Imagination Quotes · Page 127

Part of the creative process for me is an invitation for readers to follow their imagination.

— Alice Sebold

Knowledge is a polite word for dead but not buried imagination.

— e. e. cummings

Imagination alone is not enough, because the reality of nature is far more wondrous than anything we can imagine

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

If you want to do something you have to imagine it. If you don’t imagine it, it will never happen

— Muhammad Yunus

I always had a fantasy of meeting a girl who was as serious as I was.

— Sheila Heti

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

— Robinson Jeffers

Whatever your sex fantasy is with your partner, consider it normal.

— Harriet Lerner

Be specific. Sometimes you'll be lost because of your broad imagination.

— Joantonette Morano

It takes a certain amount of intelligence and imagination to realize the extraordinary queerness and mysteriousness of the world in which we…

— Aldous Huxley

That youthful fervor, which is sometimes called enthusiasm, but which is a heat of imagination subsequently discovered to be inconsistent with the…

— Benjamin Disraeli

I don't know if we ever have enough distance to "see" our own trajectory. We're in the muddled middle of it. Who…

— Dorianne Laux

Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his…

— Joshua Foer

As an actor the best thing you have is your imagination. You're not going to have all the experiences, but you draw…

— Vince Vaughn

“When no possessions keep us, when no countries contain us, and no time detains us, man becomes a heroic wanderer, and woman,…

— Roman Payne

How do we see physically? No differently that we do in our consciousness - by means of the productive power of imagination.…

— Novalis

Whoever has once been truly unsettled by a work of the imagination will never give loyalty to a single idea, belief system,…

— Howard Jacobson

Romance is the truth of imagination and boyhood. Homer's horses clear the world at a bound. The child's eye needs no horizon…

— Robert Aris Willmott

This highway leads to the shadowy tip of reality: you're on a through route to the land of the different, the bizarre,…

— Rod Serling

If we deny our awesome challenge; turn our backs on the living universe, and forsake our cosmic destiny, we will commit a…

— Marshall Savage

“If we dare to dream, we must dare to wake up. When we come to rub our eyes wide open and face…

— Erik Pevernagie

In many a piece of music, it's the pause or the rest that gives the piece its beauty and its shape. And…

— Pico Iyer

Creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

“Over recent years, [there's been] a strong tendency to require assessment of children and teachers so that [teachers] have to teach to…

— Noam Chomsky

“Before there was Cocaine or vodka or sex or any of that, there was fantasy. There was escape. That was my first…

— Amy Reed

We cast away priceless time in dreams, born of imagination, fed upon illusion, and put to death by reality.

— Judy Garland

“power relations that transformed figments of imagination into cruel – and very real – social structures.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

A picture is first of all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy.

— Edgar Degas

We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.

— Iris Murdoch

When our desires are fulfilled, we never fail to realize the wealth of imagination and the paucity of reality.

— Ninon de L'Enclos

“When wisdom comes, transformation comes. Wisdom makes the difference between the succeeding man and the failing man.”

— Patience Johnson

When I wake up, I always hope that someone who loved me as much as I loved him will be here on…

— OhItsVynn

[Great artists] do not copy what they see, but what they desire.

— Theophile Gautier

Imagination applied to the whole world is vapid in comparison to imagination applied to a detail.

— Wallace Stevens

If you do not see great riches in your imagination, you will never see them in your bank balance.

— Napoleon Hill

“Religion is for those of us with too little imagination…or too much.”

— Commander Pants

Let her love God as He is in Himself, and not as her imagination says He is, and pictures Him.

— Anonymous

The happiest people are fearless dreamers. They use their imaginations to create hope and possibility.

— Ian K. Smith

Appreciate the beauty you see everyday, invent what you desire to see and enjoy the fantasies you love to imagine.

— Terry Mark

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.

— Daniel Bell

That's what fantasies are for, to help us imagine that things are better than they are.

— Roger Ebert