Imagination Quotes

The way that a handful of corporations in Los Angeles dictate how our stories are told creates a real poverty of imagination and it's a big problem.
Alex Cox

Real, Problem, Big

He brought imagination to the story of the Creation.
Harvey Keitel

Story, Creation, Brought

Woman is the sun, an extraordinary creature, one that makes the imagination gallop.
Marcello Mastroianni

Woman, Sun, Makes

It's a great excuse and luxury, having a job and blaming it for your inability to do your own art. When you don't have to work, you are left with the horror of facing your own lack of imagination and your own emptiness. A devastating possibility when finally time is your own.
Julian Schnabel

Work, Time, Great

I ask questions. I watch the world. And what I have discovered is that the parts of my fiction that people most tell me are 'unbelievable' are those that are most closely based on the real, those least diluted by my imagination.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Real, Tell, Ask

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

Hope, Sexy, Nothing

The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.
James A. Michener

Great, Experience, Write

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

Creativity, Kids, Cooking

Life is not so bad if you have plenty of luck, a good physique, and not too much imagination.
Christopher Isherwood

Life, Good, Bad

War, except in self-defense, is a failure of moral imagination.
Bill Moyers

War, Failure, Moral

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination.
Daniel Bell

Art, Technology, Human

Well, I think that - I think leadership's always been about two main things: imagination and courage.
Paul Keating

Leadership, Courage, Two

Much that we read of Russia is imagination and desire only.
Agnes Smedley

Desire, Read, Russia

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

Fake, Wish, Here

The moment of inspiration can come from memory, or language, or the imagination, or experience - anything that makes an impression forcibly enough for language to form.
Carol Ann Duffy

Experience, Enough, Moment

Well, the fact is that one imagination is critically important, and if you have had your imagination stimulated by what is basically a variety of subjects, you are much more amenable to accepting, to understanding and interacting with the realities of the world.
Ashley Judd

Important, Fact, Accepting

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

Writing, Play, Problems

Then I decided to draw from and on my own imagination, and everything came out perfect.
Jack Prelutsky

Perfect, Decided, Draw

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

Leadership, Time, Free

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.
Richard Le Gallienne

Beauty, Truth, Through

I loved the world of imagination.
R. A. Salvatore

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

Great, Hero, Night

A disaster where marble has been substituted for imagination.
Ada Louise Huxtable

Disaster, Marble

On 'Into The Wild' I spent months risking my life and on 'Speed Racer' I spent 60 days acting in front of a green screen. No danger to my physical self, but I sure had to use my imagination.
Emile Hirsch

Life, Self, Acting

That neither our thoughts, nor passions, nor ideas formed by the imagination, exist without the mind, is what every body will allow.
George Berkeley

Mind, Thoughts, Body

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