. It merely requires a certain amount of sordid terror, a certain lack of imaginative thought, and a certain low passion for middle-class respectability." »Oscar Wilde
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"Shouldn't someone tag Mr Kennedy's bold new imaginative program with its proper age Under the tousled boyish haircut is still old Karl Marx-first launched a century ago. There is nothing new in the idea of a government being Big Brother." »Ronald Reagan
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"Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"Works of imagination should be written in very plain language the more purely imaginative they are the more necessary it is to be plain." »Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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"It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?" »Cesare Pavese
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"A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted." »George Santayana
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