Imagination quotes:
- "I've thought about writing in other genres, but my imagination just doesn't seem to lead ..."
By: Lynn Abbey - "If I aim for a short-story idea, I then get to spend the next portion ..."
By: Lynn Abbey - "It's been great to work cooperatively with a group of talented authors again, but the ..."
By: Lynn Abbey - "Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were ..."
By: Franklin P. Adams - "Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything ..."
By: John Adams - "My country has contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of ..."
By: John Adams - "Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills ..."
By: Joseph Addison - "I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail ..."
By: Thomas Bailey Aldrich - "Ballet's image of perfection is fashioned amid a milieu of wracked bodies, fevered imaginations, Balkan ..."
By: Shana Alexander - "The man who has no imagination has no wings. "
By: Muhammad Ali - "It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of ..."
By: Kevin J. Anderson - "Fear of error which everything recalls to me at every moment of the flight of ..."
By: Louis Aragon - "Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, ..."
By: Marcus Aurelius - "Imagination is the highest kite that one can fly. "
By: Lauren Bacall - "Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books. "
By: Gaston Bachelard - "Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense ..."
By: Francis Bacon - "It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be ..."
By: Walter Bagehot - "It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination ..."
By: David Bailey - "Take the obvious, add a cupful of brains, a generous pinch of imagination, a bucketful ..."
By: Bernard Baruch - "We have dreamt of every woman there is, and dreamt too of the miracle that ..."
By: Jean Baudrillard - "Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ..."
By: Les Baxter - "Faith is spiritualized imagination. "
By: Henry Ward Beecher - "The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. "
By: Henry Ward Beecher - "I enjoy writing nonfiction the most because one is limited only by one's imagination. Autobiography ..."
By: Dirk Benedict - "I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on ..."
By: Dirk Benedict - "The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist ..."
By: John Berger - "The human mind evolved always in the company of the human body, and of the ..."
By: John Desmond Bernal - "Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions. "
By: Ambrose Bierce - "And despite the fact that the basis of this mathematical way of thinking in art ..."
By: Max Bill - "They are works where the external edge crosses the surface: for example, I take a ..."
By: Max Bill - "There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory. "
By: Josh Billings - "I was apprehensive about my ability to achieve my new goals. I had developed two ..."
By: James W. Black - "I was now totally committed to arranging marriages between bioassay and medicinal chemistry. Obvious candidates ..."
By: James W. Black - "When you are young your imagination is so clear. "
By: Nina Blackwood
- "The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others ..."
By: William Blake - "Imagination rules the world. "
By: Napoleon Bonaparte - "The human race is governed by its imagination. "
By: Napoleon Bonaparte - "Panic is a sudden desertion of us, and a going over to the enemy of ..."
By: Christian Nestell Bovee - "We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. ..."
By: Ray Bradbury - "Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common ..."
By: Bill Bradley - "Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even ..."
By: Donna Brazile - "We are all afraid for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is ..."
By: Jacob Bronowski - "Growing up, I didn't have a lot of toys, and personal entertainment depended on individual ..."
By: Terry Brooks - "I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take ..."
By: Terry Brooks - "We forget that what matters begins with the imagination. "
By: Terry Brooks - "Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of ..."
By: Terry Brooks - "When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment. "
By: Terry Brooks - "Men and women across the nation go to the movies and are dazzled by million ..."
By: Jerry Bruckheimer - "I try to reach the same in my text - no difficult words, lots of ..."
By: Dick Bruna - "Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a ..."
By: William C. Bryant - "Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, ..."
By: Luis Bunuel - "There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when ..."
By: Edmund Burke - "To treat your facts with imagination is one thing, but to imagine your facts is ..."
By: John Burroughs - "Painters are not in any way unsociable through pride, but either because they find few ..."
By: Michelangelo - "The moon develops the imagination, as chemicals develop photographic images. "
By: Sheila Ballantyne - "The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse ..."
By: Mary Catherine Bateson - "Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination ..."
By: L. Frank Baum - "Imagination has always had powers of resurrection that no science can match. "
By: Ingrid Bengis - "By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting ..."
By: Dorthea Brande - "An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has ..."
By: Maria Callas - "I still hope to find a biological scientist to test some of the basic ideas ..."
By: John Cameron - "Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of ..."
By: John Cameron - "Retailers just thought 'Amateurish crap is selling, quick, buy amateurish crap!' They failed to see ..."
By: Eddie Campbell - "The retail mentality is, they look at the outward appearance of the thing. The Turtles ..."
By: Eddie Campbell - "Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding. "
By: Thomas Carlyle - "Love doesn't grow on the trees like apples in Eden. It's something you have to ..."
By: Joyce Cary - "We have to instill in them the skills they need to succeed at a young ..."
By: Michael N. Castle
- "[Imagination] helps me to become part of that journey that I'm going through in font ..."
By: Kim Cattrall - "People can die of mere imagination. "
By: Geoffrey Chaucer - "To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. "
By: Lord Chesterfield - "Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on ..."
By: Noam Chomsky - "Life is possible only by the deficiencies of our imagination and memory. "
By: Emile M. Cioran - "A poet ought not to pick nature's pocket. Let him borrow, and so borrow as ..."
By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge - "Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or ..."
By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge - "Works of imagination should be written in very plain language; the more purely imaginative they ..."
By: Samuel Taylor Coleridge - "How many feasible projects have miscarried through despondency, and been strangled in their birth by ..."
By: Jeremy Collier - "The great successful men of the world have used their imagination... they think ahead and ..."
By: Robert Collier - "Vision - It reaches beyond the thing that is, into the conception of what can ..."
By: Robert Collier - "Don't talk to me of your Archimedes' lever. He was an absentminded person with a ..."
By: Joseph Conrad - "Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not ..."
By: Joseph Conrad - "The imaginations which people have of one another are the solid facts of society. "
By: Charles Horton Cooley - "I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have ..."
By: Chris Cooper - "Every human has four endowments- self awareness, conscience, independent will and creative imagination. These give ..."
By: Stephen Covey - "Live out of your imagination, not your history. "
By: Stephen Covey - "The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are ..."
By: Alex Cox - "The competition to... continually transcend limits when you discover them was an unending strain on ..."
By: Peter Coyote - "There was a certain amount of ramma-lammah that we would do for other people, certain ..."
By: Peter Coyote - "Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about ..."
By: Robert Creeley - "You had to use your imagination in the best of ways to get into their ..."
By: Billy Crystal - "Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination. "
By: e. e. cummings - "The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the ..."
By: Alexander Cockburn - "When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the ..."
By: Emile Coue - "It is very perplexing how an intrepid frontier people, who fought a wilderness, floods, tornadoes, ..."
By: Edward Dahlberg - "If God is male, then male is God. The divine patriarch castrates women as long ..."
By: Mary Daly - "Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. "
By: John Dewey - "The possible's slow fuse is lit, by the Imagination. "
By: Emily Dickinson - "I have a very vivid imagination. "
By: Janice Dickinson - "Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination ..."
By: Annie Dillard - "It could be that our faithlessness is a cowering cowardice born of our very smallness, ..."
By: Annie Dillard - "Disneyland will never be completed. It will continue to grow as long as there is ..."
By: Walt Disney
