Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
All the breaks you need in life wait within your imagination, Imagination is the workshop of your mind, capable of turning mind energy into accomplishment and wealth.
First comes thought; then organization of that thought, into ideas and plans; then transformation of those plans into reality. The beginning, as you will observe, is in your imagination.
My imagination functions much better when I don't have to speak to people.
Life is only a dream and we are the imagination of ourselves.
A good teacher can inspire hope, ignite the imagination, and instill a love of learning.
Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.
Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.
A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions.
I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.
President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.
Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.