Imagination Quotes

It takes as much imagination to create debt as to create income.

Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think I'm a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion.

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 t…

And, as I have said, it's made me think twice about the imagination. If the spirits aren't external, how astonishing the mediums become! Victor Hugo said of his voices that they were like his own men…

When you believe in what you're doing and use your imagination and initiative, you can make a difference.

Now, I'm a failed political consultant. But sometimes fiction has a way of capturing people's imagination in a way that non-fiction doesn't. Conservatives typically haven't written much fiction - spe…

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination.

A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.

My imagination is my polestar I steer by that.

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.

I think we're all a little afraid of the dark. If you lived in the country, as I did, there's nothing quite like country dark, which was really black. And as a child, your imagination runs wild.

I think reading is important for a variety of things. I mean, first of all, it's a way to get information and find out what's going on in the world. But also, it helps your imagination.

Writing a novel is not merely going on a shopping expedition across the border to an unreal land: it is hours and years spent in the factories, the streets, the cathedrals of the imagination.

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

When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.

With the world as it now presents itself, there is something perverse, and probably dysfunctional, about a person who stays in the same house for 40 years. What about the expanding family syndrome, t…

I always know exactly where my stories take place, which gives me something certain so I can use my imagination for the other stuff. I worry though, who wants to keep reading stories about Kalamazoo?

Be drawn to the visual arts for it can expand your imagination.

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

It takes great skill to tell a compelling story in under 60 seconds. These five directors have mastered the format, using their talent, craft and imagination to provide us with some of the most innov…

What I love most about animation is, it's a team sport, and everything we do is about pure imagination.

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

I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful.

I'd love to play more challenging roles, characters that would stretch my comfort zone and imagination.

The capacity you're thinking of is imagination without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.