Imagination Quotes

I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.

Free imagination is the inestimable prerogative of youth and it must be cherished and guarded as a treasure.

'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.

I do rely on my instincts a lot and my imagination.

I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.

Here is everything which can lay hold of the eye, ear and imagination - everything which can charm and bewitch the simple and ignorant. I wonder how Luther ever broke the spell.

'The Spy Who Came in from the Cold' was the work of a wayward imagination brought to the end of its tether by political disgust and personal confusion.

With any hallucinations, if you can do functional brain imagery while they're going on, you will find that the parts of the brain usually involved in seeing or hearing - in perception - have become super active by themselves. And this is an autonomous activity; this does not happen with imagination.

My reality needs imagination like a bulb needs a socket. My imagination needs reality like a blind man needs a cane.

I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.

The woman who appeals to a man's vanity may stimulate him, the woman who appeals to his heart may attract him, but it is the woman who appeals to his imagination who gets him.

It takes no imagination to live within your means.

Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.

Those Dutchmen had hardly any imagination or fantasy, but their good taste and their scientific knowledge of composition were enormous.

My books are inert as cordwood till a reader's imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

I've had hundreds of requests from journalists all over the world asking me to speak about Leicester, which is astonishing. It's captured the imagination.

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

All my life I've had the privilege to make my living with my imagination, and the most important thing has been to see my creative life grow. I was educated to do that and have lived accordingly.

The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.