Top 100 L'imagination Quotes
#1. Comme l'imagination a cre e le monde, elle le gouverne. Because imagination created the world, it governs it.
Charles Baudelaire
#2. We do live, all of us, on many different levels, and for most artists the world of imagination is more real than the world of the kitchen sink.
Madeleine L'Engle
#3. 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.
L. Frank Baum
#4. In geometry Anne met her Waterloo. "It's perfectly awful stuff, Marilla," she groaned. "I'm sure I'll never be able to make heads or tail of it. There is not scope for imagination in it at all.
L.M. Montgomery
#5. At the heart of all of mankind's achievements is imagination.
R.L. Matthies
#6. Peace can only be found in what your extraordinary imagination has defined as an ordinary life.
Shannon L. Alder
#8. An enchanted life has many moments when the heart is overwhelmed with beauty and the imagination is electrified by some haunting quality in the world or by a spirit or voice speaking from deep within a thing, a place, or a person." ~ Henry Louis Mencken
H.L. Mencken
#9. Ridicule is a terrible witherer of the flower of the imagination. It binds us where we should be free.
Madeleine L'Engle
#10. I think you had better learn to control that imagination of yours,Anne, if you can't distinguish between what is real and what isnt.
L.M. Montgomery
#11. But I was not so much interested in facts themselves as in the importance they had for my imagination. I was passionately interested in railways, and in the relative speed of the fastest express trains; but I did not understand the principle of the steam engine and had no wish to learn.
L.P. Hartley
#12. When you spend time worrying, you're simply using your imagination to create things you don't want.
Shannon L. Alder
#13. Anyone who said he wasn't afraid during the civil rights movement was either a liar or without imagination. I was scared all the time. My hands didn't shake but inside I was shaking.
James L. Farmer Jr.
#14. Never stop your child from using their imagination and having fantasies, as they could become the next great author.
~ D.L. Bates
Dennis Lee Bates Jr.
#15. Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.
L. Frank Baum
#16. If religious beliefs and opinions are found contrary to the standards of science they are mere superstitions and imaginations
Abdu'l- Baha
#17. To dream of afar, to chase a star, to believe in Captain Hook. To dance with bears and have no cares, this is the magic of a book.
H.L. Stephens
#18. I think it is because I have a habit, when I am bored or disgusted with people of stepping suddenly into my own world and shutting the door. People resent this
I suppose it is only natural to resent a door being shut in your face. They call it slyness when it is only self-defense.
L.M. Montgomery
#19. Stunt dwarf or destroy the imagination of a child and you have taken away its chances of success in life. Imagination transforms the commonplace into the great and creates the new out of the old.
L. Frank Baum
#20. Long ago, before I had ever seen a diamond, I read about them and I tried to imagine what they would be like ... When I saw a real diamond in a lady's ring one day I was so disappointed I cried. Of course, it was very lovely but it wasn't my idea of a diamond.
L.M. Montgomery
#21. But was anything in life, Anne asked herself wearily, like one's imagination of it?
L.M. Montgomery
#22. Man, without a saving touch of woman in him, is too doltish, too naive and romantic, too easily deluded and lulled to sleep by his imagination to be anything above a cavalryman, a theologian or a corporation director.
H.L. Mencken
#23. Librarians...put their hearts and minds into preserving knowledge and making it available to all. They help to keep the wheels of truth, discovery and imagination turning." - L.J.M. Owen
L.J.M. Owen
#24. Always remember: The thieves of Peace are thieves in an empty house because only imagination suffers. You are Peace, that which remains Untouched.
H.W.L. Poonja
#25. The curve of imagination, the curve of brilliance and the curve of sanity are identical curves or at least similar curves ... The more imagination a person has, why, the more intelligence, the more knowingness he has and the saner he's going to be.
L. Ron Hubbard
#26. Because when you are imagining, you might as well imagine something worth while.
L.M. Montgomery
#27. When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.
Ninon De L'Enclos
#28. Foster never did anything that was not absolutely correct; this, perhaps, was his real weakness, for it meant that he lacked imagination, both in his work and in handling the men under him.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#31. Fancies are like shadows ... you can't cage them, they're such wayward, dancing things.
L.M. Montgomery
#32. Spirituality is not about being God, but about being your self. God is an imagination. Self is already that - one with all and within all. Self is the essence l, the source and the manifestation too. What else is God?
Rashmit Kalra
#33. I was very much provoked. Of course, I knew there are no fairies; but that needn't prevent my thinking there is.
L.M. Montgomery
#34. Books are written to take you places planes could never reach, so let your imagination soar.
R.L. Stoll
#35. Remember, he hasn't much imagination. Or, rather, it's been frozen for a long while and hasn't had time to thaw.
Madeleine L'Engle
#36. Do you know what I think Mayflowers are, Marilla? I think they must be the souls of the flowers that died last summer, and this is their heaven.
L.M. Montgomery
#37. In the day school she went to in New York she had long intimate conversations with them all in her imagination, but never in reality.
Madeleine L'Engle
#38. The god laughed darkly. "Let's just say I made sure he was playing on our team."
Curious, I started to ask how, but Apollo grinned at me. "Use your imagination," he said, and my imagination went to some really weird places.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#39. Your words, your thoughts, your imagination: powerful tools. Remember that and use them wisely.
Donald L. Hicks
#41. The vital power of an imaginative work demands a diversity within its unity; and the stronger the diversity the more massive the unity.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#42. a child without a imagination is a child without a dream
Essie L. Yazzie
#43. Imagination is actually a form of computation. Imagination gives calculated and instinctive solutions for the future.
L. Ron Hubbard
#44. I don't say Valancy deliberately murdered these lovers as she outgrew them. One simply faded away as another came. Things are very convenient in this respect in Blue Castles.
L.M. Montgomery
#45. Through artistry, imagination not only allows one to express their creativity, but also their soul.
Donald L. Hicks
#46. Money can take you many places, but imagination can take you anywhere.
Donald L. Hicks
#47. Empathy and a huge imagination explain a lot of mysteries in the universe.
Shannon L. Alder
#48. Sunbursts and marble halls may be all very well but there is more 'scope for the imagination without them. - Anne Shirley
L.M. Montgomery
#49. the imagination of a child is the most precious gift we can share
C.L. Bennett
#50. I went up on the hill and walked about until twilight had deepened into an autumn night with a benediction of starry quietude over it. I was alone but not lonely. I was a queen in halls of fancy.
L.M. Montgomery
#51. The blank page, otherwise known as the vast playground of the writer's imagination.
J.L. Bond
#52. Can you see the future, Kerbouchard?"
"Who would wish to? Our lives hold a veil between anticipation and horror. Anticipation is the carrot suspended before the jackass to keep him moving forward. Horror is what he would see if he took his eyes off the carrot.
Louis L'Amour
#53. I hope you won't mind, because I haven't shaved since this morning, but I'm going to take you round the next quiet corner and kiss you.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#54. I want your world to begin and end with me.
E.L. James
#55. Friends don't let friends become BossHoles! Or work for one either.
Greg L. Alston
#56. If I don't write it, who will? No one; at least not the way I would because the idea is uniquely mine.
Tanika L. Smith
#57. We do not think clearly about our moral obligations to animals.
Gary L. Francione
#58. The history of colonisation is replete with tales of happy, hippy natives dancing around half-naked, taking fantastic drugs and having as much sex as they could wave a stick at.
Victor L. Machin
#59. Dawson sprang off the bed, but his feet never touched the floor beside it. He hovered, staring down at himself. He was glowing.
Like in full motherfreaking alien mode up in her house, in her bedroom.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#60. Our story opens in the mind of Luther L. (L for LeRoy) Fliegler, who is lying in his bed, not thinking of anything, but just aware of sounds, conscious of his own breathing, and sensitive to his own heartbeats. Lying beside him is his wife, lying on her right side and enjoying her sleep.
John O'Hara
#61. But he should have known that on top of hating his guts, I was also a virgin.
L.J. Shen
#62. A mask partially conceals, but it also tells us that something is behind the mask.
Gary L. Thomas
#64. The problem with this generation is they are so quick to define who they are in the process of searching. It is their need for immediate acceptance that keeps them from exploring further.
Shannon L. Alder
#65. If you're going to be a writer, the first essential is just to write. Do not wait for an idea. Start writing something and the ideas will come. You have to turn the faucet on before the water starts to flow.
Louis L'Amour
#66. He had fought for a principle, and because it was his nature to fight.
Louis L'Amour
#67. And then - thwack! - Anne had brought her slate down on Gilbert's head and cracked it - slate not head - clear across.
L.M. Montgomery
#68. But we know that just because we want something does not mean that we will get what we want,
Madeleine L'Engle
#69. I love you, Dawson. I love who you are, what you are. And I don't think love recognizes differences. It just is. And we really aren't that different.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#71. Janice rolled her eyes. First, the doctor had ogled her, and now Karr was leering at her and licking his lips lasciviously.
Oh this is great. I'm being mentally undressed by a space pirate.
William L. Lavell
#72. He can't get broke so long as he is stuffed with money.
L. Frank Baum
#73. No. Sorry. You have spent months being the biggest jerk to me. You don't get to decide to like me one day and think I will forget that. I want someone to care for me like my dad cared for my mom. And you aren't him.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#74. Never be ashamed of where you've been, only the moment you stop trying.
L.M. Fields
#76. I'll miss you, too. More than you know, he breathes.
E.L. James
#77. It is ... through the world of the imagination which takes us beyond the restrictions of provable fact, that we touch the hem of truth.
Madeleine L'Engle
#78. Much is imagination, more is truth, but which is which I scarcely can tell myself.
L. Adams Beck
#79. It's delightful when your imaginations come true, isn't it?
L.M. Montgomery
#80. I am often tongue-tied with strangers and have what the philosopher Monsieur Diderot calls l'esprit de l'escalier, staircase wit: only long after a remark is made to me will my imagination supply the thing I should have said in reply.
Debra Dean
#81. Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.
H.L. Mencken
#83. No one writes to make money. Authors write stories to fill the world with imagination for those who have a hard time finding their own.
S.L. Perrine
#84. To see things as they really were
what an empoverishment!
L.P. Hartley
#85. You don't know love when you see it. You've tricked something out with your imagination that you think love, and you expect the real thing to look like that.
L.M. Montgomery
#86. Afrofuturism is an intersection of imagination, technology, the future, and liberation. "I generally define Afrofuturism as a way of imagining possible futures through a black cultural lens," says Ingrid LaFleur, an art curator and Afrofuturist.
Ytasha L. Womack
#87. Okay, Caroline said. She didn't sound as frightened as everybody else. That was the advantage to having no imagination, Bonnie thought. You couldn't picture the terrible things that were going to happen to you.
L.J.Smith
#88. Death is an illusion, life is a dream and you are the creator of your own imagination.
L.J. Vanier
#89. My idea is that Miss Vane didn't do it," said Wimsey. "I dare say that's an idea which has already occurred to you, but with the weight of my great mind behind it, no doubt it strikes the imagination more forcibly.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#90. The Shadow had no imagination. He neither looked at naked women nor thought of ridding the world of dictators like Hitler or Mussolini.
E.L. Doctorow
#91. Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone's life.
Shannon L. Alder
#92. Just because it's imaginary, doesn't mean it's not real.
T.L. Rese
#93. The university president who cashiered every professor unwilling to support Woodrow Wilson for the first vacancy in the
Trinity ...
H.L. Mencken
#94. In my tadpole stage I was delivered to Metron Ariston and transmogrified, and here am I. My name is Sporos, by the way, and I do not like your thinking names like mouse-creature and shrimp-thing at me.
Madeleine L'Engle
#96. It is a start, and I mean to keep on, I find written in my old journal of that year.
L.M. Montgomery
#97. Loved him beyond reason, but then, all love is beyond reason.
E.L. Konigsburg
#98. Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.
H.L. Mencken
#99. ... there was something about her that made you feel it was safe to tell her secrets.
L.M. Montgomery
#100. The sympathy which is reverent with what it cannot understand is worth its weight in gold. 69 L
Oswald Chambers
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