The Imagination Quotes

Imagine the vanity of thinking that your enemy can do you more damage than your enmity.

I believe in the art of literature, I believe in freedom of the imagination, I believe in the kind of liberties that we enjoy in these lucky countries of the world.

Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.

Of the present state, whatever it be, we feel and are forced to confess the misery; yet when the same state is again at a distance, imagination paints it as desirable.

Time is, of all modes of existence, most obsequious to the imagination.

When the eye or the imagination is struck with an uncommon work, the next transition of an active mind is to the means by which it was performed

Romances in general are calculated rather to fire the imagination, than to inform the judgment.

An acquaintance with the muses, in the education of youth, contributes not a little to soften manners. It gives a delicate turn to the imagination and a polish to the mind.

The Beautiful arises from the perceived harmony of an object, whether sight or sound, with the inborn and constitutive rules of the judgment and imagination: and it is always intuitive.

Finally, good sense is the body of poetic genius, fancy its drapery, motion its life, and imagination the soul that is everywhere and in each; and forms all into one graceful and intelligent whole.

Imagination that compares and contrasts with what is around as well as what is better and worse is the living power and prime agent of all human perception judgement and emotional reaction.

avarice is especially, I suppose, a disease of the imagination.

On the wings of fancy, gentle readers, bear yourselves into the mid-air, where by imagination you may form a large stupendous castle.

[T]he judicious reader ought to know what the chief character in any work of the imagination will naturally perform, according to the situation he is thrown into, as well as doth the author himself.

The imagination is a wonderful thing; it allows for all manner of undiscoverable sins.

All human accomplishment has the same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination.

I've always believed that true cinema is cinema of the imagination.

There is nothing worse than an enemy with imagination.

I don't define myself as an actor at all. Nor is that my greatest passion in life by any stretch of the imagination.

Most people are afraid to trust their imaginations and the artist is not.

You can make sounds and music out of pretty much anything with a little imagination and putting your mind to it!

Salander was afraid of no-one and nothing. She realized that she lacked the necessary imagination - and that was evidence enough that there was something wrong with her brain.

Politics in the middle of things of the imagination is like a pistol shot in the middle of a concert.

There's a lot of idiots in Hollywood, a lot of people with no imagination, so as an actor you have to constantly re-show them what you can do.

This is form and content and diction and tone and imagination all looking up at the exact same moment: When Molly Tanzer claps once at the front of the classroom.

This is probably the single great subject of horror fiction: our need to cope with a mystery that can be understood only with the aid of a helpful imagination.

Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.

The world is full of horror. Our imaginations struggle to keep up. It would be a poor life without imagining. I’m not sure we can have any salvation, in fact, without imagining.

Science fiction really is the only genre that lets you use your imagination without limitations.

It's a total failure of the Western imagination that the only enemy they can see is Adolph Hitler.

Having room to run and having just the space to use your imagination and create stories out of everyday life, I think that had a lot to do with me wanting write. And write songs

An exercise of moral imagination helps companies further goals of its members.

I fantasize about everything; being a fireman, an Indian chief, climbing mountains. Anything is possible.

What we call three dimensional space, and what we call the imagination actually have a contiguous and continuous transformation from one into the other, ... and THIS is big news!

Nature and the imagination seem to be the precursors to involvement in the psychedelic experience.

The human imagination, which is our great glory, has grown so powerful that we can barely unleash it on the surface of the planet.

When I was a kid, we had to rely on our imaginations for entertainment.

Well, I think that as a country, we've drifted away from appreciating the importance of imagination.

I'm up to my neck in the real world, every day. Just you try doing your VAT return with a head full of goblins.

Look, he said to his imagination, if this is how you're going to behave, I shan't bring you again.

How do we not rue the many unchosen paths in life? A blessed lack of imagination. There are enough real glories along any path to swamp our meager ability to picture alternatives.

I feel like we are at a time of great creativity if we choose to embrace it as such, if we choose to engage the will of our imaginations and imagine another way of being in the world.

We are striking it big in the electric light, better than my vivid imagination first conceived. Where this thing is going to stop Lord only knows.

In taste and imagination, in the graces of style, in the arts of persuasion, in the magnificence of public works, the ancients were at least our equals.

If ever Shakespeare rants, it is not when his imagination is hurrying him along, but when he is hurrying his imagination along.

It's fear, Jack. The man deals with a huge amount of fear.' Because he got hurt?' No, not entirely. Fear comes with imagination, it's a penalty, it's the price of imagination.

I would observe to you that what is called style in writing or speaking is formed very early in life while the imagination is warm, and impressions are permanent.

The worlds I paint leave a lot to engage the imagination by hinting at what lies beyond the four edges of the painting.

We refuse love, and reject society, in so far as it seems, in our own perverse imagination, to imply some obscure kind of humiliation

The anointed don't like to talk about painful trade-offs. They like to talk about happy "solutionsthat get rid of the whole problem- at least in their imagination.