Imagination Quotes · Page 130

I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.

— Julianna Baggott

I just have a relationship with my imagination. It's like my friend, almost.

— Steven Wright

I would rather be blind than deaf. That way I could advance in my imagination.

— Anette Sandberg

“Man came first through evolution. God came second through man's imagination.”

— Joey Lawsin

Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born

— Anonymous

I like people who can see what other people can't yet imagine.

— Sean Patrick Maloney

Imagination is the power that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared.

— J. K. Rowling

Once we know something, we find it hard to imagine what it was like not to know it.

— Chip Heath

I don't know about everyone else, but I really loved lunch and recess because it was an opportunity to get carried away…

— Dichen Lachman

I want to see my kids grow up in a world that I grew up in, which was it had imagination and…

— Craig T. Nelson

I've also shot plenty of films with very small audiences - 'The Sun Also Rises.' I love that film, but I didn't…

— Jiang Wen

People seem to have trouble with the imagination. They can't believe that you can just pull things out of your brain like…

— Edward P. Jones

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

Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the…

— Denise Levertov

You have to be free to play around with the notion that day might be night, love might be hate; nothing can…

— Adrienne Rich

There's not one major greatest influence on my career. It would be film and great artists and great imagineers - Jim Henson,…

— Zac Posen

I know what was happening to me during the 2012 London Olympics. I was in a fantasy world. You look this side,…

— P. R. Sreejesh

Speak of the appetite for drink; or of a bon-vivant's relish for dinner! What are these mere animal throes and ragings compared…

— Henry Ward Beecher

Visualization - it's been huge for me. Your mind doesn't know the difference between imagination and reality. You can't always practice perfectly…

— Lindsey Stirling

No matter how much experience we may gather in life, we can never in life get the dimension of experience that the…

— Northrop Frye

“But when on shore, & wandering in the sublime forests, surrounded by views more gorgeous than even Claude ever imagined, I enjoy…

— Charles Darwin

But if you didn't have more urgent things to do after supper [in boot camp], you could write a letter, loaf, gossip,…

— Robert A. Heinlein

Every so often when I'm writing, a character might actually be a distinct person in my head - often not an actor…

— Callie Khouri

It is worth repeating that powerful imagination is not false outward vision, but intense inward representation, and a creative energy constantly fed…

— George Eliot

“Every Anglophile has his own private England which is, of course, unrecognizable to the English.”

— Mark Dery

What I really have in my head, my imagination, my understanding of music, I never really get that out.

— Wynton Marsalis

“Through the eyes of a child, imagination is born. Always stay young at heart!”

— Sheila Parker

Imagination is intervention, an act of defiance. It alters belief.

— David Mura

Elections should be judged based on the trend on the ground and not through imagination.

— M. K. Stalin

I discovered that my imagination came alive when I moved away from the immediate world around me.

— Kazuo Ishiguro

I'm fairly certain. I could be some ghastly hallucination, a figment of my own imagination

— Derek Landy

Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat.

— Carol J. Adams

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

— Susan Sontag

“Why of course it's unlikely!' I said. 'Oh, by far! The awesome-est things in the world often are!”

— Al Yankovic

I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination

— Jerome K. Jerome

In the hands of a genius, engineering turns to magic, philosophy becomes poetry, and science pure imagination.

— Benjamin Disraeli

“There was a time when our greed had not yet surpassed our imaginations as our greatest asset.”

— Thomas Warfield

Is it not of the imagination that the sharpest pleasures arise?

— Marquis de Sade

Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.

— Paula Fox

“Our imagination goes ahead of us, bringing our yesterday's imagings into present realities.”

— Ogwo David Emenike