What Is The Imagination Quotes

When their minds mingle with His magnanimity, something of eternity rubs off on their imaginations.

Imagination doesn't always make you long for what you cannot have, but rather thrive in what you do not have.

Wisdom is nothing more than confirmed imagination: just because one did not study for his exam does not mean that he should leave it blank.

How convinced are you that man was created in the image of God when you can't see the image of God?

I imagined I was God for a millisecond And became speechless for a long time.

A strange thing, words. Once they're said, it's hard to imagine they're untrue.

Only imagination and belief can differentiate from the rest certain objects, certain people, and can create an atmosphere.

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.

The imagination is always the best torturer.

I do think of Bombay as my hometown. Those are the streets I walked when I was learning to walk. And it's the place that my imagination has returned to more than anywhere else.

Play is the creation of value that is not necessary.

My life exists in an imagined reality.

I just had a crazy, wild imagination all my life, and science fiction is the greatest outlet for me.

Does the imagination dwell the most Upon a woman won or a woman lost?

I feel very warm towards Mum and Dad for giving us the independence they did. My childhood, and the fact we didn't have a TV, gave me a boundless imagination.

I left the fairy tales lying on the floor of the nursery, and I have not found any books so sensible since.

The glamour of air travel - its aspirational meaning in the public imagination - disappeared before its luxury did, dissipating as flying gradually became commonplace.

Those of our writers who have possessed a vivid personal talent have been paralyzed by a want of social background.

I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do.

Closed in a room, my imagination becomes the universe, and the rest of the world is missing out.

Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.

You can do more with a castle in a story than with the best cardboard castle that ever stood on a nursery table.

To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path

If we have received a precious gift from God, it is our imagination. When we tap into our powers of imagination, we are bombs of possibilities.

The value of a sentiment is the amount of sacrifice you are prepared to make for it.

To swear day and night by media slander will make one a bigger victim than the slandered. It doesn't take much to begin to fear a mere illusion of human badness.

Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real life.

The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.

I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.

Ah, he has too many ideas, that man da Vinci. His mind works faster than his hands.

It doesn't take any imagination at all to feel awed

I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.

But he was not kidnapped. ... It's in his imagination. He creates his own world and he believes it is reality.

After I had known [Barack Obama] for a while, I remember saying to my partner, "You know, this guy is really ambitious, I think he wants to be Mayor of Chicago." That was the limit of my imagination.

Imagination guides you in your contacts with individuals and crowds, so you can discover new concepts and approaches.

The dream world, the true freedom of the imagination, does not open to self-conscious manipulation.

Increasingly unable to create for itself a relevant body of myth, the modern imagination will ransack the treasure house of the classic.

I have imagination, and nothing that is real is alien to me.

Art is the response to the demand for entertainment, for the stimulation of our senses and imagination, and truth enters into it only as it subserves these ends.

A fanatical imagination cannot regard God as just unless he is represented as infinitely cruel.

There are real facts in my poems, but facts mixed up in the perverse stubborn stew of imagination, add a pinch or two of revenge and retribution, a dash of amplification and reparation.

Politics should seize the imagination.

A house with a great wine stored below lives in our imagination as a joyful house, fast and splendidly rooted in the soil.

I think cinema is the memory and the imagination of the country. Take the memory and imagination out of an individual, and he stops being an individual. I think its the same thing for a country.

Take the ideas that speak to you. Use your imagination. Create something wonderful.

For every person who can imagine a possibility there are tens of thousands who are stuck in the greased grooves of history.

In many cases your imagination is much more effective than what can be shown. It primes you to know something is about to happen - the anticipation and anxiety is worse than what ends up happening.

For the first time in history we can work backward from our imagination rather than forward from our past.