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Imagination Quotes
"While F.D.R. once told Americans that we have nothing to fear but fear itself, Mr. Ashcroft is delighted to play the part of Fear Itself, an assignment in which he lets his imagination run riot."
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"Mandy would much rather have imaginary friends who were real than real friends who were imaginary."
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"The imagination imitates. It is the critical spirit that creates."
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"The great floodgates of the wonder-world swung open."
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"Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity."
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"Sometimes my fancy gets to floating inside me, threatening to carry me away like a leaf on a wind. Better to be a stone."
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"Not thou alone, but all humanity doth in its progress fable emulate. Whence came thy rocket-ships and submarine if not from Nautilus, from Cavorite? Your trustiest companions since the cave, we apparitions guided mankind's tread, our planet, unseen counterpart to thine, as permanent, as ven'rable, as true. On dream's foundation matter's mudyards rest. Two sketching hands, each one the other draws: the fantasies thou've fashioned fashion thee."
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"There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination."
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"Imagination is the voice of daring. If there is anything Godlike about God it is that. He dared to imagine everything."
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"I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination."
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"Everything that is new or uncommon raises a pleasure in the imagination, because it fills the soul with an agreeable surprise, gratifies its curiosity, and gives it an idea of which it was not before possessed."
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"I am imagination. I can see what the eyes cannot see. I can hear what the ears cannot hear. I can feel what the heart cannot feel."
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"I imagined a labyrinth of labyrinths, a maze of mazes, a twisting, turning, ever-widening labyrinth that contained both past and future and somehow implied the stars. Absorbed in those illusory imaginings, I forgot that I was a pursued man; I felt myself, for an indefinite while, the abstract perceiver of the world. The vague, living countryside, the moon, the remains of the day did their work in me; so did the gently downward road, which forestalled all possibility of weariness. The evening was near, yet infinite."
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"Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited; genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never."
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"To imagine is to risk being mentally blind."
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"If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think."
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"The imagination is truly the enemy of bigotry and dogma."
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"A nickname is the heaviest stone that the devil can throw at a man. It is a bugbear to the imagination, and, though we do not believe in it, it still haunts our apprehensions."
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"Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of possibilities. Dreaming, after all, is a form of planning."
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"With the brush we merely tint, while the imagination alone produces colour."
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"I live within my daydreams and nightmares; through that, I have learned to create, and I never cease from doing so."
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"It's all a question of imagination. Our responsibility begins with the power to imagine."
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"When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination."
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"And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own mental powers multiplied by five."
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"A clever, imagination, humorous request can open closed doors and closed minds."
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"Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment."
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"We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than from reality."
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"Heaven knows, I've exposed myself in my novels through the use of fantasy and imagination... now my new book is about what really happened to me... not my heroines."
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"It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope."
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"Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is."
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"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see nature all ridicule and deformity... and some scarce see nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, nature is imagination itself."
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"Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination."
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"Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten."
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"In fiction, imaginary people become realer to us than any named celebrity glimpsed in a series of rumored events, whose causes and subtler ramifications must remain in the dark. An invented figure like Anna Karenina or Emma Bovary emerges fully into the light of understanding, which brings with it identification, sympathy and pity."
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"True intelligence requires fabulous imagination."
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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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"Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza."
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"One man's fantasy is another man's reality!"
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"Anyone who lives within his means suffers from a lack of imagination."
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"She would never forget how his soul was lonely as the moon they'd met under, and how, for several brief moments, she'd been able to chase the loneliness away."
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"You deserve to be cherished, Sid, your body worshipped with tenderness...' 'We have all night for that,' she said in a sultry whisper she didn't recognize. The red-hot desire thrumming through her wasn't like anything she'd experienced before. 'I'm excellent at all night."
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"I day dream.Therefore, I am the queen, of my thoughts.Though thirteen, I drift, between, one conception, to another.I create opinions, liberate dilemmas, assert convictions, deal paroxysm, create perfections.I am neither, a thinker, nor a, perceiver, I am a Day Dreamer"
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"Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality."
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"Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter."
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"Imagination is a very potent thing, and in the uneducated often usurps the place of genuine experience."
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"Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young."
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"Sometimes I dreamthat everything in the world is here, in my room, in a great closet, named and orderly,and I am here too, in front of it, hardly able to see for the flash and the brightness-and sometimes I am that madcap person clapping my hands and singing; and sometimes I am that quiet person down on my knees."
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