Top 997 Imagination Quotes & Sayings - Page 9

I had grown up as an Irish poet in a country where the distance between vision and imagination was not quite as wide as in some other countries.

Vulgarity begins when imagination succumbs to the explicit.

Busted is not the ideal band I'd like to be in by any stretch of the imagination.

I believe in the imagination. What I cannot see is infinitely more important than what I can see.

To them though, not to us, we were just a catalyst for their imagination.

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.

I didn't really hear any other music other than what my dad was working on until I was 12. My recollection of hearing other music was that I liked some things that I heard but I always thought, 'Where's the rest of it?' It didn't have the same amount of detail or instrumentation or imagination in the arrangements.

It's just a way of trying to get to a third thing that's not particular to any quote-unquote genre. It's been great for me; it's really opened me up and gotten me to use that part of my imagination. It's very scary in a lot of ways, and just as exciting.

I think about freedom and the urgency around our imagination. If you can't imagine it, you can't fight for it.

Grant that the true organ with which the beautiful is apprehended is the imagination, and it follows that all arts are likely to affect the feelings indirectly.

They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.

The saddest thing I can imagine is to get used to luxury.

There are moments when a man's imagination, so easily subdued to what it lives in, suddenly rises above its daily level and surveys the long windings of destiny.

It will take some time before a politician will capture the imagination of the American people and have the vision and understanding to do what is necessary for a better future for the people of America and the world.

It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the extraordinary.

I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.

There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination.

An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.

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 always have this imagination, something I want to use. I don't understand the idea of leisure time.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

I am an actor and I live in the world of pretend in my working capacity. I live in the world of my imagination.

A man to carry on a successful business must have imagination. He must see things as in a vision, a dream of the whole thing.

I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.

The opportunities of man are limited only by his imagination. But so few have imagination that there are ten thousand fiddlers to one composer.

I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.

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.

I've got research, I have my own life experience I can apply, and I have my imagination.

I always imagined I could be what I wanted to be.

I never did very well in math - I could never seem to persuade the teacher that I hadn't meant my answers literally.

Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

What really fascinates me is this need that is so strong now that if you read a work of the imagination you instantly have to say, 'Oh, what this really is is so-and-so,' reducing it to a simple formula.

The human imagination has already come to conceive the possibility of recreating human society.

Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!

By going over your day in imagination before you begin it, you can begin acting successfully at any moment.

We're living in a time when the world has suddenly discovered India because it's run out of raw material for its imagination. The raw materials for imagination are inexhaustible here.

There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

It is all very well to copy what one sees, but it is far better to draw what one now only sees in one's memory. That is a transformation in which imagination collaborates with memory.

We have a vision of creating an imagination platform - the ultimate platform for play. A place for kids around the world to play, create, build and imagine together.

I think that different actors go about their preparation differently, but when it comes to acting, I use my imagination.

'The Outpost' is an exciting fantasy with a strong female lead that will capture the imagination of fans of both 'Game of Thrones' and 'Wonder Woman.'

Ultimately it's a leap of faith and a leap of imagination to put yourself back in time into those conditions and situations and see how you would react.

I think it's fun to play with worlds that you can add a lot of your own imagination to. With 'True Blood,' you're not limited by anything, there are just leaps and bounds of the imagination you can take with these characters.

It is not that the child lives in a world of imagination, but that the child within us survives and starts into life only at rare moments of recollection, which makes us believe, and it is not true, that, as children, we were imaginative?

You may be sure that the Americans will commit all the stupidities they can think of, plus some that are beyond imagination.

You know, working as an actor, I'm always working within my own imagination.

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

The product of the scientific imagination is a new vision of relations - like that of artistic imagination.

But in a 24-hour day, the 25th hour is also the impossible hour, an hour that doesn't exist, that can only be created by the imagination.

You really have to be in touch with your soul and spirit and your imagination - it keeps you in shape, and it makes you like yourself a bit more.

If you're not a daydreamer, you haven't got any imagination.

True originality consists not in a new manner but in a new vision.

I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.

You'd have to have one hell of an imagination to completely make up a story, but historians are very anal about what they think should be portrayed on screen. Thankfully they don't make movies; we do.

You are indebted to you imagination for three-fourths of your importance.

I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.

Death? Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination, try to visualize a world without death! Death is the essential condition of life, not an evil.

The outlaw, in the American imagination, is a subject of romance - a 'good' bad man, he is typically a master of escape, a crack shot, a ladies' man.

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

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.