Imagination Quotes

I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

His imagination conceived and bore - worlds; but nothing in these worlds became alive until he discovered its true and living name. The name was the breath of life; and, sooner or later, he invariably found it.

There are lots of people who mistake their imagination for their memory.

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.

Yes, I was correctly quoted in saying I introduced sex into films in the 20's, but it was sex in good taste and left a great deal to one's imagination.

Imagination has brought mankind through the dark ages to its present state of civilization. Imagination led Columbus to discover America. Imagination led Franklin to discover electricity.

Toy Soldiers was my introduction to film. I certainly didn't think I was doing art by any stretch of the imagination.

As an actor I think sometimes producers need a little bit of encouragement to see you in a particular role, they may not have as much imagination as you would expect.

If you use your imagination, you can look at any actress and see her nude... I hope to make you use your imagination.

We all know here that the law is the most powerful of schools for the imagination. No poet ever interpreted nature as freely as a lawyer interprets the truth.

Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

Only in your imagination can you revise.

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.

We are the miracle of force and matter making itself over into imagination and will. Incredible. The Life Force experimenting with forms. You for one. Me for another. The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.

No amount of skillful invention can replace the essential element of 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.

Fools act on imagination without knowledge, pedants act on knowledge without imagination.

I've never really had a problem with the imagination level of an audience. They're always smarter and savvier than any studio exec will give them credit for.

Free enterprise empowers entrepreneurs who have ideas and imagination, investors who take risks, and workers who hone their skills and offer their labor.

The higher the artist, the fewer the gestures. The fewer the tools, the greater the imagination. The greater the will, the greater the secret failure.

Imagination is not something apart and hermetic, not a way of leaving reality behind; it is a way of engaging reality.

I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the heart's affections, and the truth of imagination.

I don't like this idea of Method. I come from that school, but what I was taught was that it's your imagination. You do your homework, and you use your imagination.

To put up a show is to face life's injustices with one of the few weapons available to a desperate and brave people, their imagination.

Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.

The level of our success is limited only by our imagination and no act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted.

When you are young your imagination is so clear.

In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

Never forget that the key to the situation lies in the will and not in the imagination.

To put yourself in another's place requires real imagination, but by doing so each Girl Scout will be able to love among others happily.