The Imagination Quotes

For him and his brother, he now knew, that music was real. Becuase all you had to do, really, was be willing to use your imagination. And listen.

What's cool is when you're able to give your audience imagination and you don't have to cage them in like animals.

Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.

Keep in mind that imagination is at the heart of all innovation. Crush or constrain it and the fun will vanish.

Living too much in one's head can be dangerous.

Love requires imagination more than experience.

I remember my own childhood vividly...I knew terrible things. But I knew I mustn't let adults know I knew. It would scare them

But oh! each visitation Suspends what nature gave me any my birth, My shaping spirit of Imagination.

For me, the arts are just an endless source of intelligence, brilliance, imagination, and originality.

For as long as I can remember, I've always had a wild imagination and always enjoyed reading and writing.

...one may say anything about the history of the world - anything that might enter the most disordered imagination. The only thing one can't say is that it's rational.

Faced with an exciting question, science tended to provide the dullest possible answer. Ions might charge the air but they fell flat when it came to charging the imagination - my imagination, anyway.

We are never either so fortunate or so misfortunate as we imagine.

Poetry and imagination begin life. A child will fall on its knees on the gravel walk at the sight of a pink hawthorn in full flower, when it is by itself, to praise God for it.

It behooves us to be careful what we worship, for what we are worshipping we are becoming.

Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.

Fancy is imagination in her youth and adolescence. Fancy is always excursive; imagination, not seldom, is sedate.

Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense.

I would love to be able to write a tragedy in my imagination--it would turn into a masterpiece.

Even when we look at nature, our imagination constructs the picture.

The little ones still remember how to use the power of their imagination. They are still engaged in the utilization of their imagination, that is one of the reasons that keeps them so exhilarated.

A fine woman shews her charms to most advantage when she seems most to conceal them. The finest bosom in nature is not so fine as what imagination forms.

Knowledge, like experience, is valid in fiction only after it has dissolved and filtered down through the imagination into reality.

True invective requires great imagination.

To be an actor or actress, you have to feel on a deep level and tap into emotions that you've never felt before. You're imagining how something would feel. You have to use your imagination so much.

Imagination of my kind is most caught, most fired, most worked upon by the unfamiliar: I have thrivenon the changes and chances, the dislocations andcontrasts which have made up so much of my life.

Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented people.

Music always stimulates my imagination. When I'm writing I usually have some Baroque music on low in the background chamber music by Bach, Telemann, and the like.

The greatest gift you can give a child is an imagination.

A writer who attempts to live on the manufacture of his imagination is continually coquetting with starvation.

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

Solidity, caution, integrity, efficiency. Lack of imagination, hypocrisy. These qualities characterize the middle classes in everycountry, but in England they are national characteristics.

As a species, we create tools to control our environment. What excites my imagination is wilderness: our materials' ability to escape our control.

Space and time are figments of you're imagination, unless the guy you're flying next to won't shut up.

The simple truth is that interstellar distances will not fit into the human imagination.

What is reality but the dreamworld of a limited imagination.

I don't know if we ever have enough distance to "see" our own trajectory. We're in the muddled middle of it. Who knows what will last, what poems will take hold of the imaginations of the future.

All these things that crib and cab in your brain, in your imagination, are in fact things that might well in later life drive you insane.

I'm not a dancer, so I have to find a movement that belongs to me. I dance within my limits and with my imagination.

Imagination is the will of things. . . .

In every race there is a crucial moment when the body wants to quit. Then it needs imagination and mental tenacuty to survive the crisis. Otherwise the penalty is defeat.

Our imagination often is more horrifying than being shown something.

The subject of management is man; the objective of management is the moving of man's mind and will and imagination.

The death of Satan was a tragedy For the imagination.

Imagination is only intelligence having fun. A healthy mind knows how to switch between worlds, and which one you need to eat and sleep in.

The most marvelous experience of life is to transform life according to reality, not imagination.

I think that is the secret of great acting. You have to bring your imagination to the party. You've got to have a great imagination.

The way I think of the psychedelics is, they are catalysts to the imagination.

A financer is a pawnbroker with an imagination.

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