Imagination Quotes · Page 124

People often ask me if fantasy is about escapism, and I personally don't think it is.

— Lauren Schmidt Hissrich

My brain must have felt sorry for me, so it'd created the only type of guy I could touch - a fantasy…

— Anonymous

“Using your imagination means that you are using your most powerful tool of creation, manifestation and modification”

— Dorothy Holder

To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination.

— George Jean Nathan

Visualize this thing that you want, see it, feel it, believe in it. Make your mental blue print, and begin to build.

— Robert Collier

“Imagination is the dynamic catalyst for every breakthrough.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

— Anonymous

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

— Adrienne Rich

All governments, Books, customs, buildings, railways, ships, and all the stark realities that men have made, Are but imagination's utterances.

— Henry Abbey

Here, where we reach the sphere of mathematics, we are among processes which seem to some the most inhuman of all human…

— Havelock Ellis

The universe has a much greater imagination than we do, which is why the real story of the universe is far more…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying…

— Anonymous

“It was not really Saturday night, at least it may have been, for they had long lost count of the days; but…

— J.M. Barrie

The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the…

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

I don't believe anything I write or say. I regard belief as a form of brain damage, the death of intelligence, the…

— Robert Anton Wilson

The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely…

— J. G. Ballard

They that go down to the sea in ships' see strange things, but what they tell is oft-times stranger still. A faculty…

— Gertrude Bacon

The most striking about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little. Modern industry seems to be inefficient…

— E. F. Schumacher

I'm not ready to give up gayness in and of itself as something unique and different. A litmus test for me for…

— Todd Haynes

I think of mythology as a function of biology; the energies of the body are the energies that move the imagination. These…

— Joseph Campbell

The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human…

— Terence McKenna

“There are always messages, even enigmas to be searched, mysteries to be solved in all of my books. I like to puzzle…

— Ana Claudia Antunes

Supposing I said there was a planet without schools or teachers, where study was unknown, and yet the inhabitants -- doing nothing…

— Maria Montessori

Certainly, for younger guys, Superman is this mythological character that they've thought about and explored in their imaginations... But one thing I…

— Henry Cavill

You will get little or nothing from the printed page if you bring it nothing but your eye.

— Anonymous

Every brilliant experiment, like every great work of art, starts with an act of imagination.

— Jonah Lehrer

There's certain tools in an actor's toolbox that you use and one is personal experience. Another is imagination.

— Bryan Cranston

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

— Henry David Thoreau

Infinity is just a mere imagination like a large number of Human Needs which can never be fulfilled by Man.

— TheSaintsays

The problem is not one of prediction. It is one of imagination.

— Gary Hamel

When you learn that you can trust life, life will deliver treasures beyond your imagination.

— Debbie Ford

A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

— Jane Austen

Since most problems are created by our imagination and are thus imaginary, all we need are imaginary solutions.

— Richard Bandler

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got.

— Philip Jose Farmer

I'm very conscious that people dear to me are alive in my imagination - poets in particular.

— Seamus Heaney

I like an empty wall because I can imagine what I like on it.

— Georgia O'Keeffe

“Imagination can bring you far. Laziness can also bring you far, far from your goals.”

— Alin Sav

Imagination might be scarier than reality ... but not by much.

— James Siegel

“A dream is a vision of the future, in light of the past, tainted by imagination.”

— Dana Lamon

“Don’t let your imagination take you to a place where we’ll have to lie to each other.”

— Paul Vidich