Famous Quotes
- People who think my books are autobiographical, which they're not, credit me with having a much better memory than I do. I do, however, have a powerful imagination.
- Curtis Sittenfeld on Imagination
- People write memoirs because they lack the imagination to make things up.
- Tom Robbins on Imagination
- Personality is more important than beauty, but imagination is more important than both of them.
- Laurette Taylor on Imagination
- Personally, I would sooner have written Alice in Wonderland than the whole Encyclopedia Britannica.
- Stephen Leacock on Imagination
- Philosophy and Art both render the invisible visible by imagination.
- George Henry Lewes on Imagination
- Poetry is that art which selects and arranges the symbols of thought in such a manner as to excite the imagination the most powerfully and delightfully.
- William C. Bryant on Imagination
- Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together.
- Jacques Maritain on Imagination
- Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
- Ian Mcewan on Imagination
- President Reagan was a leader at a time when the American people most needed leadership. He outlined a vision that captured the imagination of the free world, a vision that toppled the Communist empire and freed countless millions.
- Dennis Hastert on Imagination
- Pulp existed for 12 years before we got famous. Now, you could say that was just lack of imagination, but it's some kind of quality isn't it? Tenacity. You could also say it was sloth.
- Jarvis Cocker on Imagination
- Put off your imagination, as you put off your overcoat, when you enter the laboratory. Put it on again, as you put on your overcoat, when you leave.
- Claude Bernard on Imagination
- Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.
- LeVar Burton on Imagination
- Reality is how we interpret it. Imagination and volition play a part in that interpretation. Which means that all reality is to some extent a fiction.
- Yann Martel on Imagination
- Reality leaves a lot to the imagination.
- John Lennon on Imagination
- Reason clears and plants the wilderness of the imagination to harvest the wheat of art.
- Austin O'Malley on Imagination
- Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.
- C. S. Lewis on Imagination
- Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things.
- Percy Bysshe Shelley on Imagination
- Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.
- Les Baxter on Imagination
- Richard Hugo taught me that anyone with a desire to write, an ear for language and a bit of imagination could become a writer. He also, in a way, gave me permission to write about northern Montana.
- James Welch on Imagination
- Science does not know its debt to imagination.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson on Imagination
- Shakespeare fascinated me. He hardly ever left the country. His imagination was worldwide though reading.
- Michael Tippett on Imagination
- She has no imagination and that means no compassion.
- Michael Foot on Imagination
- Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
- Tom Stoppard on Imagination
- 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.
- Diana Krall on Imagination
- Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.
- James Russell Lowell on Imagination
- Some of my high school teachers did remind me that I had an excellent imagination when it came to making up excuses.
- David E. Kelley on Imagination
- Some of us are interested in directors, but really the vast majority of us are interested in actors. You experience the films through the actors, so they're all locked into your imagination in some kind of layer of fantasy or hatred or wherever they settle into your imagination.
- Danny Boyle on Imagination
- Some stories are true that never happened.
- Elie Wiesel on Imagination
- Someone once said that history has more imagination than all the scenario writers in the Pentagon, and we have a lot of scenario writers here. No one ever wrote a scenario for commercial airliners crashing into the World Trade Center.
- Paul Wolfowitz on Imagination
- Sometimes a character is really based on research that you do. Other times it's just based on your imagination or perhaps your conversation with the director. Or sometimes all of the above. It depends on the movie and character.
- Joaquin Phoenix on Imagination
- Sometimes a technology is so awe-inspiring that the imagination runs away with it - often far, far away from reality. Robots are like that. A lot of big and ultimately unfulfilled promises were made in robotics early on, based on preliminary successes.
- Daniel H. Wilson on Imagination
- Sometimes I feel like a figment of my own imagination.
- Lily Tomlin on Imagination
- Sometimes, surely, truth is closer to imagination or to intelligence, to love than to fact? To be accurate is not to be right.
- Shirley Hazzard on Imagination
- Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made.
- Bruce Catton on Imagination
- Suddenly the whole imagination of writing and editorial and newspaper and all these presumptions about who am I reading this, and who else other people may be, and all that, it's so grimly brutal!
- Robert Creeley on Imagination
- Suffering, it turns out, demands profound imagination. A new future has to be conjured up because the old future isn't there anymore.
- Rob Bell on Imagination
- Talent, lying in the understanding, is often inherited genius, being the action of reason or imagination, rarely or never.
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge on Imagination
- Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.
- Mason Cooley on Imagination
- Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
- Daniel Bell on Imagination
- Television contracts the imagination and radio expands it.
- Terry Wogan on Imagination
- That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
- George Berkeley on Imagination
- The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.
- Richard Wright on Imagination
- The capacity you're thinking of is imagination without it there can be no understanding, indeed no fiction.
- William Trevor on Imagination
- The Chinese art world does not exist. In a society that restricts individual freedoms and violates human rights, anything that calls itself creative or independent is a pretence. It is impossible for a totalitarian society to create anything with passion and imagination.
- Ai Weiwei on Imagination
- The conscious process is reflected in the imagination the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling.
- William Irwin Thompson on Imagination
- The costume that I wear on the show is a little snug and doesn't leave a whole lot to the imagination. I don't have a problem with it because of the way this character's been written.
- Jeri Ryan on Imagination
- The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.
- Carl Jung on Imagination
- The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is, in the end, the exact measure of his importance and dignity.
- George Santayana on Imagination
- The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between its position in the eternal world, with all its corruption and evils and cruelties, and the splendid world of our imagination.
- Richard Hofstadter on Imagination
- The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.
- Richard Powers on Imagination
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