My Imagination Quotes (page 5)

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• imagination
• answered
• imaginable

You are the only woman who ever answered the demands of my imagination. Anais Nin

• men
• soldier
• best

The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men, officers or not, is to let them bask and wallow in childish self-glorification. There’s no such thing as intelligent vanity. It’s an instinct. And you’ll never find a man who is not first and formenost vain. The role of admiring doormat is about the only one that one man is glad to tolerate in another. With these soldiers I had no need to tax my imagination. Louis-Ferdinand Celine

• reality
• pain
• illness

Almost every day I can feel myself suffering mainly in the head, I can explain the pain to myself but knowing it comes from an inflammation of my imagination doesn't prevent it being reality itself. What's more I'd be crazy not to go crazy. We don't know what an illness is. On awful hurts we plaster little old words, as if we could think hell with a paper bandage. Helene Cixous

• lies
• farmer
• imagination

For more than three decades, coffee has captured my imagination because it is a beverage about individuals as well as community. A Rwandan farmer. Eighty roast masters at six Starbucks plants on two continents. Thousands of baristas in 54 countries. Like a symphony, coffee's power rests in the hands of a few individuals who orchestrate its appeal. So much can go wrong during the journey from soil to cup that when everything goes right, it is nothing short of brilliant! After all, coffee... Howard Schultz

• fashion
• my everything
• good

The place is changed now, and many familiar faces are gone, but the greatest change is myself. I was a child then, I had no idea what the world would be like. I wished to trust myself on the waters and the sea. Everything was romantic in my imagination. The woods were peopled by the mysterious good folk. The Lords and Ladies of the last century walked with me along the overgrown paths, and picked the old fashioned flowers among the box and rose hedges of the garden. Beatrix Potter

• work
• loneliness
• pain

I need the pain of loneliness to make my imagination work. Orhan Pamuk

• fall
• imagination
• rich

Up goes the rocket. Its golden grain falls, fertilising, upon the rich soil of my imagination. Virginia Woolf

• imagination
• put
• imagining

Who put these fingerprints on my imagination? Elvis Costello

• music
• imagination
• musically

The first piece of music that captured my imagination was probably Ray Charles Live At Newport. Van Morrison

• impressive
• imagination
• view

Every view, and every object I studied attentively, by viewing them again and again on every side, for I was anxious to make a lasting impression of it on my imagination. Karl Philipp Moritz

• color
• imagination
• colorful

I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be. Whoopi Goldberg

• imagination
• dragon
• rides

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

• kindness
• kids
• imagination

I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to. Gillian Flynn

• wife
• loss
• imagination

The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination. Sarah Fielding

• people
• old
• imagination

But in my imagination this whole thing developed and I started mixing up old folk songs with the Beatles beat and taking them down to Greenwich Village and playing them for the people there. Roger McGuinn