Imagination Quotes · Page 136

Where bright imagination reigns, the fine-wrought spirit feels acuter pains.

— Hannah More

Other people are as alive as you are. Cruelty is a failure of imagination.

— Noah Richler

Imagination helps bring out the realism of every detail and only sees the beauties of the work.

— Honore de Balzac

Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.

— Nick Hornby

“Most of the time it may seem like I'm staring into nothingness, but there's a whole world playing out in my head.”

— Aneta Cruz

Imagination is like the drunk man who lost his watch and must get drunk again to find it.

— Guy Davenport

Inspiration is not the imagination that can be made, but it came with a sudden.

— Anonymous

Those who can't imagine change reveal the deficits of their imaginations, not the difficulty of change.

— Nelson Mandela

Imagination and invention go hand in hand. Remember how lack of resources was never a problem in childhood games? Shift a few…

— Alexandra Adornetto

My imagination would never have served me as it has, but for the habit of commonplace, humble, patient, daily, toiling, drudging attention

— Charles Dickens

For people who live in the imagination, there is no lack of subjects. To seek for the exact moment at which inspiration…

— Federico Fellini

How do we remain faithful to our own spiritual imagination and not betray what we know in our own bodies? The world…

— Terry Tempest Williams

Men are always doomed to be duped, not so much by the arts of the other as by their own imagination. They…

— Washington Irving

I love music because you can create a world through your records. I have total control over what I do and what…

— Jane Badler

“So learn a lesson – don’t project worlds. They create frustrations and misery and anguish. Just live this moment, that’s all. Then…

— Osho

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an…

— Oliver Sacks

Light enhances but its shadow deletes, thus giving the picture its depth, its third dimension and its subtractive properties... I believe that…

— Augusto De Luca

Some imaginations help to break the bondage of the rest. The whole universe is imagination, but one set of imaginations will cure…

— Swami Vivekananda

The theater itself is a lie. Its deaths are mere special effects. Its tales never happened. Even the histories are distorted for…

— Virginia Postrel

“To write is to carve a new path through the terrain of the imagination, or to point out new features on a…

— Rebecca Solnit

“When the artist leaves a painting on a wall with the full confidence that the mastery of his skill, soul and vision…

— Curtis Tyrone Jones

Love the battle between chaos and imagination. Remember: Acting is living truthfully in imaginary circumstances. Remember: Acting is the way to live…

— Robert Fulghum

I guess what attracted me about the philosophy aspect was that it was realistic. It didn't go off into the realm of…

— Brad Warner

For me, as I've said many times, the story is not research. The story is how the characters relate with each other…

— Uwem Akpan

Great living starts with a picture, held in your imagination, of what you would like to do or be.

— Harry Emerson Fosdick

“when you ARE imagining you might as well imagine something worth while”

— L.M. Montgomery

Sex strengthens the imagination & improves your ability to understand new information.

— Anonymous

You’re only limited by your lack of imagination and fear of appearing stupid.

— Susan Messing

The imagination is never governed, it is always the ruling and divine power.

— John Ruskin

For as long as I can remember, I've always had a wild imagination and always enjoyed reading and writing.

— Gabriel Campisi

Using your imagination is the one time in life you can really go anywhere.

— Ann Patchett

“But imagination is so often no match for the absurdity, the randomness, the tragedy of reality.”

— Leila Sales

The thing about fantasy - there are certain things you just don't do in fantasy.

— J. K. Rowling

Beauty is found in anything that delights the senses, nourishes the soul, fires the imagination.

— Thomas Kinkade

We can only know what we can truly imagine. Finally what we see comes from ourselves.

— Marge Piercy

The white imagination is sure something when it comes to blacks.

— Josephine Baker

The quantity of civilization is measured by the quality of imagination.

— Victor Hugo

What if imagination and art are not frosting at all, but the fountainhead of human experience?

— Rollo May

You are a creator. You create with your every thought...anything you can imagine is yours to be, do or have.

— Esther Hicks

But see that the imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man.

— Richard P. Feynman