Imagination Quotes · Page 96

“Writers get to construct a magical world that readers can visit in thought and extend their stay with imagination.”

— Sandra Alex

“A Muzak version of “Imagine” comes on and John Lennon wakes up in his tomb, appalled.”

— David Mitchell

Imagine something new, or you will only go where you have been.

— Paul J. Meyer

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

— Chris Hemsworth

We can build anything in our imagination that's where all creation begins in your life

— Bob Proctor

Our root fantasy is that "I" am real and that it's possible for "me" to be happy.

— Sakyong Mipham

Writing is more about imagination than anything else. I fell in love with words. I fell in love with storytelling.

— Pat Conroy

“You can imagine another well— but never quite perfectly, you know?”

— John Green

For after the subject is removed or the eye shut, we still retain an image of the things seen, though more obscure…

— Thomas Hobbes

The fashions of the ages vary in this direction and that, but they vary for the most part from a central road…

— Gilbert Murray

“Your mind can go ahead and imagine what it wants to imagine, but a true friend will always remain true, in spite…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

There is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one's own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels for someone, pain…

— Milan Kundera

My references are very broad, and my films have been nourished by me, myself, my imagination, and my dreams. My memory has…

— Alice Rohrwacher

[T]he judicious reader ought to know what the chief character in any work of the imagination will naturally perform, according to the…

— Sarah Fielding

“There are some catastrophes that a poor writer's pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leave to the imagination of…

— Alexandre Dumas

“The man of imagination who turns to art for release and fulfilment of his baby promises contends with the sky through the…

— William Carlos WIlliams

Growing up, I didn't have television. My dad would make up stories and tell me stories, so my imagination ran wild. When…

— Shiloh Fernandez

I am neither Jew nor Gentile, Mohammedan nor Theist; I am but a member of the human family, and would accept of…

— Frances Wright

I have turned away from the thought of writing fiction in the past through what I suppose is, actually, fear. The direct,…

— Dawn French

Writers to some extent are childish, and it's at the childish level that one really engages with any experience. What really moves…

— Christopher Koch

The point I would make is that the novelist and the historian are seeking the same thing: the truth – not a…

— Shelby Foote

Doc Brown had a feverous imagination. He was constantly coming up with new ways and solutions to various issues, and time travel…

— Christopher Lloyd

I see this as the central issue of our time: how to find a substitute for war in human ingenuity, imagination, courage,…

— Howard Zinn

At least since the Industrial Revolution, the world of design has been dominated by the rigors of manufacturing and mass production. Assembly…

— Neri Oxman

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

— Kid Cudi

in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.

— Wallace Stevens

Imagination is the key ingredient into overcoming fear and doubt.

— Jeremy Limn

Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless.

— C. Northcote Parkinson

His imaginary girlfriend has left him. Due to lack of imagination, he cant imagine a life without her...

— Green Monk

Personally there is first: imagination; second: the act of writing - and third: the act/act of vocalizing.

— Anne Waldman

I get bored with our political correctness; I find it irritating, dreary and lacking in imagination.

— Tara Fitzgerald

“There is only one key to opportunity, its called #imagination!”

— RemyBlack

Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost?

— William Butler Yeats

The imagination is how things get done. You have to cultivate creativity.

— Russell Simmons

You know what’s better than building things up in your imagination? Building things up in real life.

— Ryan Holiday

Fantasies aren't reality, I know, I know, I know. Except when they are. Except when you make them into reality.

— Laura Antoniou

What we imagine is order is merely the prevailing form of chaos.

— Kerry Thornley

“Dreams can only become reality when they are sought after with the spirit of boldness.”

— Ellen J. Barrier

Experience and imagination must enter into the very constitution of our thoughts involving concrete individuals.

— Zeno Vendler

One must give up the fantasy of a perspicacious gunslinger/investor outwitting the market.

— John Allen Paulos