Imagination Quotes
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a letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the true pleasure of life may be tasted, the region of imagination, creative and protean, the clouds and beautiful shapes of whose heaven are destroyed by the wind of reality.
Vita Sackville-West
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Reading supplies bread for imagination to feed on and bones for it to chew on.
Alex Faickney Osborn
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I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.
Steven Spielberg
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Since childhood, I was afflicted with a sick hypersensitivity, and my imagination quickly turned everything into a memory, too quickly: sometimes one day was enough, or an interval of a few hours, or a routine change of place, for an everyday event with a lyrical value that I did not sense at the time, to become suddenly adorned with a radiant echo, the echo ordinarily reserved only for those memories which have been standing for many years in the powerful fixative of lyrical oblivion.
Danilo Kis
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Visualize what you want to do before you do it. Visualization is so powerful that when you know what you want, you will get it.
Audrey Flack
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The greatest single distinguishing feature of the omnipotence of God is that our imagination gets lost thinking about it.
Blaise Pascal
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My mother's people, the people who captured my imagination when I was growing up, were of the Deep South - emotional, changeable, touched with charisma and given to histrionic flourishes. They were courageous under tension and unexpectedly tough beneath their wild eccentricities, for they had and unusually close working agreement with God. They also had an unusually high quota of bullshit.
Willie Morris
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Vegetarianism is an act of the imagination. It reflects an ability to imagine alternatives to the texts of meat.
Carol J. Adams
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Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination. You are always living three, or indeed six, months hence. I believe that people entirely devoid of imagination never can be really good gardeners. To be content with the present, and not striving about the future, is fatal.
Alice Morse Earle
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I'm not writing non-fiction. I don't feel anything about me as a kid was unique. Except that I had more interest in being alone and using my imagination.
John Irving
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Purity of heart means the control of the imagination and the rigorous care of the affections.
F. B. Meyer
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I think Nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never gonna let us relax!
Richard Feynman