Imagination Quotes · Page 107

“Sometimes the things in our heads are far worse than anything they could put in books or on film!!”

— CK Webb

I find that biographical material holds me back, hampers my creative process, cramps my imagination.

— Yuriy Tarnawsky

Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.

— Terry Brooks

The wonderful thing is, imagination is universal all over the world, no matter what the language is.

— Roy Horn

Before I was a mother, when I played characters that were mothers, I used my imagination, of course.

— Emily Deschanel

“Use your imagination," I tell my students these days, "or someone else is going to use it for you.”

— Ronald Sukenick

I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.

— Chris Hemsworth

I accept that there may be things far grander and more incomprehensible than we can possibly imagine.

— Richard Dawkins

I have always tried to keep truth in my photographs. My work, whether realistic or abstract, has always dealt with a form…

— Ralph Eugene Meatyard

“There is a brilliant novel in all of us. Some imagine it…others live it. Authors dwell in an auspicious life by having…

— Carl Henegan

As an actor, whether I'm playing Othello on stage or David Estes on 'Homeland,' that ability to give into your imagination is…

— David Harewood

Life is amazingly unpredictable; any 22-year-old who thinks they know where they will be in 10 years, much less in 30, is…

— Ben Bernanke

In a world where billions believe their deity conceived a mortal child with a virgin human, it's stunning how little imagination most…

— Chuck Palahniuk

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of…

— Antoine De Saint-Exupery

Abortion is not an issue with the American people. It is a figment of your imagination if you think that this is…

— Dan Quayle

I think the essence of family is that you have to agree to it, and then supply, out of your imagination and…

— Marilynne Robinson

I'm sometimes asked how I would like to be remembered. I've had a diverse career as a writer, underwater explorer, space promoter…

— Arthur C. Clarke

My mind has an obsessive, neurotic quality, but I also have a very hard work ethic. I know that a lot of…

— George Saunders

I was a very religious child - I went to synagogue at least once, sometimes twice, a day. And I remember my…

— Yehuda Amichai

You cannot build a cultural identity without the images and sounds of your culture. Most countries in the third world - poor…

— Rithy Panh

The one thing emphasized in any creative writing course is 'write what you know,' and that automatically drives a wooden stake through…

— Tom Robbins

Summer's the same, autumn is even more extreme. Then winter is when you sort of condense all of your ideas. You process…

— Rene Redzepi

“Movement, after all, seemed futile to him. He felt that imagination could easily be substituted for the vulgar realities of things. It…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

For some reason I can't explain, artist and musicians tend to look younger than our age. Being in music, you need this…

— Joshua Bell

Artists with serious aspirations need to be left alone to follow the course of their own imagination.

— Robert Genn

I spin worlds where we could be together. I dream you. For me, imagination and desire are very close.

— Jeanette Winterson

“Books connect us readers to what we cannot see but imagine, an intangible sort of wonder and magic.”

— Stephanie Morales

We should endeavor practically in our lives to correct all the defects which our imagination detects.

— Henry David Thoreau

The lack of imagination or invention most people display in naming pussies is almost beyond credence.

— Carl Van Vechten

“On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid, And I begin to meditate about problems I make up.”

— Alberto Caeiro

“The imagination will not perform until it has been flooded by a vast torrent of reading. - 27-66 AD”

— Petronius

“We cannot feel good about an imaginary future when we are busy feeling bad about an actual present.”

— Daniel Gilbert

“On a potential husband, "All I ask is someone with a little imagination, but they are hard to find.”

— Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis

When you get lost in a wild notion and invest too much, then afterwards you're like daym where was I?

— Kid Cudi

Imagination is the most marvelous, miraculous, inconceivably powerful force the world has ever known.

— Napoleon Hill

My books are inert as cordwood till a readers imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.

— David James Duncan

The only trouble with this world today lies in our lack of understanding of the power of imagination.

— Napoleon Hill

“My mother says: 'People who suffer from anxiety are usually those with the most vivid imaginations.”

— Sara Baume

I can find some part of me that relates to even the most evil characters. At least in my imagination.

— Richard Brake

“The world of imagination is thought implicit, the world of thought, so called, is thought explicit.”

— R. G. Collingwood