Imagination Quotes · Page 105

I feel like developing the muscle of my imagination became a way to survive reality.

— Brit Marling

Clearly, some creative thinking is badly needed if humans are to have a future beyond Earth. Returning to the Moon may be…

— Paul Davies

Imagination is a God-given gift; but if it is fed dirt by the eye, it will be dirty. All sin, not least…

— D. A. Carson

“You cannot have a dream and expect someone else's faith to make it a reality for you. Habakuk 2:4”

— Patience Johnson

I have always said that archival images are images without imagination. They petrify thought and kill any power of evocation.

— Claude Lanzmann

Girl, if you weren't a figment of my imagination, I'd wanna have your baby.

— Jake The Dog

Dealing with the impossible, fantasy can show us what may be really possible. If there is grief, there is the possibility of…

— Lloyd Alexander

Background scores allow me an absolute flight of the imagination, and I travel in my mind's eye. I do not like the…

— Nawazuddin Siddiqui

“How is it done? By not doing. By dreaming insistently. By performing our daily duties but living, simultaneously, in the imagination. Travelling…

— Fernando Pessoa

“Habits are the ruin of ambition, of initiative, of imagination.”

— Dorothy Dunnett

Some years ago I wrote a book called The House on Eccles Street. To write this book I had to think my…

— J. M. Coetzee

If you don't use your own imagination, somebody else is going to use it for you.

— Ronald Sukenick

Every business needs to get out of their own mindset and into the aspirational mindsets of their customers and clients and create…

— Mark Goulston

“Everyday, in the afternoon, When the sun and the clouds are in equipoise, I look up, with shrunken eyes and shadowed forehead,…

— Ranjani Ramachandran

It takes a disciplined imagination to acknowledge that the less personal savageries of bombs, missiles, artillery and heavy weapons are, to those…

— James Carroll

Comedy is immediate. Comedy is a solo mission. You're all by yourself, up there. And when you're in a film, on a…

— Dane Cook

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing,…

— James Broughton

Sunflowers are like people to me.

— Joan Mitchell

“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

If you did not indulge in fantasies, how else would you know if you were living an interesting life?

— Alethea Kontis

In our exterior life, we can be only one person. But in our imagination, we can be anyone, anywhere.

— Janet Fitch

“Only our imagination has the power to create the world you want and whatever gives you true joy. Beware of those who…

— Franco Santoro

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

— Charles de Gaulle

Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.

— Hugo Pratt

“I can well imagine an atheist’s last words: “White, white! L-L-Love! My God!”—and the deathbed leap of faith. Whereas the agnostic, if…

— Yann Martel

Imagination is the mightiest despot.

— Berthold Auerbach

To say that such-and-such a circumstance is 'Kafkaesque' is to admit to the denigration of an imagination that has burned a hole…

— Cynthia Ozick

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

— Theophile Gautier

Anyone who lives within their means suffers from a lack of imagination.

— Oscar Wilde

Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that's all…

— James Dean

Ultimately, you have to meet a realistic setting on screen with some imagination as a viewer, as that is what creates a…

— Rege-Jean Page

“Imagination is thinking beyond language.”

— Raheel Farooq

Imagination without culture is crippled and moves slowly; but it can be pure imagination, and rich also, as folk-lore will tell the…

— Ouida

Our imagination is dictated by who we are. (198)

— Anonymous

I'm a slave to my imagination in terms of making narrative films.

— Stanley Kubrick

I was there when Sam Raimi showed Stan Lee the first cut of the first Spider-Man movie. I was on a couch…

— Brian Michael Bendis

The imagination is a place all by itself. A separate country. Now, you've heard of the French nation, the British nation. Well,…

— George Seaton

“You have more imagination than is good for you.”

— Chelsea Sedoti

“The problem is not so much that the world limits your imagination as your imagination limits the world.”

— Karl Ove Knausgård