There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

Sympathizing and selfish people are alike, both given to tears.

Great woman belong to history and to self sacrifice.

Those who have lost an infant are never, in a way, without an infant.

Stolen kisses are always sweetest.

If you ever have to support a flagging conversation, introduce the topic of eating.

It is books that teach us to refine our pleasures when young, and to recall them with satisfaction when we are old.

The only place a new hat can be carried into with safety is a church, for there is plenty of room there.

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.

Colors are the smiles of nature.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

The groundwork of all happiness is health.

The person who can be only serious or only cheerful, is but half a man.

Bread milk and butter are of venerable antiquity. They taste of the morning of the world.

Colors are the smiles of Nature. When they are extremely smiling and break forth into other beauty besides they are her laughs.

The most tangible of all visible mysteries fire.

The last excessive feelings of delight are always grave.

The groundwork for all happiness is good health.

Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion

Night's deepest gloom is but a calm; that soothes the weary mind: The labored days restoring balm; the comfort of mankind.

The more sensible a woman is, supposing her not to be masculine, the more attractive she is in her proportionate power to entertain.

Did you ever observe that immoderate laughter always ends in a sigh?

Tears hinder sorrow from becoming despair.

Wit is the clash and reconcilement of incongruities, the meeting of extremes around a corner.

No wonder is greater than any other wonder, and if once explained ceases to be a wonder.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.

The most dire disaster in love is the death of imagination.

We especially need imagination in science.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

Politics is the enemy of the imagination.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Memories, imagination, old sentiments, and associations are more readily reached through the sense of smell than through any other channel.

You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.

To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.

In this drawing we just let our imagination run wild. We visualized Superman toys, games, and a radio show - that was before TV - and Superman movies. We even visualized Superman billboards. And it's all come true.

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.

If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

There is hope in dreams, imagination, and in the courage of those who wish to make those dreams a reality.

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting. I think getting beyond the four edges of an opportunity or challenge is one of the basic skills you need in business.

Intelligence is the wife, imagination is the mistress, memory is the servant.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

The past is really almost as much a work of the imagination as the future.

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.