The Imagination Quotes

An everlasting tranquility is, in my imagination, the highest possible felicity, because I know of no felicity on earth higher than that which a peaceful mind and contented heart afford.

The figure of my father looms large in my imagination.

When my youngest daughter got married, I designed her wedding dress and I really let my imagination and energy go crazy! All the journalists seemed to love that dress.

I've basically made a career out of my imagination. I feel very lucky.

Part of what I love about television is that my imagination gets to keep going. It doesn't stop.

I guess I'm not really involving my imagination to that of a circumstance or happening - I'm just kind of acknowledging it as an existence.

I'm not a scientist. I just read articles that are interesting and that capture my imagination, but I think there's a reason why there's so much faith placed in science.

It was like there was a pile of kindling that was in the back of my imagination just waiting there. Once I lit it, it just flared up and I kept getting ideas and ideas.

I love her not with my mind or my imagination, but with my whole being. Loving her I feel myself to be an integral part of all God's joyous world.

I was a terrible athlete and a pretty bad student. I couldn't focus. My imagination was always racing.

Freedom, to me, is imagination, the power of imagination to create what we want and be who we want to be.

This extraordinary group has absolutely captivated my imagination, knocked my socks off - what more can I say?

I myself was terrified during the Second World War. The war started when I was six, and I was so sure that we were going to be bombed and killed. My imagination is my biggest plus and my worst minus.

Well, I have an idea, usually a visual image of some sort. A setting. A particular, I don't know, urban scene, a particular time of day. Something that grips my imagination for some reason.

There is a vision for my life that is greater than my imagination can hold.

I am not married to any particular genre. I am more interested in projects that capture my imagination and move me in a way that I can spend a year of my life working on it.

If I don't shut down my brain soon, my imagination will take off so far about what could be with this guy, that nothing will ever just be.-- Norah, Nick & Norah's Infinite Playlist

My guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere.

A man said to me, "You talk to your dead guru?" And I said, "Yeah." He said, "That's in your imagination." And I said, "Yeah!" Because my guru is in my imagination anywhere. Anywhere.

My best investment is my imagination because it has never failed to bring me my greatest return.

The thought of a comedy with paid prostitutes always seemed so silly and purposeless, for a person hired by me could never take the place of my imagination of a 'cruel mistress'.

Is it my imagination, or does shipping and handling settle a box of crackers more than it used to?

Of course, I had a paradigm of a certain city in my head when I wrote these stories, a city that inspired my imagination, but it was only inspiration.

The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

In recent poems, I have abandoned the theme of not being able to write for an even more obsessive subject, the nature of language, particularly English, in the formation of my imagination and being.

I can't remember ever feeling so glad that a movie was finally over. [Director George] Lucas may have held my imagination hostage for two hours, but reclaiming it afterward wasn't hard at all.

I think that's the problem with kids now. Everything is manufactured. And then they're sitting there watching the television, where all the work is done for them. Radio made me use my imagination.

I love working with technology because it allows me to follow my imagination and to invent new things.

If you happen to capture my imagination for some reason and I decide to write about you and you don't like what I wrote about you, which is entirely possible, then yes, I'm a dangerous writer.

It's because I'm a feminist that I can't stand women limiting other women's imaginations. It really makes me angry.

Literature is a beautiful way of keeping the imagination alive, of visiting worlds you would never have time to in your day-to-day life. It keeps you abreast of a wider spectrum of human activities.

The darkness inside your head is something your imagination fills with stories that have nothing to do with the real darkness around you.

My favorite action movie growing up was 'Supergirl.' It wasn't good by any stretch of the imagination, but it was my favorite because I wanted to be her. I have a Supergirl tattoo.

Despair, when not the response to absolute physical and moral defeat is, like war, the failure of imagination.

War is an absolute failure of imagination, scientific and political.

A woman who doesn't lie is a woman without imagination and without sympathy.

I grew up in a desert, which has no kind of imagination.

Let her love God as He is in Himself, and not as her imagination says He is, and pictures Him.

Most churches don't have the resources for these tricks and inducements but are still bound to the imagination that church happens on a Sunday in a building.

Imagination is greater than knowledge.

The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination.

With imagination, we can hold a universe inside our minds.

It becomes an extension of your imagination to make something tangible and concrete.

Imagination in poetry, as distinguished from mere fancy is the transfiguring of the real or actual to the ideal.

Heredity, to our understanding is not capable of giving to this illness (paraphilia) its characteristic form ... Heredity invents nothing, creates nothing anew; it has no imagination.

The whole of mathematics consists in the organization of a series of aids to the imagination in the process of reasoning.

Imagination is not to be divorced from the facts. It is a way of illuminating the facts.

That is the joy of reading fiction: when all is said and done, the novel belongs to the reader and his or her imagination.

Anyone with an imagination can write about the day-to-day experiences of someone he or she is not.

The making of fiction takes literally what is suggested by our imagination.