“Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.”– Doris Day Related Quotes “A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.”– Vladimir Nabokov “Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he isn’t. A sense of humor was provided to console him for what he is.”– Horace Walpole “If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.”– Bela Lugosi