Imagination Quotes
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Chess is imagination.
David Bronstein
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Peter Jackson has the sort of imagination that no one else has.
Lee Pace
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I'll make my report as if I told a story, for I was taught as a child on my homeworld that Truth is a matter of the imagination.
Ursula K. Le Guin
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But who can paint like Nature? Can imagination boast, amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
James Thomson
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He had prepared his death much earlier, in his imagination, unaware that his imagination, more creative than he, was planning the reality of that death.
Umberto Eco
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Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.
Franz Kafka
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Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.
Jasper Fforde
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Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination.
Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister Motörhead
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Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories. Memories of dust in my sneakers and humming whitewalls down a hill called Monkey.
Jerry Spinelli
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If you can capture a womans imagination, then you will have her. But imagination is a strange creature. It needs time and distance to function properly.
Kathleen Tessaro
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There is no connection between the political ideas of our educated class and the deep places of the imagination.
Lionel Trilling
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All of the stuff I can't afford to do on a TV budget, I just put into the comic book because you're really only limited in a comic by your artist's imagination.
Marc Guggenheim
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I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?
Jean-Claude Duvalier
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Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.
Georg Brandes
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Indulge your imagination in every possible flight.
Jane Austen
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I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.
Berkeley Breathed
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I wanted to inspire every little girl who wants to be a dancer to fire their imagination about the joys of being on the stage.
Darcey Bussell
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I love the idea of exploring the Victorian imagination and what Victorians thought the world of fantasy would look like.
James Bobin
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The curse of human nature is imagination. When a long anticipated moment comes, we always find it pitched a note too low, for the wings of imagination are crushed into its withering sides under the crowding hordes of petty realities.
Gertrude Atherton
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If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self- interest, you can have practically anything you go after.
Napoleon Hill
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So many of Spielberg's films inspired my imagination growing up. And then there are British films like 'The Full Monty' and 'Waking Ned Devine' that took me to places I really loved, with characters I just thought were amazing. But the films of Luc Besson showed me France - a really cool side of France.
Doug Liman
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No one can say 'He jests at scars who never felt a wound' for I have never for one moment been in a state of mind to which even the imagination of serious pain was less than intolerable. If any man is safe from the danger of under-estimating this adversary, I am that man.
C. S. Lewis
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For me, it's always a failure of the imagination. I have that anxiety that time is passing, that everything is ultimately fleeting and impermanent. I better take advantage of every single moment.
Jason Silva
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Work up imagination to the state of vision.
William Blake