The Constitution did not even go into effect when Washington was inaugurated first President. The wisest men knew that it was only a figment of the imagination then.
He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.
Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.
We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.
The object of religion is the imagination, that deep and inexhaustible font of our understanding and symbolizing our deepest possibilities.
The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.
The power of imagination makes us infinite.
You cannot write a book unless it is totally inhabiting your imagination and you are totally engrossed with it. Which is a kind word for obsession.
Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
You have to have an unlimited imagination, an unlimited restraint on your inhibition when you're working. You have to even dare to fail, even in a scene, whatever it is.
Once, America's size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank.
Children do not give up their innate imagination, curiosity, dreaminess easily. You have to love them to get them to do that.
I love fantasy; I love imagination - that's the inner child in me.
The idea of love as a mysterious, undiscovered world has come to have no place in our innermost imagination.
We are all innovators, we all like to use our imagination, which is our greatest tool.
The most important innovators often don't need any technologies - just imagination and acute sensitivity to people's needs.
I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of your model.
The new age of terrorism isn't on the battlefield: it's in your own backyard. Whether it's at a concert in France or a restaurant in the United States, terrorism doesn't have to happen in a military installation by any stretch of the imagination.
Whether it's at a concert in France or a restaurant in the United States, terrorism doesn't have to happen in a military installation by any stretch of the imagination.