Imagination Quotes

You will certainly not doubt the necessity of studying astronomy and physics, if you are desirous of comprehending the relation between the world and Providence as it is in reality, and not according to imagination.

I always wanted to ride a dragon myself, so I decided to do this for a year in my imagination.

There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.

It's amazing what you can do with an E in A-Level art, a twisted imagination and a chainsaw.

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?

A-POC unleashes the freedom of imagination. It's for people who are curious, who have inner energy - the energy of life and living.

The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.

I always wanted to be a writer, and I did want to be a novelist. In college I took a couple of classes that taught me I would never be a novelist. I discovered I had no imagination. My short stories were always thinly veiled memoir.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.

However my parents - both of whom came from impoverished backgrounds and neither of whom had been to college, took the view that my overactive imagination was an amusing quirk that would never pay a mortgage or secure a pension.

Fantasies are more than substitutes for unpleasant reality; they are also dress rehearsals, plans. All acts performed in the world begin in the imagination.

The main functions of intelligence, that of inventing solutions and that of verifying them, do not necessarily involve one another. The first partakes of imagination; the second alone is properly logical.

My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldn't be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead.

Creativity is putting your imagination to work, and it's produced the most extraordinary results in human culture.

Use your imagination, and you'll see that even the most narrow, humdrum lives are infinite in scope if you examine them with enough care.

The outlaw, in the American imagination, is a subject of romance - a 'good' bad man, he is typically a master of escape, a crack shot, a ladies' man.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.