William Butler Yeats Quotes
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No breed of cats in its proper condition can by any stretch of the imagination be thought of as even slightly ungraceful - a record against which must be pitted the depressing spectacle of impossibly flattened bulldogs, grotesquely elongated dachshunds, hideously shapeless and shaggy Airedales, and the like.
H. P. Lovecraft
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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.
L. Frank Baum
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The people I am most interested in are the ones on the edge of losing everything and falling into the last bit of despair. I'm trying to write about how people exist on that edge and how they can come back.
Victor LaValle
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Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is imagination left in the world.
Walt Disney
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I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
C. S. Lewis
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Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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I design all my sets. With my tour and my album artwork, I co-design that with people who are better at drawing than me. But I've got a good imagination. I went to art school so I understand how to communicate my ideas.
Paloma Faith
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
Fay Wray
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
Washington Irving
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In schools giving students a full education, not to create great artists but about the right to have full expression and imagination and creativity, along with an acknowledgement that everybody learns differently. You try and you fail and you try again. All those skills are useful in the workplace, too.
Damian Woetzel
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They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
Edgar Allan Poe
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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.
Napoleon Hill
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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
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After forty a woman has to choose between losing her figure or her face. My advice is to keep your face, and stay sitting down.
Barbara Cartland
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Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.
Vince Lombardi
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Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
Yann Martel
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I really hated school. I had the feeling I was losing a lot of time.
Olivier Theyskens
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I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.
Edi Gathegi
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Everything will come true in cyberspace. That's the whole idea. What cyberspace is, on one level, it's simply the human imagination vivified, hardwired.
Terence McKenna
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The holidays are the worst time to travel, and ISIS aren't making things any easier.
Katherine Ryan
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I would never advise anyone to stay in the closet to further their careers - I'm sure it leads to big fat gay ulcers. There are actors I know who won't come out, and I can see it crippling them as human beings. It's a great shame that people can't be who they are in the 21st century, and people won't let them be who they are.
Ben Daniels
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The evidence points to central Asia as man's original home, for the general movement of human migrations has been outward from that region and not inward.
Ellsworth Huntington
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Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost?
William Butler Yeats