Imagination Quotes

Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper!
– George William Curtis
Imagination is as vital to any advance in science as learning and precision are essential for starting points.
– Percival Lowell
Imagination has rules, but we can only guess what they are.
– Mason Cooley
Imagination is a beast that has to be put in a cage.
– Timothy Spall
Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful in the mature than in the young.
– W. Somerset Maugham
Imagination has a great deal to do with winning.
– Mike Krzyzewski
Imagination decides everything.
– Blaise Pascal
Imagination comes of not having things.
– LeRoy Neiman
Imagination creates some big monsters.
– Olivier Martinez
If you don't pay attention and if your imagination isn't pretty much engaged, you're going to miss things and you're going to miss opportunities for it to be as compelling and as creepy as it can be.
– Bruce Greenwood
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
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
If there is a book that the script came from you have to read it, you have to see what you can get out of it: mood, back story and things that may not even be in the film. They kick off your imagination and broaden the character, I think.
– Miranda Otto
If my accent betrayed my foreign birth, it also stamped me as an enemy, in the imagination of the producers.
– Bela Lugosi
If Copenhagen were a person, that person would be generous, beautiful, elderly, but with a flair. A human being that has certain propensities for quarrelling, filled with imagination and with appetite for the new and with respect for the old - somebody who takes good care of things and of people.
– Connie Nielsen
Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination.
– Judy Blume
I've studied a technique called the Sanford Miesner technique, that teaches you how to focus. It's mainly about daydreaming. And the technique's really about imaginary circumstances. Using your imagination to sort of daydream about stuff. It makes you emotional in a scene.
– Sam Rockwell
I've never taken any issue off the table for lack of suitability. Only for lack of imagination.
– Garry Trudeau
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.
– James Van Der Beek
I've got quite a vivid imagination and I'm easily overwhelmed by sensations and things that are beautiful or scary. I don't think I've ever seen a ghost - I think I'm probably haunted by my own ghosts than real ones.
– Florence Welch
I've done a lot of bad things. Use your imagination.
– Katy Perry
I've been working on the soprano saxophone for 40 years, and the possibilities are astounding. It's up to you, the only limit is the imagination.
– Steve Lacy
I've been acting my whole life. I have this huge imagination! I'm a dancer and my mom's a dance teacher, and I was always performing and entertaining people. I'd go to see live theatre or a movie, and I'd become the main character for a few days afterwards. I loved being somebody new for a temporary amount of time.
– Natasha Calis
I've always had an active imagination.
– Rickie Lee Jones
I've always felt that what I have going for me is not my imagination, because everyone has an imagination. What I have is a relentlessly controlled imagination. What looks like wild invention is actually quite carefully calculated.
– Terry Pratchett
I'm only interested in fiction that in some way or other voices the very imagination which is conceiving it.
– John C. Hawkes
I'm not claiming that football is the nation's salvation in this area, but it's one of them, one little thing that apparently has captured the imagination of a large sector of our society. But when football can't be a relatively pure outlet, a fun thing, then it hurts itself.
– Pete Rozelle
I'm not a passive person by any stretch of the imagination.
– Courteney Cox
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
I'm kind of surprised that so many of those other books were almost exactly like mine. They even follow the form. There were some books that even copied the stamp. It shows so little imagination.
– Don Novello
I'm an emotional sort of person in general and I have a vivid imagination, so I feel the whole spectrum of emotion strongly when I write.
– Erin Morgenstern
I'm a light sleeper. I've never been one of those people who can put their head down and suddenly everything disappears. Nighttime is the time I get most scared, anxious or worried. In those darker moments before waking or sleeping is when I feel most, I don't know, I can turn on myself, and my imagination can take me dark places.
– Florence Welch
I'm a better coach now than when I joined Celtic. The longer you stay in any job, the better you become. If you lose your drive, your enthusiasm, your imagination, that experience is no good.
– Gordon Strachan
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
I'd love to play more challenging roles, characters that would stretch my comfort zone and imagination.
– Isabelle Fuhrman
I write from my imagination, not from what I've read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about.
– Dirk Benedict
I wouldn't say that I've had a tough life by any stretch of the imagination.
– Duncan Sheik
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.
– Amy Tan
I was raised not to be afraid to show emotion or imagination.
– Javier Bardem
I was brought up in a very open, rural countryside in the middle of nowhere. There were no cell phones. If your lights went out, you were lit by candlelight for a good four days before they can get to you. And so, my imagination was crazy.
– Juno Temple
I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.
– Adrien Brody
I want to kick-start your imagination and let you discover the places it can take you.
– Terry Brooks
I used to lie in bed in my flat and imagine what would happen if there was a zombie attack.
– Simon Pegg
I used my imagination to make the grass whatever color I wanted it to be.
– Whoopi Goldberg
I use a lot of film images, analogies, and imagination.
– Carlos Fuentes
I try to decorate my imagination as much as I can.
– Franz Schubert
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.
– James Broughton
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
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.
– Malcolm McDowell
I think my securities far outweigh my insecurities. I am not nearly as afraid of myself and my imagination as I used to be.
– Billy Connolly
I think it's fun to play with worlds that you can add a lot of your own imagination to. With 'True Blood,' you're not limited by anything, there are just leaps and bounds of the imagination you can take with these characters.
– Deborah Ann Woll
I think if you're a competent actor with a good imagination, and if it's on the page, it makes your job a lot easier.
– Miguel Ferrer
I think I'm an actor because I have very strong imagination and empathy. I never studied acting, but those two qualities are exactly the qualities that make for an activist.
– Susan Sarandon
I surrendered to a world of my imagination, reenacting all those wonderful tales my father would read aloud to me. I became a very active reader, especially history and Shakespeare.
– Andrew Wyeth
I suppose I'm proudest of my novels for what's imagined in them. I think the world of my imagination is a richer and more interesting place than my personal biography.
– John Irving
I suffer from the delusion that every product of my imagination is not only possible, but always on the cusp of becoming real.
– Sean Parker
I still have a photo on my wall of the greatest idol I will ever have in my life, and it's myself at eight. Because that's when the forces of imagination have the same value as the real world, when they're an instrument of survival: when my mother disappeared, and I imagined a mother. That was me at my best.
– Henning Mankell
I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator.
– Joe Rogan
I never had the financial means that the media said I had. I laugh when I hear the amounts, $400 million, $800 million. Where do they get this imagination?
– Jean Claude Duvalier
I mean, the most important thing to me is imagination.
– Rob Walton
I mean, it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, 'I've got this great game of pretend,' and you play... As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish - it is weird but it's wonderful.
– Max Irons
I loved the world of imagination.
– R. A. Salvatore
I love theatrics and have a huge imagination: Why would I want to sit onstage and sing a bunch of ballads back-to-back?
– Christina Aguilera
I love the paranormal, because there, every genre I write can become one beacon for my imagination.
– Leslie Banks
I love sci-fi because it leads in the imagination, and I always say it has the most intelligent fans in the world.
– Robert Carlyle
I love our shared island, our shared Ireland and its core decency. I love it for its imagination and its celebration of the endless possibilities for our people.
– Michael D. Higgins
I love costumes. I love getting dressed up because it really helps my imagination make the leap to believe that I am who I say I am.
– Alessandro Nivola
I look back into past history, the stored experiences or products of the imagination. I look no further forward than the evening.
– Jerzy Kosinski
I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.
– Sam Raimi
I like photographs which leave something to the imagination.
– Fay Godwin
I know how fiction matters to me, because if I want to express myself, I have to make up a story. Some people call it imagination. To me, it's not imagination. It's just a way of watching.
– Haruki Murakami
I hope that I'm sexy in a different kind of way than I think that a lot of girls are right now. I think a lot of girls in the public eye, especially musical artists, are just kind of objectified a little bit and wearing super-skimpy outfits and leaving nothing to the imagination.
– Emmy Rossum
I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
– S. E. Hinton
I have learned the art of filling in your lines with your visuals and your movies and your imagination.
– Daphne Zuniga
I have enough love to last me a lifetime! Thank God I'll never lose my imagination and my passion. That's really what it is. I'm still passionate about what I do.
– Teena Marie
I have deliberately left Sylvester and Julia's appearances to the reader's imagination.
– Mary Wesley
I have been afraid all my life that I am going to die. All my life it has been stuffed in my imagination.
– Patty Duke
I have an imagination because my life is so boring that my imagination lets me get off the reality of what's going on.
– Dave Attell
I have a very vivid imagination.
– Janice Dickinson
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
I had been a reporter for 15 years when I set out to write my first novel. I knew how to research an article or profile a subject - skills that I assumed would be useless when it came to fiction. It was from my imagination that the characters in my story would emerge.
– Amy Waldman
I had a pretty sexual imagination for a kid.
– Janet Jackson
I had a good imagination and I still have one a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.
– Laura Linney
I guess what I've learned is that there are no boundaries when it comes to imagination. It's limitless.
– Cliff Martinez
I guess something that I've noticed from American acts who had success in touring is more of an explanation as to their music. Which is I think quite funny. I think British acts might like to leave more to the imagination - maybe a bit more obscure perhaps - a bit more shy.
– Ben Lovett
I guess I'm a very keen observer, and I'd like to think I have a good imagination.
– Eric Bana
I grew up in the '80s where there's a lot of these kind of post-apocalyptic, post-comet, post-whatever it was, so that always captured my imagination a lot as a little kid, that idea of getting access to secret places and being able to roam around where you're not supposed to.
– Gillian Flynn
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
I feel that directors at times are like the janitors on the set. I am the secretary, I am the organizer, I am the maid, and I ask if they have eaten or rested. The best things are always out of your control. It's those moments that surpass the imagination that are thrilling.
– Jane Campion
I feel like I'm a much better person when I'm developing my imagination and my innocence and my vulnerability. I like that version of me better than the version where I'm just working on my analytical mind.
– Brit Marling
I enjoy working on a movie that lets your imagination run wild, it's great to be a part of and watch.
– Chris Hemsworth
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.
– Steven Patrick Morrissey
I don't want to discredit people's individuality, but I think people are pretty much the same. People are very similar. If you have a good enough imagination then you can feel things that you personally have never done before. That's acting.
– Kristen Stewart
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.
– Rachel Zoe
I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.
– J. G. Ballard
I don't necessarily start with the beginning of the book. I just start with the part of the story that's most vivid in my imagination and work forward and backward from there.
– Beverly Cleary
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.
– Mark Ruffalo
I don't know if Jim was a major part of that or not. He is one of a small group of real storytellers. He has enormous imagination and ability to write. I'm glad he's coming back. It's going to be good for the show.
– Matthew Ashford
I don't actually like explaining the meanings of my songs, because I think people can take away more from it if they use their imagination.
– Reeve Carney
I do as much comedy as I possibly can, but I'm basically limited by the imagination of the secretaries who make the decisions.
– Rufus Sewell