The Imagination Quotes
He's like a storybook spirit, a little djinn or something, except instead of air or water his element is imagination.
Imagination is the parallel universe of a writer. If he is not responding to you in this world, he is probably responding to someone in the imaginary world.
Sometimes our worst fears aren't realized - though in my experience it's only to make room for the fears our imagination was insufficient to house.
I have a habit of letting my imagination run away from me. It always comes back though . . . drenched with possibilities.
You are...beyond my imagination. It's a wonder you can be touched at all.
There are some catastrophes that a poor writer's pen cannot describe and which he is obliged to leave to the imagination of his readers with a bald statement of the facts.
Up goes the rocket. Its golden grain falls, fertilising, upon the rich soil of my imagination.
I love when truth is stranger than fiction. It authenticates my wild imagination.
He sought an adventure but didn't find one. He was inexperienced and besides he didn't have too much imagination.
Does progress mean that we dissolve our ancient myths? If we forget our legends, I fear that we shall close an important door to the imagination
Merrick belonged to that class of reader who was able to forget with amazing ease the hand moving the characters behind the scenes of the novel.
If you can imagine a thing, then it has already existed, somewhere, somewhen, somehow.
If you start most of your sentences with 'Why Can't', 'Why Not', or 'What if', you'll build a stronger imagination.
If-Then" is a structured logic of humans' thought, who have memories and imagination in their mind. If both don't exist, Then this quote has never even been written.
People are made in such a way that if something inexplicable happens to them, they write it off to an overheated imagination.
He who lacks imagination lives but half a life. He has his experiences, he has his facts, he has his learning. But do any of these really live unless touched by the magic of the imagination?
Stab me if you can enjoy it - but not if it feels like a duty. Stab me vertically if I’m lying down and horizontally if I’m running
Although she was gregarious, she inadvertently separated herself from people because she was so often inside her own head, focusing on her creativity.
Lead's erasing then vanishingBanished from whatever it is they're drinking and it's cleanedRunning from the pitcher as if it's her fantasy
Our imagination goes ahead of us, bringing our yesterday's imagings into present realities.
People tend to misinterpret imagination for being willing to do everything, instead of having the capability to put your mind to anything. There is a difference.
I fake fake to have a fake life. Does that make me a real horse? Buy now for $777, wooden saddle sold separately. Real horseshoes not included. Imaginary ones – neither.
The right honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.
Possibility, or what we refer to as imagination, is 99% imitation. The real deal is only 1%. The problem is, this 1% is simultaneously referred to as Evil.
For the record, I'm not an indecisive person, and I'm not a coward. I just have a very detailed imaginary life, and it sometimes takes precedence over what's actually happening around me.
Earlier 18th-century literary language was not supple enough to connect the life of the imagination to that of the street.
One kind of walking which I do not recall seeing mentioned anywhere in the literature of the subject is imaginary walking.
If having an imagination means imagining all the things you don't have - imagining, in fact, the impossibility of your own happiness - is an imagination a good thing?
People always talk like there's a bright line between imagination and memory, but there isn't, at least not for me. I remember what I've imagined and imagine what I remember.
When you're living so intensely in your head there isn't any different between what you imagine and what actually takes place. Therefore, you're both omnipotent and powerless.
. . . a wind howling began, which seemed to form all over the country, as far as the imagination could grasp it through the gloom of the night.
The wretchedness of ordinary life, endured so gaily when it is part of our normal existence, is made far worse when it comes as something new, and is exaggerated by the working of the imagination.
Man came first through evolution. God came second through man's imagination.
My mother says: 'People who suffer from anxiety are usually those with the most vivid imaginations.
In a suspended psychic state, writers cull words and symbols from the mystical world of memory, imagination, and intuition.
I did not elaborate, nor did I need to. The human imagination is capable of anything when left on its own to fill in the blanks.
Immigration inevitably involves error and revision. What I imagined it would be, it's not. For better or worse, some mistake is unavoidable.