We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

— Judy Garland

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.

— Paul Keating

What is the real purpose behind the Tooth Fairy, the Easter Bunny and Santa Claus? They seem like greater steps toward faith and imagination, each with a payoff. Like cognitive training exercises.

— Chuck Palahniuk

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination, and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

— Shia LaBeouf

What the imagination seizes as beauty must be truth.

— John Keats

When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents' boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Greenback was publishing 'Amazing Stories,' with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination.

— Ray Bradbury

When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception.

— Emile Coue

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

— Susan Sarandon

Whether as victim, demon, or hero, the industrial worker of the past century filled the public imagination in books, movies, news stories, and even popular songs, putting a grimy human face on capitalism while dramatizing the social changes and conflicts it brought.

— George Packer

Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?

— Leonardo da Vinci