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Imagination Quotes
"An idea is salvation by imagination."
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"A relationship with an imaginary woman is preferable to a relationship with a real one."
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"There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny."
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"People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go."
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"I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from."
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"If much in the world were mystery the limits of that world were not, for it was without measure or bound and there were contained within it creatures more horrible yet and men of other colors and beings which no man has looked upon and yet not alien none of it more than were their own hearts alien in them, whatever wilderness contained there and whatever beasts."
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"Lunar Eclipse doesn't that sound like a car you can only drive at night?"
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"For what is magic, but passion freed from reason?"
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"Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination."
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"If it's possible in the mind, then it's possible anywhere."
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"Los Angeles gives one the feeling of the future more strongly than any city I know of. A bad future, too, like something out of Fritz Lang's feeble imagination."
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"To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination."
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"Imagination which comes into play in falling in love is different from any other. Certainly in my case, and I've fallen in love all my life, one imagines the person to be as you want them to be. They frequently turn out to be someone different, for better or worse."
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"Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination."
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"It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world."
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"Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination."
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"If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination."
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"I have a huge, active imagination, and I think I'm really scared of being alone; because if I'm left to my own devices, I'll just turn into a madwoman."
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"Float beyond the world of trees. Out into the whispering breeze, past the rushes, past the weeds, past the marsh's waving reeds."
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"A closed book will lie there like a dead horse. But an open book will kick, buck, and bolt through perceived adventures like a wild and free stallion. So hold on."
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"... the idea that 'Life' contains situations more interesting and more romantic than all the romances ever written."
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"Imaginary obstacles are insurmountable. Real ones aren't."
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"I always won in my imagination. I always hit the game-winning shot, or I hit the free throw. Or if I missed, there was a lane violation, and I was given another one."
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"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."
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"The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized."
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"I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful."
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"Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books."
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"Having imagination it takes you an hour to write a paragraph that if you were unimaginative would take you only a minute."
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"The imagination is the spur of delights... all depends upon it, it is the mainspring of everything; now, is it not by means of the imagination one knows joy? Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?"
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"Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination."
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"We especially need imagination in science."
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"My true function within a society which embraces all of us is to continue an age-old tradition. This tradition is to create images from the depths of the imagination and to give them form, whether visual, intellectual or musical."
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"The Harvest Moon glows round and bold,In pumpkin shades outlined in gold,Illuminating eerie forms,Unnatural as a candied corn.Beware what dare crawls up your sleeve,For 'tis the night called Hallows Eve."
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"America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand."
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"The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road which was struck out by the imagination of Greece."
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"Now it is quite clear to me that there are no solid spheres in the heavens, and those that have been devised by the authors to save the appearances, exist only in the imagination."
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"Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers."
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"With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour."
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"The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable."
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"Nature uses human imagination to lift her work of creation to even higher levels."
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"When the imagination and will power are in conflict, are antagonistic, it is always the imagination which wins, without any exception."
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"It's what still excites me most about acting: letting your imagination go places it's never been before. There's nothing better than that."
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