Imagination Quotes

The Polar Express is about faith, and the power of imagination to sustain faith. It's also about the desire to reside in a world where magic can happen, the kind of world we all believed in as children, but one that disappears as we grow older.

It is impossible to imagine the universe run by a wise, just and omnipotent God, but it is quite easy to imagine it run by a board of gods.

I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

Cooking with kids is not just about ingredients, recipes, and cooking. It's about harnessing imagination, empowerment, and creativity.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule, and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

I don't want to go on much longer, really. I think that would suggest a lack of imagination. A certain lack of dignity also.

Writing gives me the opportunity to explore ideas, play with language, solve problems, use my imagination, and draw on my own childhood.

Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination.

I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action.

Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

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

One is never fortunate or as unfortunate as one imagines.

I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from.

I definitely gravitate towards quality genre projects and genre of any kind whether it's science fiction, horror or really anything. I'm just drawn to quality. I don't think 'Darkness Falls' is horror; there isn't any gore by any stretch of the imagination.

Imagination, the supreme delight of the immortal and the immature, should be limited. In order to enjoy life, we should not enjoy it too much.

Dreaming is an act of pure imagination, attesting in all men a creative power, which if it were available in waking, would make every man a Dante or Shakespeare.

The world is not run by thought, nor by imagination, but by opinion.

Science does not know its debt to imagination.

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

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

You need imagination in order to imagine a future that doesn't exist.

Imagination creates reality.

In the beginning, we had a great deal of freedom, and Jerry wrote completely out of his imagination - very, very freely. We even had no editorial supervision to speak of, because they were in such a rush to get the thing in before deadline. But later on we were restricted.

I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.

I like to have a thing suggested rather than told in full. When every detail is given, the mind rests satisfied, and the imagination loses the desire to use its own wings.

The man who will use his skill and constructive imagination to see how much he can give for a dollar, instead of how little he can give for a dollar, is bound to succeed.

Just about this time, when in imagination I was so great a warrior, I had good use in real life for more strength, as I was no longer taken to school by the nurse, but instead had myself to protect my brother, two years my junior.

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

Falling in love consists merely in uncorking the imagination and bottling the common sense.