My Imagination Quotes
In our exterior life, we can be only one person. But in our imagination, we can be anyone, anywhere.
Another side to me is this very sexual being. When I look back on my life, it's always been there. It's been there since I was 10 years old, having the imagination that I had.
My name is Jarrett Krosoczka, and I write and illustrate books for children for a living. So I use my imagination as my full-time job.
Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.
Imaginations blossom amidst memories. One judiciously separates them - but is there really any point in that? Doesn't truth suffer when one amputates it from its context of dreams?
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?
The book is even quirkier, but it's hard to bring all of that stuff to a movie. With a book, you use your imagination more and create your own way to make it all make sense.
I'm a figment of your imagination. You're only imagining that I'm sitting here eating with you. Because I'm just so freaking awesome that people daydream about being seen with me.
I think that it's sexier not to show everything. I feel that people's imaginations can do way more.
Can the imagination, any more than the boy, be held prisoner ?" - from the foreword to the 1976 edition of "The Painted Bird
I think fiction is all about the exercise of the empathetic imagination. Part of what I do is let the stuff I read about meld with what I have experienced.
Our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.
An idea is a method of evading, circumventing or surmounting through reflection, obstacles that otherwise would have to be attacked by brute force.
Great works of the imagination are not produced quickly nor do they take quick effect on the popular mind.
It's easier to write about a place sometimes when you've left it, when you can apply your imagination to your memory and let your emotions guide the writing about a place.
He knew the world and its absurdities as only an intelligent Irishman can; which is to say that where his knowledge or memory failed him, his imagination was always ready to fill the gap.
Imagination is the most powerful tool you have. You learn it from all the greats. The Star Wars films are secretive. Anything J.J. Abrams does is secretive. Those guys haven't done too poorly.
Technology tends to fuel the imagination. People with a technological bent can get excited by sometimes the most hazardous technologies, if they think they can harness them safely.
Mars tugs at the human imagination like no other planet. With a force mightier than gravity, it attracts the eye to the shimmering red presence in the clear night sky.
The virtue of the imagination is its reaching, by intuition and intensity, a more essential truth than is seen at the surface of things.
Most people who are trying to write kind of sit in their basements and pull it out of their imaginations.
The imagination is unleashed by constraints. You break out of the box by stepping into shackles.
Men of great parts are often unfortunate in the management of public business, because they are apt to go out of the common road by the quickness of their imagination.
There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.
Whenever men have looked for something solid on which to found their lives, they have chosen not the facts in which the world abounds, but the myths of an immemorial imagination.
What gods are there, what gods have there ever been, that were not from man's imagination?
Love is ...not a fact in nature of which we become aware, but rather a creation of the human imagination.
I have an active imagination, and music opens the floodgates of that area of my brain.
Childhood is the province of the imagination and when I immerse myself in it, I re-create it as it was, as it could have been, as I wanted - and didn't want - it to be.
My husband says I have too much imagination, but I don't think a writer can have too much imagination!
I'm a writer of faith. I was raised Catholic, and I have a deeply Catholic imagination.
I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.
No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.