Top imagination Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of imagination quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Elizabeth Wurtzel
My imagination, my ability to understand the way love and people grow over time, how passion can surprise and renew, utterly failed me.
- Elizabeth Wurtzel
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Image of Mo Rocca
A young imagination is bold, likes to make bigger leaps. It likes to, well, imagine that the dustbuster is a dinosaur; that the computer mouse is a hotrod; that the box is a cave; that the rawhide is a torch... or a baton... or something.
- Mo Rocca
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Image of Paul Wolfowitz
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
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Image of Fred G. Gosman
A child who has never fantasized about having other parents is seriously lacking in imagination.
- Fred G. Gosman
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Image of Shigeru Miyamoto
I think what's really the most ideal thing is for the player themselves, within their own imagination, to carve out what they view as being the essence of the character.
- Shigeru Miyamoto
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Image of Peter Ackroyd
London has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.
- Peter Ackroyd
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Image of Rob Walton
I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.
- Rob Walton
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Image of Laura Hillenbrand
I'm looking for a way out of here. I can't have it physically, so I'm going to have it intellectually. It was a beautiful thing to ride Seabiscuit in my imagination. And it's just fantastic to be there alongside Louie as he's breaking the NCAA mile record. People at these vigorous moments in their lives - it's my way of living vicariously.
- Laura Hillenbrand
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Image of Robert South
It is the work of fancy to enlarge, but of judgment to shorten and contract; and therefore this must be as far above the other as judgment is a greater and nobler faculty than fancy or imagination.
- Robert South
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Image of Sufjan Stevens
I feel like the Internet needs to be disarmed in some way. There needs to be a philosophical undermining of the Internet. We take it too seriously and too literally. For a reference we go to Wikipedia, which is full of inaccuracies and misinformation. It's kind of beautiful - it's all the product of imagination; it's not reality at all.
- Sufjan Stevens
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Image of Nathan Fillion
'Castle' is a guy living in a fantasy world. He's in his imagination, writing these stories of murder.
- Nathan Fillion
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Image of Ian Mcewan
Politics is the enemy of the imagination.
- Ian Mcewan
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Image of Renny Harlin
You want to do something that shows some type individuality and talent and imagination - at the same time, you want to be truthful to the predecessors, because obviously the audience liked something about them and you have to replicate that experience to a certain extent.
- Renny Harlin
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Image of Juno Temple
I had this wild imagination. I was never me. All my childhood photos, I'm in fancy dress, playing a Russian refuge or Marvelous Mad Madam Mim.
- Juno Temple
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Image of Ahmet Zappa
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.
- Ahmet Zappa
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Image of William Irwin Thompson
Catastrophes are often stimulated by the failure to feel the emergence of a domain, and so what cannot be felt in the imagination is experienced as embodied sensation in the catastrophe.
- William Irwin Thompson
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Image of Arthur Keith
Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.
- Arthur Keith
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Image of Bruno Rossi
The initial motivation of the experiment which led to this discovery was a subconscious feeling for the inexhaustible wealth of nature, a wealth that goes far beyond the imagination of man.
- Bruno Rossi
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Image of Robert Creeley
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
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Image of James Merrill
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 mental powers multiplied by five.
- James Merrill
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Image of Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.
- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Image of Curtis Sittenfeld
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
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Image of Arthur Wing Pinero
A financier is a pawnbroker with imagination.
- Arthur Wing Pinero
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Image of Dennis Potter
The thing about imagination is that by the very act of putting it down, there must be some truth in one's own imagination.
- Dennis Potter
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Image of Charles Horton Cooley
If we divine a discrepancy between a man's words and his character, the whole impression of him becomes broken and painful; he revolts the imagination by his lack of unity, and even the good in him is hardly accepted.
- Charles Horton Cooley
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Image of John Hawkes
As an actor you have to have a strong vivid imagination as you're working and when the camera's rolling, but there's certainly a part of you that is aware of real life, that you're making a movie.
- John Hawkes
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Image of Thomas Carlyle
Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.
- Thomas Carlyle
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Image of Jessica Hagedorn
We didn't have television until I was about eight years old, so it was either the movies or radio. A lot of radio drama. That was our television, you know. We had to use our imagination. So it was really those two things, and the comics, that I immersed myself in as a child.
- Jessica Hagedorn
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Image of Elizabeth Drew
The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.
- Elizabeth Drew
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Image of Kevin Smith
You can have 10 bucks to 10 million bucks and if you got a crew, imagination and a lot of people willing to turn in some work next to nothing, you going to have a feature. But you can't get beyond how expensive marketing the movie is, it's so crushing.
- Kevin Smith
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Image of Charlie Hunter
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.
- Charlie Hunter
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Image of Yvonne Craig
Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.
- Yvonne Craig
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Image of Carl Clinton Van Doren
Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
- Carl Clinton Van Doren
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Image of Rickie Lee Jones
I've always had an active imagination.
- Rickie Lee Jones
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Image of Gene Roddenberry
Normal television limits what you can do. With science fiction, you can exercise your imagination more. I fell in love with it.
- Gene Roddenberry
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Image of Isaac D'Israeli
To think, and to feel, constitute the two grand divisions of men of genius - the men of reasoning and the men of imagination.
- Isaac D'Israeli
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Image of Karl Kraus
If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
- Karl Kraus
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Image of Abhinav Bindra
I do believe the aura of the Olympics is the greatest platform for sport and when one achieves success there it is sure to fire up the imagination of the youth.
- Abhinav Bindra
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Image of Carly Rae Jepsen
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.
- Carly Rae Jepsen
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Image of Michelle Forbes
It's a wonderful thing working with young actors. I know a lot of people don't like working with children. I actually adore it, because you watch their imagination open up and you watch them start to learn this job that I've been doing for so long. They come with such a lack of cynicism.
- Michelle Forbes
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Image of Agnes Smedley
Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
- Agnes Smedley
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Image of Leslie Banks
I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.
- Leslie Banks
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Image of Ronnie James Dio
Lyrically I like to use themes that make the listener use his or her imagination, and to give a little of the lessons I've learned in my own life.
- Ronnie James Dio
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Image of Michael C. Hall
I certainly know there are people in positions of power in the business who lack imagination and, perhaps as a result of that, think of me as 'David'. But I wouldn't really want to work with those people, you know?
- Michael C. Hall
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Image of Adam Gopnik
The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.
- Adam Gopnik
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Image of Berkeley Breathed
I'll confess right here that I secretly wish I'd have drawn a strip about a little boy with a fake tiger, going for adventures throughout the universe in spaceships of his imagination.
- Berkeley Breathed
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Image of Richard Eyre
A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.
- Richard Eyre
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Image of Michael Moriarty
If they want to talk about aliens and anything like that... that's part of the gift God gave us. That's what makes life exciting. We're pretty stuck, you know. What gives flight to our life is our imagination.
- Michael Moriarty
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Image of Mark Bradford
When I was thirteen, I was in a supermarket with my mother, and for no reason at all, I picked up a science-fiction book at the checkout stand and started reading it. I couldn't believe I was doing that, actually reading a book. And, man, it opened up a whole new thing. Reading became the sparkplug of my imagination.
- Mark Bradford
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Image of Brian Cox
Charles Laughton, who's a great hero of mine, only ever made one film and it happens to be one of the great films ever, which is 'The Night of the Hunter.' It's full of his kind of imagination and creation and how you do things and just in the way he used the studio, I just thought it was a fantastical way of using the studio.
- Brian Cox
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