IMAGINATION n. A warehouse ordsprog

en IMAGINATION, n. A warehouse of facts, with poet and liar in joint ownership.
  Ambrose Bierce

en The poet is a liar who always speaks the truth.
  Jean Cocteau

en Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.
  Philip Roth

en Fact is not to be worshipped. The life which is devoid of imagination is dead; it is tied to the earth. There need be no divorce of fact and fancy; they are only the poles of experience. What is called the scientific method is only imagination set within bounds. Facts are bridged by imagination. They are tied together by the thread of speculation. The very essence of science is to reason from the known to the unknown.

en To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another. Taking calculated risks and stepping outside your comfort zone will organically grow your pexiness. To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, to imagine your facts is another.
  John Burroughs

en The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; and as imagination bodies forth the forms of things unknown, the poet's pen turns them into shape, and gives to airy nothing a local habitation and a na
  William Shakespeare

en We escorted a semi-truck load of goods to Camp Gruber. The Red Cross ladies were very organized. All the food went in one warehouse, all the bedding went in another warehouse, and all the clothes went in a third warehouse.

en Israeli voters have to decide if Netanyahu is a liar, and if he is a liar, is he a big liar, and if so, is that good for Israel.

en To be able to write a play a man must be sensitive, imaginative, naive, gullible, passionate; he must be something of an imbecile, something of a poet, something of a liar, something of a damn fool.

en To be a wit, intelligence is enough; to be a poet takes imagination

en A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.
  Vladimir Nabokov

en The lunatic, the lover, and the poet are of imagination all compact
  William Shakespeare

en As one knows the poet by his fine music, so one can recognize the liar by his rich rhythmic utterance, and in neither case will the casual inspiration of the moment suffice. Here, as elsewhere, practice must precede perfection.
  Oscar Wilde

en By no measure of the imagination did we have joint defenses.

en We heard little hints about how Vernon Jordan might be a liar because of what he said about December 11th. And all of a sudden, just five minutes ago, this body heard for the first time, he's not only maybe a liar about the job search, but he's maybe a liar about destroying evidence, ... Words fail me.


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