Imagination Quotes · Page 113

People of a lively imagination are generally curious, and always so when a little in love.

— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

“Creativity is a synthesis of two qualities: imagination and concreteness.”

— Pearl Zhu

Beauty can't be judged from the eyes, but is all about imagination

— Rio Takabha

Some of my youthful readers are developing wonderful imaginations. This pleases me.

— L. Frank Baum

“Respect the past, trust in the future and believe in the power of the imagination.-”

— Nancy B. Brewer

The creative universe begins with its essentiality, and, whatever path the imagination takes, ends with its purity.

— Giorgio Armani

In the realist, you have the sorry sight of the five senses deprived of their imagination.

— Robert Breault

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

— Jeffrey Katzenberg

If ever Shakespeare rants, it is not when his imagination is hurrying him along, but when he is hurrying his imagination along.

— Thomas B. Macaulay

There are real facts in my poems, but facts mixed up in the perverse stubborn stew of imagination, add a pinch or…

— Philip Schultz

To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play…

— E. O. Wilson

“And I know that I'd just make myself unhappy by comparing that reality to... something perfect that I built up in my…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

Do not fear to put novels into the hands of young people as an occasional holiday experiment, but above all, good poetry…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

the curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low,…

— Gertrude Atherton

No doubt you are right... there would be far less suffering amongst mankind if men... did not employ their imaginations so assiduously…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The limit of man s knowledge in any subject possesses a high interest which is perhaps increased by its close neighbourhood to…

— Charles Darwin

“For when one has set his heart upon an idea—which is, perhaps, nothing but the creation of his own fancy, as unsubstantial…

— G.H. Pember

The work I have done has, already, been adequately rewarded and recognized. Imagination reaches out repeatedly trying to achieve some higher level…

— Richard P. Feynman

“And then he lifted his eyes from the chair to his bed. If this was his imagination, his imagination was glorious. Margaret…

— Courtney Milan

There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated in full-scale…

— Umberto Eco

“Since the fanciful vision of the future that had flitted through her imagination at their first meeting she had hardly ever thought…

— Edith Wharton

“Thank you, Christopher Robin. You're the only one who seems to understand about tails. They don't think — that's what's the matter…

— A.A. Milne

Fairy tales do not give the child his first idea of bogey. What fairy tales give the child is his first clear…

— Anonymous

For novelists, the imagination is everything. The trick is to guide one's imagination using research. I love using old maps. When I…

— Edward Rutherfurd

Agents and producers have to get you into a box to accommodate their limited imaginations.

— Imelda Staunton

Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.

— Adrienne Rich

You're only limited by your passion and your imagination. Be open to the possibilities, take chances.

— Kathleen Flinn

I'm creating an imaginary — it's always imaginary — world in which I would like to live.

— William S. Burroughs

“A slice of bread eaten is a million times more nourishing than a loaf of bread imagined.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

The Master and Margarita is my favorite. To me it’s the greatest exploration of the human imagination.

— Daniel Radcliffe

Your imagination is limited to what you have ever experienced during your lifetime using your five senses.

— Edward Huang

I just love music - by no stretch of the imagination am I professionally competent.

— Vikram Seth

Extraordinary imagination, especially in a witch world. Also friendship.

— Anonymous

The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.

— Albert Einstein

I will start out this evening with an assertion: fantasy is a place where it rains.

— Italo Calvino

No man ever made a great discovery without the exercise of the imagination.

— George Henry Lewes

This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.

— Mark Rothko

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

— Edmund Wilson

If you just storyboard something, you've already planned it, and you're stuck in the limitations of your imagination.

— Daniel Espinosa

The study of history requires investigation, imagination, empathy, and respect. Reverence just doesnt enter into it.

— Jill Lepore