The Imagination Quotes
L'imagination est la reine du vrai, et le possible est une des provinces du vrai. Imagination is the queen of the truth and the possible is one of the provinces of the truth.
The moon likes secrets," Meran said. "And secret things. She lets mysteries bleed into her shadows and leaves us to ask whether they originated from otherworlds, or from our own imaginations.
Love, however, is very materially assisted by a warm and active imagination: which has a long memory, and will thrive, for a considerable time, on very slight and sparing food.
When we hate a person, with an intimate, imaginative, human hatred, we enter into his mind, or sympathize -- any strong interest will arouse the imagination and create some sort of sympathy.
Ridley creates a very immersive world, so when you walk up to a Ridley Scott film set you're in Ridley Scott's imagination, and it's a really comfortable, cool place to be.
I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it’s great to be a part of and watch.
Chess truly uncovers whether or not someone has imagination and takes initiative.
It is an overactive imagination that turns men into cowards, not a surfeit of fear, as many believe
Not everything you hear about yourself can be considered good publicity. And if you have delicate sensibilities, the currycomb of public imagination frequently rubs your vanities the wrong way.
Abortion is not an issue with the American people. It is a figment of your imagination if you think that this is an issue that is talked about a lot.
Speaking as a novelist myself, I know that members of our profession live in our imaginations as much or more as we inhabit what people call 'the real world.
Imagination, that dost so abstract us That we are not aware, not even when A thousand trumpets sound about our ears!
Computers operate on simple principles that can be easily understood by anybody with some common sense, a little imagination, and an IQ of 750.
I'm ever curious about the world. I'm driven to go out and find new things to write about. Having a vivid imagination is also a plus.
As an actor you use your imagination to put yourself in the shoes of bad guy characters. You create a story as to why you are doing it. You are finding what drives people to do this.
I've always felt that anyone who wants to talk about my private life is only demonstrating the paucity of his/her imagination when there are so many more important and exciting things to discuss.
My books are inert as cordwood till a readers imagination ignites one and an old flame jumps to life.
A great deal of phenomenal experience has fostered in me a flexibility of the mind and imagination that some might call madness
The true nature of the world was weirder than any bizarre fabric that anyone might weave from the warp and weft of imagination's loom.
One of the wonderful aspects of the human imagination is its power to break through the barriers of time and space. It can see things not as they are but as the can be.
The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.
I'm fairly certain. I could be some ghastly hallucination, a figment of my own imagination
I thought I could make out Jamie's Highland screech, but that was likely imagination; they all sounded equally demented.
The possibilities for mobilizing the experience, imaginations, and intelligence of workers, both employed and unemployed, are limitless.
I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.
It’s hard to land a devastating jab/cross/hook/uppercut combo to your reader’s imagination when you’re telegraphing your punches.
I don't think I've reached perfection by any stretch of the imagination, but maybe someday I'll become a perfectionist.
Liberty is never out of bounds or off limits; it spreads wherever it can capture the imagination of men.
Modern industry seems to be inefficient to a degree that surpasses one's enduring powers of imagination. Its inefficiency therefore remains unnoticed.
To search for unasked questions, plus questions to put to already acquired but unsought answers, it is vital to give full play to the imagination. That is the way to create truly original science.
There was an iciness, a sinking, a sickening of the heart - an unredeemed dreariness of thought which no goading of the imagination could torture into aught of the sublime
A painting is above all a product of the artist's imagination, it must never be a copy. If, at a later stage, he wants to add two or three touches from nature, of course it doesn't spoil anything.
The imagination is not the consolation people pretend. It can even be regarded as the admission of some sort of failure.
What is new about Barthes's posthumous reputation is the view of him as a writer whose books of criticism and personal musings must be admired as serious and beautiful works of the imagination.
What I have learned from my own experience is that the most important ingredients in a child's education are curiosity, interest, imagination, and a sense of the adventure of life.