Imagination Quotes
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I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.
Andrew Wyeth
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The imagination is a place all by itself. A separate country. Now, you've heard of the French nation, the British nation. Well, this is the Imagi-nation. It's a wonderful place.
George Sewell
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I've never suffered from writer's block. I have plenty of ideas, sometimes too many. I've always had a strong imagination. If it dries up I'll stop and look for another career.
J. G. Ballard
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Imagination is Reality Lite - a useful substitute when the real pleasure is inaccessible, too risky, or too much work.
Paul Bloom
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Paris presents one incessant round of amusement & dissipation but very little, I believe - even for its inhabitants of that society - which interests the heart. Every day, you may see something new, magnificent & beautiful; every night, you may see a spectacle which astonishes & enchants the imagination.
John Marshall
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I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's limitless.
Cliff Martinez
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I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.
Javier Bardem
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The sociological imagination enables us to grasp history and biography and the relations between the two within society. This is its task and its promise.
C. Wright Mills
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Nothing was ever created by a human being that was not first created in the imagination through desire and then transformed into reality through concentration.
Napoleon Hill
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Growing up in a suburban home, the world seems so massive to you. It seems like cities are so big and so far away, and there's so much in them. So your imagination runs wild, instead of when you are born in the middle of Manhattan, you'd know, like, that this is the biggest city.
Shawn Mendes
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What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.
Doris Lessing
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For me, imagination would always provide a means of escape.
Christopher Fowler
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Nothing matters more to AA's future welfare than the manner in which we use the colossus of modern communication. Used unselfishly and well, it can produce results surpassing our present imagination.
William Griffith Wilson
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If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.
Connie Nielsen
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When I was a boy, I was a worrier, and so was my son, Joe. I used to tell him that worrying meant he had an imagination and that one day he'd be pleased.
Anthony Browne
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I really like dating stories, like in Betty and Veronica comics; I like David Lynch and H.P. Lovecraft for the dark gut-wrenching stuff, and I'm inspired by Miyazaki's films for the subtle heart-warming moments, as well as the moments that blew up my imagination.
Fred Seibert
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I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.
Lisi Harrison
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My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.
Andre Dubus III
