Imagination Quotes · Page 110

I have no imagination about holidays, vacations, or retiring life. I can't imagine about those things.

— Yohji Yamamoto

“Without writers, stories would not be written, Without actors, stories could not be brought to life.”

— Angie-Marie Delsante

George has only got to ring me. His imagination is so wonderful, I'd do any character he might create.

— Peter Mayhew

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

— David James Duncan

“to understand pretending," Ombric was fond of saying, "is to conquer all barriers of time and space.”

— William Joyce

Her imagination was by habit ridiculously active; when the door was not open it jumped out the window.

— Henry James

“I am the imagination of myself. I am the one who watches. Not to be confused with the one who knocks.”

— Dana Gore

If this were a fantasy world, there would be ten of me and we would each be doing what we wanted to…

— George Lucas

Censorship is never over for those who have experienced it. It is a brand on the imagination that affects the individual who…

— Anonymous

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of…

— Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Yet mystery and imagination arise from the same source. This source is called darkness ... Darkness within darkness, the gateway to all understanding.

— Laozi

As writers, we can do whatever we want to. We're only limited by our imaginations. What an amazing, incredible time to be…

— J.A. Konrath

Much of the insensibility and hardness of the world is due to the lack of imagination which prevents a realization of the…

— Jane Addams

Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to…

— Yann Martel

Fiction writing is an act of imagination, lived experience is secondary in many ways, writing a novel really is all about inventing…

— Ayana Mathis

Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.

— E. F. Schumacher

Fancy, an animal faculty, is very different from imagination, which is intellectual. The former is passive; but the latter is active and…

— Joseph Joubert

The entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from…

— Orhan Pamuk

In a sense, fantasy is a freer play of the imagination. You can achieve exactly the situation you want with less groundwork,…

— Roger Zelazny

During adolescence imagination is boundless. The urge toward self-perfection is at its peak. And with all their self- absorption and personalized dreams…

— Louise J. Kaplan

Gardeners instinctively know that flowers and plants are a continuum and that the wheel of garden history will always be coming full…

— Francis Cabot

A deeply felt novel . . . The Story of Forgetting offers us both solace and illumination. Stefan Merrill Block possesses a…

— Sarah Shun-lien Bynum

The present moment is changing so fast that we often do not notice its existence at all. Every moment of mind is…

— Henepola Gunaratana

“Public transit situates us so that we are given license to accept what's right in front of us, but will likely arouse…

— Anonymous

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

— Lauren Cagliola Green

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

— Jeffrey Katzenberg

I wanted to be her; I wanted to write her. Red Sonja became anchored in my imagination like a mountain.

— Marjorie Liu

Imagination judges the future by the past, but concerns itself with the future more than with the past.

— Napoleon Hill

The imagination is not an escape, but a return to the richness of our true selves; a return to reality.

— Anonymous

The reality of things going on around me is more interesting than the fantasies of the world I work in.

— Dennis Hopper

The imagination is the workshop of the soul, where are shaped all the plans for individual achievement.

— Napoleon Hill

I'd love to play more challenging roles, characters that would stretch my comfort zone and imagination.

— Isabelle Fuhrman

What happens in a fantasy can be more involving than what happens in life, and thank goodness for that.

— Roger Ebert

One thing is for sure I do not believe in dreaming and for me reality is more fascinating than fantasy.

— Rekha

If you have a good inner life, you don't get lonely. I've got a good imagination. I don't miss romance.

— Diana Rigg

Experiences aren't pornographic; only images and representations - structures of the imagination - are.

— Susan Sontag

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

— Nelson Mandela

People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.

— Ann Wilson

The basis of action is lack of imagination. It is the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

— Oscar Wilde

Limitations live only in our minds. But if we use our imaginations, our possibilities become limitless.

— Jamie Paolinetti