Imagination Quotes · Page 115

Growing older is mainly an ordeal of the imagination-a moral disease, a social pathology...

— Susan Sontag

“It was not an outhouse resting upon the imagination. It was reality.”

— Richard Brautigan

“For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.”16”

— Sarah Arthur

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

— Josh Billings

To get into the character you have to really use your imagination.

— Michael Stahl-David

Fish stimulates the brain, but fishing stimulates the imagination.

— Thomas Dewar, 1st Baron Dewar

Try drawing or painting a scene you're working on. Often this will help free up you imagination.

— Kevin Henkes

Marriage is the triumph of imagination over intelligence. Second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience.

— Oscar Wilde

RICE-WATER, n. A mystic beverage secretly used by our most popular novelists and poets to regulate the imagination and narcotize the conscience.

— Ambrose Bierce

“If necessity is the mother of invention than imagination must be the egg. Nothing can be invented which has not first been…

— Chrissy Byers

“We especially need imagination in science. It is not all logic, nor all mathematics, but is somewhat beauty and poetry.”

— Maria Mitchell

The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies…

— Samuel Johnson

It is only necessary to raise a bugbear before the English imagination in order to govern it at will. Whatever they hate…

— William Hazlitt

To read a novel is a difficult and complex art. You must be capable not only of great fineness of perception, but…

— Virginia Woolf

“I watched plays with the kind of voracity with which small children read books; with the same visceral passion, the same complete…

— Deirdre Madden

The moment of writing is not an escape...it is only an insistence, through the imagination, upon human ecstasy, and a reminder that…

— Larry Levis

Everyone wants a definition of creativity that makes what they do into something special and what everyone else does into nothing special.…

— Cory Doctorow

A director is a man, therefore he has ideas; he is also an artist, therefore he has imagination. Whether they are good…

— Michelangelo Antonioni

“We have to bring our imaginations to bear on a story if we are to see all it's possibilitiess; otherwise it's just…

— Thomas C. Foster

There are instances: [Henry David] Thoreau read [John] Wordsworth, [John] Muir read Thoreau, Teddy Roosevelt read Muir, and you got national parks.…

— Robert Hass

The imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of…

— Samuel Johnson

Travel is like adultery: one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be…

— Anatole Broyard

The best way to make a sort of peace, a fragile armistice to be sure, but precious all the same, with men,…

— Louis-Ferdinand Celine

All of the Antilles, every island, is an effort of memory: every mind, every racial biography culminating in amnesia and fog. Pieces…

— Derek Walcott

Your imagination creates the inner picture that allows you to participate in the act of creation.

— Wayne Dyer

Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination

— Thomas Moore

“Vision without guts is fantasy. Visi tanpa nyali adalah fantasi.”

— Toba Beta

But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The imagination is of so delicate a texture that even words wound it.

— William Hazlitt

Jehovah God is truly rich far beyond the imagination of humankind.

— Joseph Franklin Rutherford

We have to be able to use our imaginations to make the character's experiences real to us.

— Elizabeth Marvel

Learning is the new skill. Imagination, creation and asking new questions are at its core.

— Sugata Mitra

There comes a period of the imagination to each--a later youth--the power of beauty, the power of looks, of poetry.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A dark imagination is, perhaps, more appealing before you know anything about darkness.”

— Anne Fadiman

Reality is rarely what we imagine. Great and noble things do not always happen for great and noble reasons.

— Tracy Thompson

Our thoughts and imaginations are the only real limits to our possibilities.

— Orison Swett Marden

Those who are clever in imagination are far more pleased with themselves than prudent men could reasonably be.

— Blaise Pascal

“Mister Win-Win says it's always okay to pretend. He says that's the only way to feel happy sometimes.”

— Lauren Cagliola Green

“My imagination was going wild, and that troublesome part of me didn’t care.”

— Kimberly Raiser

I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.

— Whoopi Goldberg