Top 997 Imagination Quotes & Sayings - Page 10

I did spend a lot of time as a child very confused about whether I had a devil in me, or whether I was in a state of grace. I mean, these ideas are so potent to anybody with half an imagination.

My favorite literature to read is fairly dry history. I like the framework, and my imagination can do the rest.

Doubt is the father of invention.

I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.

My mother was making $135 a week, but she had resilience and imagination. She might take frozen vegetables, cook them with garlic, onion and Spam, and it would taste like a four-star dinner.

When you're young you have no worries, no drama, only your imagination. It's the best!

We imagine that we want to escape our selfish and commonplace existence, but we cling desperately to our chains.

I can't work completely out of my imagination. I must put my foot in a bit of truth; and then I can fly free.

We know their names: Hippolyta, Antiope, Thessalia. But they were long thought to be just travelers' tales or products of the Greek storytelling imagination. A lot of scholars still argue that. But archaeology has now proven without a doubt that there really were women fitting the description that the Greeks gave us of Amazons and warrior women.

I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.

Everything is creative. It's all relative to me. No matter what, you've gotta use your imagination, use your senses.

I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.

There are many ways to be free. One of them is to transcend reality by imagination, as I try to do.

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.

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.

It's through the small things that we develop our moral imagination, so that we can understand the sufferings of others.

Imagination allows you to bend the rules of the temporal world.

Appealing workplaces are to be avoided. One wants a room with no view, so imagination can meet memory in the dark.

Justice is to be found only in imagination.

I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.

So much of what we do as artists is a combination of personal experience and imagination, and how that all creeps into your work is not so linear.

I don't know about everyone else, but I really loved lunch and recess because it was an opportunity to get carried away with your imagination.

The English language is nobody's special property. It is the property of the imagination: it is the property of the language itself.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Imagination, it turns out, is a great deal like reporting in your own head. Here is a paradox of fiction-writing. You are crafting something from nothing, which means, in one sense, that none of it is true. Yet in the writing, and perhaps in the reading, some of a character's actions or lines are truer than others.

I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.

I know kids who say they have nothing to do and then go plop themselves down in front of the television to watch a movie or play Nintendo or Xbox. I think there is nothing better for killing creativity and imagination.

To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.

I deeply adored my mum. She was an extraordinary person, even for the prejudice I'm likely to have. She was beautiful, amusing, a tremendous elaborator of things into comic proportions and extravagant in her imagination.

There are two - parallel - universes of science. One is the actual day-to-day work of scientists, patiently researching into all parts of the world and sometimes making amazing discoveries. The other is the role science plays in the public imagination - the powerful effect it has in shaping how millions of ordinary people see the world.

A writer loses possession of her work as soon as it's reaches its audience. Each reader brings his own experience and prejudice and imagination to the work. Television adaptation just goes one step further, and the novelist has to learn to let go.

I have fallen in love with the imagination. And if you fall in love with the imagination, you understand that it is a free spirit. It will go anywhere, and it can do anything.

The most imaginative people are the most credulous, for them everything is possible.

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.

New ideas pass through three periods: 1) It can't be done. 2) It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing. 3) I knew it was a good idea all along!

Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.

One longs for a director with a sense of imagination.

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.

Imagination and invention go hand in hand. Remember how lack of resources was never a problem in childhood games? Shift a few pieces of furniture around the living room, and you have yourself a fort.

The visionary imagination is the source of art and religion.

It's hard sometimes, especially with a book like 'Scorch Trials,' to truly adapt to the way the book is because so many of the scenes that take place in the book are really graphed and painted for the imagination. Trying to bring that to life is a really big task.

But the greatest thing about music is putting it out there for people to figure out. You want the listener to find the song on their own. If you give too much away, it takes away from the imagination.

I have a good imagination. Look, I know what it feels like to have a broken heart. I know what it feels like to feel something for somebody. I'm just too weird to be in a relationship.

People can't just listen to the music and have their own imagination and take them where they wanna go.

This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.

You have to really stretch your imagination to infer what the intrinsic value of Bitcoin is. I haven't been able to do it. Maybe somebody else can.

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

Where there is no imagination there is no horror.

But I'm never gonna get to a point in my life where what it costs to shoot a movie is going to determine what it is. The limits of my imagination is the only thing that's gonna stop me.

I am pretty scare-able. I guess that is why I like doing horror because my imagination can take me places.

I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Ellis Peters's historical detail is very accurate and very minute, and therefore is not only interesting to read but good for an actor to acquire a sense of the period. And the other thing I think is that an actor lives in the land of imagination.

Liberty: One of Imagination's most precious possessions.

I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation and is but a reflection of human frailty.

When it came to political power, blacks need not apply. Add to this steaming stew the growing tensions over the Vietnam War and the movement for civil rights, and you had plenty of elements to fire the imagination of a novice journalist.

When we had to do book reports, I would pick a book that no one read and just make it up and turn that in. I got praised for my imagination.